NYU’s ITP

Musican | Monotract

New York, New York USA

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After receiving her B.A. in English from Florida International University, she moved to New York to study at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio. As a choreographer, Garcia has been recognized with commissions and grants from the State of Florida, Miami Light Project and Tigertail Productions. She has performed at venues throughout the US and abroad in Japan, including New York venues such as Haswellediger Gallery, Dixon Place, Greene Naftali Gallery, Tonic, and Exit Art Gallery. She has also worked with Jean Marie Leary and Nancy Meehan, and shown her work as part of the AUNTS series, Movement Research Festival, and Movement Research at the Judson Church “About Town” series.

Nancy performing at Dance Theater Workshop.
“This was a duet I made for me and Jessie Gold, called localstwang. We toured it through San Francisco and performed in various venues in NYC.”

Currently, she’s working with choreographer Felicia Ballos and on her own new multimedia dance piece for five dancers and three rooms, to premiere in June 2007 at Greene Naftali Gallery. Her band “Monotract” also has a record out now on Load Records called “trueno oscuro.” Performing, recording and composing sound/music with Monotract since 1998, she has also collaborated as a solo musician with musicians such as Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core) and Aida Ruilova.

As a graduate student pursuing a Masters degree at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), she’s been exploring the practical, innovative and creative uses of technology in the arts, including interactive movement and sound experiments (using microcontrollers and sensors), video, 3-D modeling (Maya software), and critical theory of site-specificity and spatiality. Via an internship facilitated by photographer/video artist Clifford Ross, her studies with video became experiments in dance for a video camera that captures and displays 360 degrees of field of vision. Part of a five-person internship team, she helped to create a live interactive performance and dance for camera prototype. The results of these 360 degree camera experiments might be shown as part of ITP’s Spring Show (5/8-5/9/07). Stay tuned!