Sentences with phrase «contemporary choreographer»

A contemporary choreographer based in Japan, Kaori Seki explores the possibilities of the live encounter, engaging the audience's senses and evoking...

It features ten new essays by curators and historians, as well as interviews with contemporary choreographers — Beth Gill, Maria Hassabi, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener — who address Cunningham's continued influence.

One of the most dynamic contemporary choreographers working today (he's most recently known for collaborating with artist Olafur Eliasson and indie music producer Jamie xx in their experimental ballet Tree of Codes), McGregor's works use collaborative and synchronized movement to blur the lines between science, technology, and the arts, and Atomos is no exception.

The first woman choreographer to receive the coveted MacArthur «genius» grant (in 1991) Brown was honoured with nearly every award available to contemporary choreographers.

Based on documentation of performances by for instance the Ballet Russes in the 1920s, the Judson Dance Theatre in the 1960s or contemporary choreographers, Silke Otto - Knapp has also painted formations and tableaus formed by the bodies of the choreographed dancers.

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This year we are particularly excited to have contemporary dancer, Thomas Page, on board as a guest choreographer.

«Interviews» with Grey, Bergstein, and choreographer Kenny Ortega appear to be contemporary reminiscences of, sigh, the time of their lives.

The Dances of West Side Story cast members, contemporary filmmakers, dancers and choreographers analyze and illuminate the film's famous dance sequences (Prologue, Dance At the Gym, Tony and Maria's Cha Cha, America, The Rumble, Maria's Roof Dance and Cool).

Atlanta - based conceptual artist and choreographer Lauri Stallings will stage her first site - specific work at Atlanta Contemporary and create her first public project in Atlanta since last summer's gestures that soon will disappear.

Belgian dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker introduced her postmodern dance work «Violin Phase» — the third of four movements set to the music of Steve Reich — at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts on Monday and Tuesday.A square - shaped sheet of white sand was placed in the middle of a white cuboid space while the late afternoon sunlight streamed in.

Rosenblit is a recipient of the 2014 New York Dance and Performance «Bessie» Award for Emerging Choreographer, an inaugural recipient of THE AWARD, a 2014 - 2015 workspace artist through LMCC, a 2013 Fellow at Insel Hombroich (Germany), a recipient of the 2012 Grant to Artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a 2009 Fresh Tracks artist (Dance Theater Workshop).

She is the recipient of grants from the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (2014), Multi-Arts Production Fund with Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2014), and Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange (2013).

2014 Generation: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Below another sky, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland; touring to Inverness Musuem and Art Gallery, Inverness, Scotland Underside / Disturbance, performance piece in collaboration with choreographer Janice Parker for Hospital House, Abroath, Scotland Paradigm Store, Howick Place, London, England

He has received numerous accolades, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, an American Choreographer Award, and a New York Dance and Performance «Bessie» Award.

Meier has been published in the books Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multimedia Performance by Dona McAdams (Aperture, 1996); Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page by Elena Alexander (Routledge, 1998); and The Danspace Project 25 Years (1999).

VENICE — The top prize of the Venice Biennale, the world's oldest and grandest international exhibition of contemporary art, was awarded on Saturday to Anne Imhof, an artist and choreographer whose grim and threatening occupation of the German pavilion, complete with anti-riot wire fences and barking Doberman pinschers, was the talk of the art world last week.

Belgian dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker introduced her postmodern dance work «Violin Phase» — the third of four movements set to the music of Steve Reich — at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts on Monday and Tuesday.

Congolese dancer Faustin Linyekula is a leading contemporary African choreographer and the founder of Studios Kabako.

RoseAnne Spradlin is a New York City - based choreographer whose work explores body consciousness and innovation of structural forms in contemporary dance.

The new protégés — a Swiss architect, a writer from Brazil, a Peruvian musician, a dancer from South Africa, an Argentinian / Spanish theatre artist, a film - maker from India and a Vietnamese visual artist — are being mentored by some of the most acclaimed figures in the contemporary arts worldwide: British architect Sir David Chipperfield, Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, Mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón, poet and novelist Mia Couto, from Mozambique, American composer Philip Glass, Canadian theatre director Robert Lepage and American performance and video artist Joan Jonas.

Senegalese and French Choreographer Germaine Acogny has developed her own style and technique of contemporary African dance.

Three contemporary artists teamed up with composers and choreographers to produce the dance pieces in response to three Titian paintings depicting the Diana myth.

He has exhibited widely, at museums and galleries nationally and internationally, and in 2014, collaborated with renowned choreographer Wayne McGregor to produce the stage design for Kairos, which was performed by Ballet Zürich and premiered at Zürich Opernhaus as part of Switzerland's contemporary dance biennale.

From 2004 to 2014, Audi served as Artistic Director of the Holland Festival, presenting works in music, dance, theater, and visual art by such artists as William Kentridge, John Baldessari, Tacita Dean, and Ryoji Ikeda; directors Peter Sellars, Sam Mendes, and Ivo van Hove; choreographers Mark Morris, William Forsythe, Lemi Ponifasio, Akram Khan, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker; and contemporary composers John Adams, Nico Muhly, and Louis Andriessen.

Previous winners of the Meadows Prize were Grammy - winning contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird and New York - based public arts organization Creative Time (2010); playwright and performer Will Power and choreographer Shen Wei, artistic director of New York - based Shen Wei Dance Arts (2011); Tony - winning playwright and screenwriter Enda Walsh and choreographer Michael Keegan - Dolan, artistic director of Dublin - based Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre (2012); violist Nadia Sirota and socio - political artist Tania Bruguera (2013); and choreographer and founder of Urban Bush Women Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (2014).

Coinciding with the 56th Venice Biennale, contemporary artist Lena Liv and dancer / choreographer Lindy Nsingo present Dancing Makes Me Joyful...

He has worked at the intersection of contemporary art and dance, co — curating notable projects by choreographers including Naked (2010) by Eiko & Koma, and Scaffold Room (2013) by Ralph Lemon.

Rosenblit is a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance «Bessie» Award for Emerging Choreographer, is an inaugural recipient of THE AWARD, a 2014 - 2015 workspace artist through LMCC, a 2013 Fellow at Insel Hombroich (Germany), a recipient of the 2012 Grant to Artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a 2009 Fresh Tracks artist (Dance Theater Workshop).

Founded in Beirut in 1993, Ashkal Alwan is committed to the production, research, and circulation of contemporary artistic and intellectual practices, through initiatives such as Home Works: A Forum on Cultural Practices (2002), a multidisciplinary platform bringing together artists, writers, thinkers, filmmakers, and choreographers, for a public program of exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances, as well as the Home Workspace Program (2011), an annual tuition - free art - study program.

In March 2009 one of the UK's most distinguished contemporary dance choreographers, Siobhan Davies collaborates with leading London gallerist Victoria Miro to present The Collection.

This is the work of New York - based choreographer Maria Hassabi, entitled STAGING (2017), commissioned by the Walker Art Center to premiere throughout the exhibition Merce Cunningham: Common Time, concurrently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has announced that choreographer Trisha Brown has won its inaugural Robert Rauschenberg Award.

http://danielpavis.tumblr.com/ Lauren Runions is a contemporary dancer and choreographer.

On his first trip to the United States in 1959, he introduced Billy Kluver, a Swedish research engineer at Bell Labs, to contemporary art; soon Mr. Kluver was collaborating with artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Tinguely on contraptions and events that united artists, musicians and choreographers with engineers.

She specializes in performance art and site specific art having gained her experience as Managing Director of Dansmakers Amsterdam, a production house and workplace for research and development of contemporary experimental dance by emerging choreographers and as Managing Director of theater collective Aardlek, which specializes in street arts and site specific theater starting from the realities of public space.

After organising activities with Merce Cunningham and Simone Forti, the Museo presents the choreographer and dancer Steve Paxton (USA, 1939), a central figure in the development of contemporary dance and the creator of contact improvisation.

Ally is a performance - as - exhibition, conceived by Antoni in collaboration with pioneering choreographer Anna Halprin and contemporary dance artist Stephen Petronio.

Exploring one of the most important chapters in the history of contemporary art, The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns focuses on Marcel Duchamp's American legacy, tracing his relationship to four great modern masters — composer, John Cage, choreographer, Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Contemporary artist Chris Doyle, featured in issue 1, and choreographer / dancer Amy Smith, featured in issue 8, will discuss several of their collaborative experiments and talk about their work together on the forthcoming Red Rovers, a performance piece that takes as it starting point the exploration of the Martian landscape by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Notable participants include: choreographer and dancer Kyle Abraham; poet Elizabeth Alexander; performer Eric Berryman; performance and installation artist Tania Bruguera; urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter; innovator James Burling Chase; actress and playwright Eisa Davis; architect Elizabeth Diller; The Met's Kimberly Drew; photographer John Edmonds; juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss; writer and performance artist Malik Gaines; social practice artist Theaster Gates; filmmaker Tony Gerber; FLEXN dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray; trombonist, painter, and composer Dick Griffin; dancer and choreographer Francesca Harper; trombonist Craig Harris; vocalist Nona Hendryx; playwright Branden Jacobs - Jenkins; cinematographer Arthur Jafa; artist and cultural worker Shani Jamila; trumpeter JAWWAAD; gaming pioneers Navid and Vassiliki Khonsari; NYU Professor and musician Jason King; philosopher Gregg Lambert; composer and Bang on the Can co-founder David Lang; novelist, filmmaker, and curator Ernie Larsen; Wooster Group founding member and director Liz LeCompte; Harvard Professor Sarah Lewis; journalist Seamus McGraw; poet Aja Monet; jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran; performance studies professor Fred Moten; visual artist Shirin Neshat; playwright Lynn Nottage; professor of contemporary rhetorical theory Kendall Phillips; doctor Jeremy Richman; poet Carl Hancock Rux; performance artist Alexandro Segade; writer and activist Tanya Selvaratnam; guitarist and composer Marvin Sewell; playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith; conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; performance artist Carmelita Tropicana; puppeteer Basil Twist; theater director Roberta Uno; vocalist and composer Imani Uzuri; and Wooster Group founding member and actress Kate Valk, among others.

He was the director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts when Mr. Sehgal showed there; and it was he who first encouraged Mr. Sehgal, then a choreographer, to show his work in a museum context.

Rosenblit is a recipient of a 2014 New York Dance and Performance «Bessie» Award for Emerging Choreographer, an inaugural recipient of THE AWARD, a 2014 — 2015 workspace artist through Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a 2013 Fellow at Insel Hombroich (Germany), a recipient of the 2012 Grant to Artists from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and a 2009 Fresh Tracks artist (Dance Theater Workshop).

Johns was strongly influenced by the choreographer Merce Cunnigham and his partner composer John Cage, with whom he founded the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art.

Pennsylvania Ballet presented the American premiere of Kazimir's Colors by the contemporary Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti.

Explore A Steady Pulse, the Center's multimedia danceworkbook focused on choreographer Lucinda Childs, watch a video of Childs discussing her history with Judson Dance Theater, and read an interview with choreographer Anna Halprin on being contemporary.

Faustin Linyekula, based in Kinshasa, is a leading contemporary African choreographer.

The Berlin Senate's cultural affairs department estimates that around 5,000 artists, 1,200 writers, 1,500 bands (pop, rock, and world music), 500 jazz musicians, 103 professional orchestras and music ensembles, 1,500 choirs, 300 theater groups, and 1,000 dancers and / or choreographers of contemporary dance live and work in Berlin.

Harlem Stage presents its signature dance series, E-Moves, featuring works from three contemporary African choreographers in four nights this year.

Houses loomed large in some of 2009's most interesting art, from Seattle choreographer Pat Graney's memory - infusedHouse of Mindinstallation and performance at DiverseWorks toGive and Take, Dan Havel and Dean Ruck's architectural intervention that was the best part of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston «sNo Zoning: Artists Engage Houston.

He scored a ballet for renowned choreographer Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, and has also scored video works for contemporary American artists Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker.