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In 2009, Triskelion Arts received its seventh Outer/Space grant! Outer/Space is a program of Dance Theater Workshop and is supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Council.
In summer 2007, Triskelion once again partnered with The Field for a 5th consecutive year in dedicating 30 hours of free rehearsal space to one of The Field's space grant recipients.
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Recent Events at Triskelion and beyond
Trio Dance Collective
premiered two evenings of new work
June 25-26, 2010
Triskelion Arts presented
Nu Dance Theater
and
Ms. Skovby
on June 3-5, 2010.
Nu Dance Theater explored theatrical and visual ideas using the body as a tool to unveil human emotion. Much like a dream, reality and imagination blended, generating powerful moving images and a poetic unity between the experience of life and its performance.
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Triskelion Arts presented
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's
Geegahdongpeoria
on May 13-15, 20-23, 2010
as part of The
Comedy in Dance Festival
Inspired by the medieval dancing plagues, Geegahdongpeoria follows a landmark day-in-the-life of a fictitious people compelled to dance. This performance conjures up one of humanity’s lost tribes…lost with good reason. This tiny nation of likeable human dodo birds swaggers blithely through fable and folk dance, while tromping over atavistic technologies and cornball Satan-worship.
Performed by Abby Bender, Jonathan Ciccarelli, Sara K. Edwards, Katie Federowicz, Rebecca Frank, Charles Gushue, Sarah Lannon, Lyz Merida, Reshma Patel, Brandon Polanco, Natasha Ross, Hanlon Smith-Dorsey and Charmian Wells
Story and choreography by Abby Bender
Script by Jeremy Wilson
Songs and video by Derek Breen, Jeremy Wilson, and Rebecca Frank
Triskelion's first annual Comedy in Dance festival
The festival ran for a full ten days and included work with a comic bent by :
Phil Lanzetta/Vantage, The LeRoy Sisters, Amy Larimer, alexanDance Performance, cakeface, The Donovan Ensemble, Rhea Daniels, SPINE, an artist-led production company, Alisa Fendley Dance, Janessa Olsen/equal and opposite, Two-Hander,
New Extreme Dance Explosions Awesomes, Billy Schultz, Cirque This, Jacobs Campbell Dance, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, Leanne Schmidt and Company, Ashley Meeder Movement Project, and
Adrian Jevicki/Movementpants Dance
The Spaces Between premiered on May 17-18, 2010.
A first layer sharing of collaborative dance theatre explored the way we connect and disconnect when in close proximity to each other. The show featured the work of Sabrina Jacob and Anna Haas, in collaboration with the performers: Marjorie Failoni, Anna Haas, Tymisha Harris, Sabrina Jacob, Brianna Langan, Ashley Meeder, Megan Morrison, Peter Musante, Sarah Sadie Newett, Justin Perez, Meagan Vincent
Triskelion Arts presented
Jeff-n-Buttons' Neon Lights
A vaudeville variety show hosted by the dangerous minds of Jeff Seal and Chris Manley. Stand-up, improv, burlesque, circus, sketch, fart jokes...you name it, they bring it to you with a rose in their teeth. Each month, from December-May of 2010, audiences experienced a different comic abyss from the best of the city's talent pool.
Triskelion Arts presented
Cirque This’
Viva la Evolution!
April 15-April 18 and April 22- April 24, 2010.
Cirque This’ last show gave audiences a unique, if not warped, look at the past, present, and future of the strange and ever-changing species we are and those that we encounter through clowning, puppetry, manipulation and various forms of tomfoolery.
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Triskelion Arts presented
Leanne Schmidt and Company
Today, The Sky is Falling
April 9-11, 2010. 8pm
Today, The Sky is Falling, Leanne Schmidt and Company’s fourth evening-length work, offered a humorous, peculiar and unusual demonstration of bravery as three individual’s put themselves on the line to illustrate what makes their “sky fall”. Poking fun at life’s mini-dramas, this work is composed through a collection of personal tragedies, combing physicality and comedy improvisation techniques. The result is a journey that is rich in metaphor, evokes empathy and is supremely honest.
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Kathy Wasik presented
Zero
April 1-3, 2010 Kathy Wasik explored the mathematical concept of zero as a personal, emotional, and sometimes neurotic journey. Zero combined absurd humor with a spirit of abandon to touch upon some of the mathematical, physical, and spiritual aspects of the number. The evening also featured Learning to Fall, a solo that charted the ebb and flow of personal growth. Performed by Cara Liguori and Kathy Wasik.
Triskelion Arts & Steelhead Entertainment presented alexanDance Performance
(Xan Burley + Alex Springer)
A Veritable Smorgasbord
...the goose was right March 25-27, 2010.
A Veritable Smorgasbord, included dance, film, and musical, artistic, and baked installations. The show saw the premiere of Seven for Seven, a haunting piece featuring a roof-sized tarp and seven ghostly performers and the debut of Spilt, a delectably droll duet dedicated to the things that go unsaid in a relationship. Among others is the newest version of Pair, a quartet of women uniting through the experience of consumption. A Veritable Smorgasbord was a smattering of old and new, heavy and light, sweet and tangy, and beyond.
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Triskelion Arts proudly presented
white road Dance Media
Deer, To Me
March 18-21, 2010.
Eight dancers, multiple vintage and digital video projectors and an original score wove together a fantastical landscape of capture and escape, of animal instincts and human desires, and surreal situations.
www. whiteroaddancemedia.com for more information
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
AbaRukas presented
One Night Stand
March 12-14, 2010AbaRukas and Caliince Dance Company performed new and past works, choreographed by Yoshito Sakuraba and Pauline Legras. Irregular and unplanned experimental encounters between individual movements created their own stories, which can be fragile or vague, or just plain stupid. Performed by Jenny Chapko, Pauline Legras, Holly Colino, Fanny Gombert.
Wobble Dance Company presented
2 for 1
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
With live music by The Possessions,
Adam Shenk, and Sea of Trees
RETTOCAMME returned to Triskelion Arts for the second annual
February Project
Friday and Saturday February 26-27, 2010
The February Project is an ongoing, collaborative, process-based performance event that brings together dancers, photographers, musicians, and audiences to witness the evolution of movement and sound. With choreography/concept by Emma Cotter, musical direction by Jordan McLean, and wearable art by Ryan Roth.
For more info visit www.rettocamme.com
Triskelion Arts presented
Eleanor Smith & Molly Lieber's
magic show
February 18-20, 2010
The evocative pair returned to Triskelion to curate a new show centered on the exploration of trust. Featured new work by emerging talents Molly, Lieber, Ani Javian, Nora Petroliunas, and Miriam Wolf delivered kinetic and quirky choreography.
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Triskelion Arts presented
Cabaret Terrarium
February 5-7 and 12-14, 2010
Harrington & Kauffman, the guys who brought you "Hotel California" and "Nharcolepsy," came back with "Cabaret Terrarium," an epic comedy of amnesia and redemption featuring the return of Belgian cabaret singer Gustave and his associate Nhar. They recounted the thrilling tale of how Gustave was discovered in a block of ice at the North Pole by Norwegian archeologists, and how Nhar joined Gustave to travel the globe in search of Gustave's family, and of clues to his shadowy past. With guest choreography by Abby Bender.
"Richard Harrington and Chris Kauffman raise the level of comedy to a high art." -- The Globe and Mail, Toronto "Masters of deadpan humor." -- The Seattle Times. "You will either find this show insanely brilliant or brilliantly insane, and it's probably both. And silly, too." -- Edmonton Journal
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Refractions Dance Collective
presented
SIX
January 29-31, 2010
Refractions Dance Collective performed an athletic and lively evening of dance. Choreographers Sarah Donnelly, Charmy Wells, and Rachel Buschert will each be contributing their own flavors along with guest artists Isis Movement and Johari Mayfield.
Alexis Macnab/Infinite Coast presented
Shipwreck
December 10-13, 2009
A dance/shadow spectacle inspired by the tragic legend of Tristan & Iseult
The show featured movement, shadow-puppets, and original music by Scavenger Quartet.
“and many mooooore...”
Triskelion’s auction benefit extravaganza took place on December 5th, 2009. It was a grand success in raising funds to help offset our operating expenses. The evening included hilarious performances, games, endless food, beer and wine and hoots galore! Featuring dance by Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre, alexanDance, Abby and Andrew, clowning around by Cirque This and Jeff & Buttons in Neon Lights, and the musical stylings of The Hazzards and Smokin’ Billy Slater!
Thanks to all who attended!
Marisa Arriaga Dance presented
Mirrors Tilted Wildly
November 20-21, 2009
A modern showcase of movement inspired by sudden interruptions in flow, in which abstracted narratives form and reform out of fragments and threads. Brooklyn-based choreographer Marisa Arriaga presented three pieces with original scores by local experimental musicians The Do0rmice: "3 Days We," a whimsical time-ticking duet in collaboration with choreographer Sheri Wells; the debut of "Stains in my Mind," a solo work in monochromatics with costume and set installation by Laura Sheedy and a duet, also debuting, “6-Foot Whispers,” a two-fold twist with sister and choreographer Lindsay Arriaga-Rolfert. This unconventional, shared evening spanned local to international, including works by artists Nancy Hughes, Meredith Blouin of dance project Madame Spaghetti Arms, Ching-I Chang, Zita Nyarady, and Sarah Beth Oppenheim and Nora Petroliunas creative masterminds of Pocket Engine.
Triskelion Arts presented
Jessica Gaynor Dance
Theory of Games
November 13-15, 2009.
A new evening length piece inspired by puzzles. Dancers moved into and out of formation to J.S. Bach's Musical Offering, creating a fluid and shifting sense of unity and disjunction. Choreographed by Jessica Gaynor. Performed by Matt Adams, Jonathan Ciccarelli, Ashlie Kittleson, Jordan Risdon, Julie Sabangan, and Angel Vasquez
This show was included in the L Magazine's "20 Must-See Fall Art Events!"
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Triskelion Arts presented
Kill Me Loudly:
A Clown Noir
September 16-20, 2009 and September 23-25.
A Fools ON Fire production Starring Deanna Fleysher, Jeff Seal, Chris Manley and Chris Roberti and directed by Eric Davis. Created by the company. A show about temptation, betrayal and murder. Done by Clowns.
Director Eric Davis (Red Bastard, Cirque du Soleil, Bouffon Glass Menajoree) wielded his magic sword to create a world where there was not one, but two femme-fetales, neither of whom were women, and the main Dick didn’t even have one. The cast broke their hearts and bared their souls to give audiences the film noir they deserved. A clown noir. Very good intentions. Very bad clowns.
Visit their website! www.foolsonfire.org
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Triskelion Arts and Cirque This presented
CIRQUE OFF 2009!
September 4-6, 2009
Live On Stage! Circus acts galore! From the hilarious to the beautiful to the bizarre and all the way back again, and set to the amazing live music of Smokin Billy Slater and the Hot Stocks, the Cirque Off festival kicked off its third year, showcasing the talents of some of the finest emerging and established circus artists from New York and Beyond. Cirque This set the stage, while an amazing roster of unusual and spectacular guests dazzled audiences like they've never been dazzled before! Beautiful! Hilarious! Amazing! Shocking! (...and everything in between) Artists included: Brett Alters and Spencer Novich, Hula Hoop Harlot Melissa-Anne, Tanya Solomon, Ten Directions, Aerial Abby, Jeff and Buttons, John Leo, Mark Gindick, New Excitement, RAJ, Rhada and Jahnavi, Rocco the Acrobat, Ambrose Martos, The Amazing Amy, Beth Elkins, The Hey Ya Brothers, Kinetic Architecture, Matt Henry, Trained Human, MEGXAQCAS, Merrymakers, and Sean Blue
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Triskelion Arts presented it's first
bi-annual
"Collaborations in Dance"
Festival
a new performance series, which premiered August 20-23, 2009.
Each evening featured different work by an array of select artists.
Curated by Abby Bender and Andrew Dickerson, this event presented pieces by choreographers and directors who work in close collaboration with their dancers and actors or with filmakers, musicians, designers etc... The festival was a great success and Triskelion will be hosting more events like this in the future!
The debut festival featured artists and companies including
Jessica Gaynor Dance, Julie Fotheringham, Movementpants Dance, Megan Mazarick, Ten Directions, Bryon Carr Dance and Mixed Media, Cristina Jesurun, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama, Alexis Karl, Glitterati, Julie Turner & Emily Maurer: Make/Pause, Xan Burley & Alex Springer, Marija Krtolica with Sara Zimmerman, JaxDance, a + s works, SKL Dancers, and Zoe Scheiber
This new program aims to support and present innovative work in the spirit of collaboration and includes promotion, full tech and lighting design for chosen pieces up to 35 minutes in length.
This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
on left: a + s danceworks, on right: Jessica Gaynor Dance
work by Abby Bender at B.O.S. '09
Built on Stilts
The on Martha's Vineyard Dance Festival and Triskelion's sister-project, took place August 12-17, 2009. Over 40 groups from the island and visiting artists from NYC, Boston, CT and more, performed over the week to packed houses as the festival celebrated its 13th year.
Visit builtonstilts.org for more info!
On August 9, 2009, Midnight Hotel presented
a sneak NYC preview performance of
THE JOURNEY IS NOT DONE QUICKLY
created by Kenneth Lang
A physical theater experience that explores saying goodbye to past limitations for the promise of a dream. Based on a Russian folktale, a tsar’s son sets out on a quest and is overpowered by a wolf and his own temptations. The pain and humor along the way is narrated by your guide, an itinerant purveyor of faith, remedies and diversions.The show also opened at the Victoria Fringe Festival 8/27 – 9/6 and continuinued at the Vancouver Fringe Festival 9/9 – 9/20.
Triskelion Arts presented
Outre Island
on June 19-20, 2009.
Outré Island is Christopher Rozzi’s comedy about a fictional civilization and its unusual citizens.
Through a variety of theatrical devices, the audience learns of Outré Island’s rich culture and ridiculous history. Perhaps you've seen some of the citizens around? Fluff? Shakespeare? Robin Merry? With its absurd sensibility and microcosm setting, Outré Island is a combination of Monty Python, Prairie Home Companion, and the Simpsons.
Characters from Outré Island have been featured at “The Hot-tub Variety Show,” Comix, and on Direct TV. Outré Island has been performed at Ars Nova, the P.I.T., Collective Unconscious, Kraine theater, Red Room, Parkside Lounge, and many other venues in NYC.
277danceproject presented
Another Day and I forget
June 12-14, 2009
Visit www.277danceproject.com
The show also featured a live music intermission by "Burlap to Cashmere"
sleepdance presented
Music for Motion, Air and Strings
Thursday, May 28th-Sunday, May 31st, 2009.
Choreographed by Stephanie Sleeper
in collaboration with:
Stephanie Griffin
Angela Helland
Jen Kosky
Chris Mannigan
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's
Turkey (a dramatization)
premiered May 7-10 & 14-16, 2009.
Performed by Katie Federowicz, Natasha Ross, Lyz Merida, Jonathan Ciccarelli, Marisa Gruneberg, Rebecca Frank, Bathsheba Squires, Tradon Turner, Sara K. Edwards, Reshma Patel, Marissa Metelica, Sarah Lannon, Janessa Olsen, Michael Fritz and Abby Bender
Script by Jeremy Wilson, Abby Bender, and Michael Fritz
Video by Becca Frank and Will Carlough with guest appearance by Anne Harris
Original Song by Eli Orling.
Turkey is the quirkiest show about “the hardest thing you’ll ever do,” a playful and powerful performance about the agony, monotony and unintended comedy that accompanied Bender's attempt of quitting smoking. Featuring choreography with a cast of fifteen as well as video, music, and theatre, Turkey (a dramatization) locks horns with the demons of nicotine addiction, those self-proclaimed experts with all the answers on fighting it and the emotional rollercoaster that becomes the path to giving up that bad thing you love to death. This farcical dance-theatre uses the metaphors of space travel and the hyper-empowered vocabulary of self-help to usher the audience through conflicted feelings of rootlessness and self-determination. The piece is brought to pitch-perfect life through subdued color, a smoke-filled stage, ashen costumes and a sparse but symbolic set of ladders and ropes.
Click here for some audience responses
Dining with Cirque This!
premiered to packed houses April 16-18 and 23-25, 2009.
This brand new show featured chirping chickens, dastardly diseases, and flying feasts! Cirque This took audiences on a journey through the food industry, from farm to face then down the gullet and into the world of inexplicable innards! All to the live music of Elephants on Parade!
"Dining with Cirque This" was performed and created by: Lydia Bell, Abby Bender, Lauri Berritta, Andy Dickerson, Sara K. Edwards, Marisa Gruneberg, Stefanie Johnson, Angie Lee, Jason Leinwand, and Renate Lunn
Directed by Andy Dickerson and Jason Leinwand
Musical Direction by Ethan Leinwand
Art Director by Jason Leinwand
Lighting Design by Andy Dickerson
Leanne Schmidt and Company's
"Short Stories"
premiered in full April 2-4, 2009.
Short Stories, Leanne Schmidt and Company’s third evening-length work, offered three short tales about an individual’s quest to sort through their daunting insecurities. Each “short story” was a reflection on the thrill, terror, and humor associated with being human, neurotic and vulnerable. Whether it was the story of the lonely outcast, the strong silent type, or the control freak, each narrative was accessible in subject matter and combined athletic dance vocabulary, theater, and improvisational text to present raw and real interactions from the performers and audience. Material used in the work was inspired by the company’s one month residency with the creative writing workshop at the New York Public Library’s Harlem and Aguilar Centers for Reading a Writing, a program which helps adults who have difficulties reading and writing to actualize their goals and improve their communication skills in a student-centered environment.
Triskelion Arts presented
Launch Movement Experiment & The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine
in four world premiers of raw, explosive, and intricately crafted dance with live music by Fade Kainer/INSWARM on March 26-28, 2009.
Rachel Mckinstry and Kendra Portier's things that happened moved from memory into the present with charged physicality and waves of emotion. Anne Zuerner's arteries and drywall took on many forms of conflict, painting a dark picture of human interaction, with dancers pressing, peeling, sliding and throwing. Liz Riga's last tuesday painted a picture of a woman lost in her thoughts, and Zuerner performed pool cell, a haunting interactive duet between light and movement.
**This project was sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
Triskelion Arts presented
white road Dance Media in
I Want My 90s!!!
March 19-22, 2009.
A new dance piece for seven created by Marisa Gruneberg, performed by white road Dance Media! Performed by Megan Hillman Bascom, Julie Bordonaro, Jonathan M. Ciccarelli, Jessica S. Finn, Hanna Kinnunen, Miranda Lyon, and Julie Turner
With special guests Abby Bender, Gabriella Barnstone, and Dana Reed
Lighting Design by Andy Dickerson
Sound by Patrik Phalen
Set artwork by Andrew Lukovsky
Victory to Others presented
Trace Decay
March 12-14, 2009
Trace Decay is an experimental collaboration between choreographer Sasha Welsh and video artist Kerrie Welsh. Working closely with composer J Why and dancers Laurie Berg, Cindy Chung Camins and Cynthia St. Clair, they investigated processes of memory (both cultural and personal) and the experience of the passage of time.
The development of Trace Decay was supported by The Swarthmore Project, a residency program for choreographers and dancers sponsored by Swarthmore College, RAW Material at Dance New Amsterdam, and Body Blend at Dixon Place.
www.victory2others.com
http://www.facebook.com/people/Sasha-Welsh/1080064220
Zephyr Dance presented
Just Left of Remote
March 5, 6 & 7, 2009
How I Won the Campbell Prize,
a new play by Ben Lewis and directed by Lee Sunday Evans premiered to packed houses February 26-28, 2009. Performed by Matt Dickson, Anna Greenberg, Reilly Hadden, Leah Karpel and Gabe Levey with design by Kate Foster, Beth Goldenberg and Nick Houfek
TWO EVENING PERFORMANCES OF EVENT SCORES WRITTEN BY FLUXUS PIONEER GEORGE BRECHT took place on February 20 & 21, 2009. The show will presented over 30 historic performance scripts over the course of two nights written by George Brecht between 1959 and 1966 - many rarely seen in the United States. Brecht introduced the concept of the event score: a performance script that is usually only a few lines long consisting of descriptions of actions to be performed rather than dialogue. Media contact and further info: Perry Garvin at info@fluxconcert.org or by visiting
www.fluxconcert.org
The February Project February 6 & 7, 2009.
Concept by Emma Cotter, choreography in collaboration with dancers Marcia Brooks, Aaron Graham, Elisa LaBelle. With music by Jordan McLean. and wearable art by Ryan Roth.
slipperyfish dance,"Out of Hour", work by Kellie Ann Lynch and Ariel Cohen with guest performers Jennifer Prolins, Lani Nahele, and Catherine Musinsky came to Triskelion Jan 9-10, 2009.
"When in Rome..." Triskelion's annual famous benefit performance and auction took place on Dec. 13, 2008..
A pagan orgy of food, wine, sacrafice and entertainment
to benefit Triskelion Arts.
The night featured performances and appearances by The Hazzards, robbinschilds, Cirque This, Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre, From the desk of Sarah Seely, Millie Vanilla and Chris Rozzi. Both the live and silent auctions, emceed by Andy Dickerson and Abby Bender featured amazing stuff. Thanks to everyone who was involved and attended!
From the desk of Sarah Seely presented
How to Disappear Completely
December 4-6, 2008.
With choreography by Sarah Seely, video by Nicky Enright, music by Patrik Phalen and performance by Amy Baumgarten, Jonathan Ciccarelli, Brian Maloney, Adam MacLean, Flanagan Smith, Moira Stone and Julie Turner
Triskelion Arts presented
Jessica Gaynor Dance
Enlarged to show Texture,an evening of new dance in collaboration with the dancers: Sundara Duncan, Ashlie Kittleson, Renee Kurz, Blythe Proffitt, Angel Vasquez on November 13-15, 2008.
Enlarged to show Texture created a visual, visceral and aural landscape through music, props and movement that was forever changing, creating layers upon layers of pattern and texture.
Talk to Me was presented by DANIELA HOFF DANCE COMPANY with guest choreographer Daman Harun
November 7-9, 2008.
Daniela Hoff explored in her choreography the challenges of connecting and communicating, inspired by the book, the Zahir, by Paulo Coelho. Guest choreographer Daman Harun investigated human relationships. Performers included Liza Austria, Preston Burger, Daman Harun, Daniela Hoff, Vincent McCloskey, Miranda Mikesh, Andrea Rossi, Heidi Turzyn and Mimi Yin with lighting design by Andy Dickerson.
The moment passed
I made it last
premiered Oct. 24 & 25. 8pm
Choreography by Courtney Cooke, Molly Lieber, Eleanor Smith in collaboration with Jamie Graham, Alessandra Larson, Rachel Warren, Megan Zander
Divide: A two-part dance equation was presented by Victoria Benzinger and Todd Henry & Wobble on October 11-12.
Tracy Eisenberg presented
back & forth
on October 9th and 10th, 2008.
THE VANGELINE THEATER and NUDANCETHEATER
Presented
" Nuit Blanche"
Created by Vangeline and Eva Perrotta
An evening of Butoh and contemporary Dance from France
Saturday, October 4th
“Captivating”
Claudia La Rocco, New York Times
"Poetry in Motion"
Hampton Fancher, writer of cult movie "Blade Runner" (New York, NY)
photo credit Brandon Jacobs- Mills Ryan Jensen.
The WPA (Williamsburg Performance Alliiance) hosted its third annual FREEfest! September 27-28.
2 straight days of free performance at Triskelion and other neighborhood venues! Click here for more information. Triskelion's awesome performers included: Deborah Karp, alexanDance, white road Dance Media, Jessica Gaynor Dance, NuDance Theater/Eva Perotta, Elizabeth Dishman/Coriolis Dance, Kristina Skovby, Jessica Gaynor Dance, Cirque This, Leanne Schmidt and Company, Peter Kyle Dance, Jonathan Ciccarelli & Dancers, and Sarah Seely
Cirque Off!
was presented by Cirque This at Triskelion September 5-7, 2008
Peformers included: New Excitement, Melissa Sanfiorenzo, Ambrose Martos, The Human Floor, Jared the Conjuror, Peter Daniel Straus, Joel Jeske, Chris Lueck and Michael Richter, Jeff Seal, Oddchild Uprising, Melissa Anne, the Hula Hoop Harlot, Chris Rozzi, and the Cirque This cast. See www.cirquethis.com/shows for more information
Photo by Jaxon White. copyright 2008. www.jaxonwhite.com
the Built on Stilts Dance Festival
Triskelion's sister-project on Martha's Vineyard, took place August 15-19 and 23-24, 2008. Over 40 groups from the island and visiting artists from NYC, Boston, CT and more, performed over the week to packed houses. Visit builtonstilts.org for more info!
SHBA Danceworks and XDrop Presented:
All We Have Left, an evening of dance and art on July 25, 2008. The evening included choreography from Sarah Holmes, Lily Cattaneo, Anya Porter, iN.D.dance/Nicole Durfee & Dancers, Project 423, and a photo exhibit from SeBiArt.
BRYAN HAYES & TINA CROLL / NEW DANCES IN PROGRESS
Bryan Hayes & Tina Croll presented an informal program of new dances and video on Saturday & Sunday, June 28th and 29th at Triskelion Arts. The program featured a new duet by Tina Croll & Bryan Hayes titled Little Impromptu, a structured theatrical improvisation to short pieces by Anton Webern. Ms. Croll also performed her solo Burning Lakeas well as Three Episodes (Question, Disturbance, Simplicity). Bryan Hayes and Alexis Steeves presented Hayes’ new duet Sky Wheel, a dance mandala of formal simplicity which gradually gains motoric propulsion and spatial complexity. The music was from works by John Adams and Amy Beach. Also included on the program was Doubles From Being There, a short dance video by Bryan Hayes made in collaboration with choreographer Rosalind Newman from her 2006 quartet Being There.
Launch Movement Experiment (Rachel McKinstry & Kendra Portier) and The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine (Anne Zuerner) paired up June 12-14, to present an evening of engaging experimental dance. Known for their unique movement styles and innovative dance making, the two companies showed latest creations. Ana Isabel Keilson joined the evening presenting her latest solo work.
for more info:
launchmovementexperiment.com
web.mac.com/aazuerner
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's Zerosum
a harmlessly interactive night of dance and gaming premiered May 30-June 1 and June 5-8. Conceived by Abby Bender and Jeremy Wilson with original music by Eli Orling. Costumes and sets by Emily Taradash and Abby Bender Zerosum was choreographed and performed by Abby Bender, Rebecca Bone**, Lyz Merida, Shelley Pinard, Natasha Ross, Rebecca Frank, Sarah Seely, Jonathan Ciccarelli, Katie Federowicz, Sara Edwards, Julia Peck, Justin Francavilla, Kate Kaminski, Katie O’Neill*, Reshma Patel, Ydhelca Perez, Bathsheba Squires, Tradon Turner, Marisa Gruneberg and Johnny De Arden
The Circus of Epic Disproportions was presented to packed houses May 2-4, and 9-11, 2008. Cirque This' best show yet, the performance featured Hula Hoop and ball juggling and acrobatics, wily animal antics, scientists, vermin, and, of course, a live band! May 9th's show included Art Farm’s Circus for A Fragile Planet.
Leanne Schmidt and Company presented
me and you,
a new work investigating subtleties in relationships, the intricate, simple, honest and humorous,
at Triskelion on April 10-12, 2008
Triskelion Arts presented "Anna" March 27-29, performed by white road Dance Media and created by Marisa Gruneberg
"Anna," a quartet for four women, worked with Leo Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina as a conceptual base. Set in the American 1950s, the piece followed the colorful and dynamic interweavings of four characters’ physical and psychological bodies. As the narrative abstracts and momentum unfolded, a provocative portrait of human desire and sacrifice emerged.
Jennifer Neff and Richard Olson presented
"Yes, Really!" March 6-7, 2008
WAXworks at Triskelion Arts
Since September 2006, Triskelion has hosted WAXworks in its theater. WAXworks is a non-curated, performance showcase designed to help artists advance their creative process by viewing their work through written criticism from the objective eyes of a live audience. WAXworks showcases take place at Triskelion once a month. For information and a downloadable application, visit www.wax205.com/waxworks.php;.
Since beginning its residency at Triskelion, WAXworks has produced work dozens of artists and companies. For complete listings visit www.wax205.com.
Coriolis Dance Inc. presented RIBS, to sold-out houses February 24-26, 2008: original modern dance works by Elizabeth Dishman, with Jennifer Sydor and Donnell Oakley/Ani Weinstein. Vibrant, quirky, vigorous, moving, delightful, silly…effervescent.
Collective Dance NY presented "Flux" on December 14th and 15th, 2007. The performance featured choreography by Becky Radway, Danica Kalemdaroglu, Rachel Fachner, Meghan McCoy, Morgan Murphey and Megan Morse Jans.
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An evening of dance, video and multi media works by Eva Perrotta/PowerPondusProjects/Kristina Skovby/Ana Gutierrez was presented on December 11, 2007.
Abby Bender, Andrew Dickerson and their immensely talented friends presented their annual almost famous benefit performance and live auction, "Rites of Passage" on Dec. 8th. It was an evening of unpredictable chutzpah benefitting Triskelion Arts. Over 130 people were in attendance and The Hazzards, Cousin Hubie, and Kate Elias & Ellen Smith gave stellar performances. Our notorious auction consisted of unbelievable stuff up for bid: unique services, high fashion, fine art photography & paintings, show tickets, excellent reads, vacation getaways, hot dates, and other treats beyond your wildest dreams! The night was emceed by Andrew Dickerson & Abby Bender. Thanks to all who attended and/or sent contributions!
Meg Hebert Dance presented REPEAT Friday, November 30th and Saturday, December 1st, an evening of new work by Meg Hebert Dance. Choreographed and created with the dancers and video artist Amanda Barrett. Performed by Carmen Epstein, Sara Murphy, Dana Prieto, Aaron Ramos, Christine Sampson. meghebertdance.org
Triskelion Arts proudly presented fivefour's Separation Anxiety: a non-clinical approach November 15-17, 2007. Choreographed & performed by fivefour/Cortney McGuire & Leah Nelson. Other performers included Ben Asriel, Kate Martel, Ali Ruszkowski, Rebecca Warner & Gali Wexler with original live music by Jeff Snyder
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's
GUTTERBALL
(a wilderness)
premiered in May, 2007 and was resurrected for Freefest in September and another full run in October, 2007.
Conceived and choreographed by Abby Bender in partership with the performers: Josie Carbone, Adam Davidson, Danielle DiCamillo,Sara Edwards, Katie Federowicz, Marcelle Hopkins, Kate Kaminski, Ken Lang, Lyz Merida, Mandana Mofidi, Christi Mueller, Janessa Olsen, Katie O'Neill, Reshma Patel, Julia Peck, Natasha Ross, Melissa SanFiorenzo, Bathsheba Squires, Emily Taradash, Tradon Turner, Pedro Jimenez and Tommy Wilkinson with collaborations on costumes with Emily Taradash, video with Akil Kraja and Loch Phillipps, sound with John McCloskey and sets with Paul Duffy. Lighting Design by Andrew Dickerson.
Click HERE for a review of the show!
Triskelion Arts proudly presented Jessica Gaynor Dance
Shifting Forward
New work and live music in collaboration with composer Quentin Tolimieri and the rock band Lady Lucille. Performers included, Karen Carbonell, Sundara Duncan, Charis Haines, Ashlie Kittleson, Renee Kurz, Blythe Proffitt, Jin Ju Song, and Angel Vasquez.
The NewWPA FreeFest celebrated its second year of neighborhoody loveTriskelion Arts & WAX, The Brick, Battle Ranch (formerly Studio 111) and Soundance teamed up to present 2 weekends of TOTALLY FREE performances! Triskelion presented Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's Gutterball, a wildnerness, on Sept. 29th. On September 30th, we showed stellar work by Ian Spencer Bell, Rachel McKinstry & Liz Riga/Launch Movement Experiment, Peter Kyle Dance, Anne Zuerner/The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine, Bryon Carr, Jessica Gaynor Dance, everything smaller, Jackie Moynahan, Johanna Morris, Courtney Miller, and Marisa Gruneberg/white road Dance Media. Thanks to all who were involved!
With a tip of the hat to the Works Progress Administration, The New WPA (Williamsburg Performance Alliance) announced itself and its festival in the fall of 2006. The New WPA is a network of artists, venues and arts organizations that formed in order to share resources and increase the visibility of the performing arts in Williamsburg. Audiences for The New WPA FreeFest will be encouraged to walk from space to space on any given performance over the course of 2 weekends September 22nd and 23rd and 29th and 30th.
CIRQUE OFF!
Cirque This presented an evening of amazing clowning, juggling, acrobatics and more performed with the live band The Minor Setbacks on September 8, 2007. The show featured performances by The Artfarm Traveling Circus, Cassandra, Happenstance, Jared's sideshow, Radhika, Jefff Seal, Xaq, Uncle Jake and members of the Cirque This! cast
Built on Stilts, The Martha's Vineyard Dance & Performance Festival, directed by Abby Bender, recently celebrated it's ELEVENTH anniversary with 8 days of performances in August, 2006. Attracting over 60 choreographers from near and far, the festival continues to gain momentum. All are welcome to participate! Visit www.builtonstilts.org for more info.
Bryce Dance presented “In the Arroyo.” With special guests; Choreographers Kathryn Dunkel, Hannah Naiman, and Alissa Wilson, Composer Juliet Case, and Musicians Keith Sanders (viola) and Megan Schubert (soprano) July 21 - 22, 2007 at Triskelion.
Wobble a.k.a. Noelle Finamore, Todd Henry and Heather Zemeck in collaboration with the performers, presented an evening of work at Triskelion June 27-30 and July 1, 2007.
Launch Movement Experiment performances by Liz Riga & Rachel McKinstry
&
Anne Zuerner/
The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine
premiered
June 14-16th, 2007
at Triskelion to packed houses.
Cirque This!'
Circus of Do's and Don'ts premiered at Triskelion April 26-28 & May 3-5, 2007. May 3rd's show featured special guests The Oddfellows Playhouse Traveling Circus Company and every night included Cirque This' new band, The Cirque El Jerks. The performances were packed with fun-filled circus action the way only Cirque This can present!
Grotesque Picturesque, dances by Miriam Hess was presented at Triskelion March 28th-31st, 2007.
With Eric Clothier, guest artist Leigh Atwell/Carolyn Cryer/Jennifer Sydor.
Leanne Schmidt and Company presented "Wonderland, a dreamy new work , on March 23rd and 24th, 2007.
Triskelion Arts was delighted to present the premiere of everything smaller's totally rocking full-length work, Building it Up and Breaking It Down. The piece was performed to a packed house every night of its run February 22nd-24th, 2007. Choreographed and danced by everything smaller: jessica jolly, david schmidt, and donnell turner with collaborator and guest artist, John Peery with original music by Michael Wall and story told by Julie Finefrock. For more information about the company, visit everythingsmaller.com.
i.e. RVLP Productions presented
The House of Yes
at Triskelion February 14-16, 2007.
Starring Cara Coleman, Ibby Cizmar, Colleen Divincentis, Matt Jacobs and Robert Palmer. Directed by Luke Mohatt. Written by Wendy MacLeod. Art Direction by Keith Girard.
Three live performances and one dance film choreographed individually by Eva Perrotta, Kristina Skovby, Laura Gerber and Maia Sorensen, (all graduating dancers/choreographers from the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance) were performed to a full house on January 26, 2007.
Triskelion's INSANE annual benefit performance and auction was held on December 9th, 2006. Over 150 guests were in attendance throughout the course of the evening.
Smoke and Mirrors certainly delivered its promise to stun, shock, and satisfy wiith stellar performances by Cirque This, everything smaller, Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre, JaxDance and New York's baddest two-girl ukelele band, The Hazzards, plus the musical stylings of Cousin Hubie.
The auction was emceed by Andrew Dickerson, resplendant in his tux and sequined codpiece as magician extraordinaire and a seriously hopped-up Abby Bender as his assistant (who is b.t.w. forever indebted to everyone who pulled this thing off!) The gorgeous team of robbinschilds carried on their famous tradition as showgirls for the auction offerings which featured amazing stuff such as vacation getaways, fine art, unique services and show tickets. All told, the benefit generated an unprecedented amount of binging, fun, entertaining humiliation and PROFIT! Thanks to the incredible group of donors, volunteers, performers and attendees who have made it possible for Triskelion to keep doing what it needs to do to serve artists. Bravo!
Collective Dance NY presented their second full-length production, In Transit, on December 1st and 2nd, 2006. Choreographers included Becky Radway, Danica Kalemdaroglu, Rachel Fachner, Meghan McCoy and Nicole Durfee. Contact collectivedanceny@yahoo.com for more info.
fivefour presented
us and FRIENDS
November 16th-18th, 2006.
The performance featured work by Cortney McGuire & Leah Nelson, Kate Martel, launch movement experiment, Alison Harmer, and Anne Zeurner with lighting Design by Megan Byrne and original music by Jeff Snyder.
"If it is our quirks that make us undeniably who we are fivefour makes these quirks more or less public property."
Jessica Kondrath/lux dance presented balli per i miei amici. Nov. 4th & 5th, 2006. The evening included the premieres of I’m Glad You’re Coming With Me On This and In The Presence of Shadows. Also performed Lack of That by choreographer Amy Osgood, which responds to the varying dynamic between people as they interact and Kondrath’s quirky and fanciful Lex.
As a founding organization of The New Williamsburg Peformance Alliance (NewWPA), Triskelion Arts participated in the Williamsburg Free Fest on September 30th and October 1st, 2006. 2 full days of free performances at Triskelion, The Brick, Soundance, Studio 111 and The Cave and Galapagos. Triskelion was honored to present work by Will Rawls, Marisa Gruneberg/White Road Dance Media, Heather McArdle, everything smaller, Bryon Carr/Lightcurve Dance, Stephanie Sleeper, JaxDance, Jessica Gaynor and from its own resident companies Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre and Cirque This. Hundreds of new audience members attended the free shows.
Songs from the Pac-Man & Loose Ladies, 2 original musicals by The Bureau were presented at Triskelion Sept. 7th-9th, 2006.
The Yard on Martha's Vineyard presented "Comedy and Classics," on July 24th, 2006, a shared program to benefit Built on Stilts and The Yard. The performance featured three revised BOS favorites by Stilts' director, Abby Bender alongside the masterwork "The Moors Pavane" and classic solos from the Limón Dance Company. It was an unusual and engaging pairing performed to a packed house. Click here for more info. Abby's "Septic Crisis", "Piqued", and "Sleeping Giants" were performed by Lyz Merida, Sara Edwards, Zoe Schieber, Jeong-min Michelle Lee, Danielle Loustau-Williams, and Alexis Cohn from NY and Laura Sargent Hall, Roberta Kirn, Alexis Iammarino and Nora Laudani from the Vineyard.
Choreographer Hilary Maia Grubb brought writer/spoken word artist alysseum's book-length written album Number Ten Dream to the stage in this evening-length performance extravaganza on June 9th and 10th at Triskelion. Number Ten Dream was s a work of movement, theater, poetry, and profanity which navigated the chaos of the soul through its earthly orifices, and featured a Greek chorus of deranged ballerinas, a human setpiece, and a host of characters who were off their conkers. The show exposed the grotesquerie of the human experience in a gritty live performance experiment.
Dixon Mena & Michelle Savage-Mena presented Paroxysm June 1st-4th, 2006.
Triskelion presented its resident circus, "Sleeping with Cirque This", a new circus odyssey into the beautiful, bizarre and bloodcurdling of the subconscious mind, May 24-28th.
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre premiered ZOO at Triskelion May 11-13 and 18-20, 2006. Her amazing company of twenty performed this wild new work exploring our animal natures to packed houses for its spring run and resurrected the piece for an encore performance in fall of 2006. ZOO featured Kenneth Lang, Marisa Gruneberg, Jackie Moynahan, Hilary Maia Grubb, Megan Demarkis, TraDon Turner, Janessa Olsen, Josie Carbone, Jessica Seeman, Tommy Wilkinson, Kate Kaminski, Marissa A. Schoenfeld, Cristiano Veracosa, Danielle Loustau-Williams, Carlo Fiorletta, Abby Bender, Rachael Vacharasovan, Yuka Ogata, Julia Peck, and Katie O'Neill with lighting design by Brian Aldous and video by Cree Nevins.
Triskelion Arts presented JaxDance's premiere of
P i e c e s April 27th-29th. Jackie Moynahan's Pieces challenged the different parts of one's self to find out; without which do we fall apart? The choreographer explored the emotional, physical, and mental side of this question with company members Kimberly Goss, and Leanne Schmidt and featured costumes by Stephanie Gene Sleeper and sound design by Allen Willner. For more info on JaxDance, visit www.jaxdance.com.
Collective Dance NY presented its show here/restless April 7th-8th at Triskelion. The performance brought together five emerging artists from the NY and DC area to present a series of vignettes that wandered from solo to full group work, from slow and systematic to quick and desperate. (Choreography by Becky Radway, Danica Kalemdaroglu, Meghan McCoy, Rachel Fachner and Kate Martel- in collaboration with Leah Nelson and Cortney McGuire.) Please visit Collective Dance NY's website for more information: www.geocities.com/collectivedanceny
Triskelion Arts presented white road Dance Media's Character Assassination March 28th-April 1st, 2006. Marisa Gruneberg, Ashley Singletary and their bold thirteen member company performed eight new works of physical daring, subtlely, and under the table Kodachrome attractions. . Visit them at www.whiteroaddancemedia.com
The Magic Caravan and special guest Chris Rozzi, exploded on Triskelion's stage February 3rd-5th, 2006 with their unique barrage of music, poetry, film and dark, wondrous humor.
Squeeze Machine, a shared evening of dance featuring works by Daniel Linehan and Miriam Wolf, premiered at Triskelion on January 28th & 29th, 2006. The two dances that composed the show investigated the overwhelming pressures enmeshed in contemporary American life that force us to make constant, careless decisions. Both works posed the question, what does it mean when choices are being squeezed out of us, and what does it mean to employ free will? Squeeze Machine featured vigorous performances by dancers Anna Carapetyan, Michael Helland, Natalie Green, Sam Johnson, Daniel Linehan, and Miriam Wolf.
In conjunction with curator Dean Daderko, RobbinsChilds presented their first installment of C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience), a video/performance/installation work by A.L. Steiner, A.J. Blandford and RobbinsChilds with live sound by Rosten Woo, at Triskelion on December 19th, 2005.
What's behind Door #3?On December 10th, 2005, Abby Bender & Andrew Dickerson presented Triskelion's annual action-packed fundraiser performance and auction. The evening included performances and appearances by: The Handsome Public, Perry Garvin, everything smaller, The Hazzards, Nora Laudani, robbinschilds, Saori Tsukada, Laura Sargent Hall with Roberta Kirn, Abby Bender & Anna Luckey. The event generated tremendous profit, thanks to the generosity of the over 100 guests in attendance and all the amazing donors and volunteers involved.
Maria Colaco Dance premiered EyeCandy
at Triskelion on November 11th, 12th, and 13th at Triskelion. The show was a great success--Keep your eyes peeled for news from this hilarious emerging company!
Jeremy Bieger and Manifold Motion presented Seed at Triskelion on September 25th, 2005. The show included live music, contemporary dance and three channels of video art .
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