MAGNETIC LABORATORIUM
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BIOGRAPHIES WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART WHITNEY LIVE SERIES and CHEZ BUSHWICK PRESENT |
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Sylvie Blondeau is an architect and loves to practice yoga. She danced withVanessa Paige, created her own choreography at Soundance studio andperformed with Isabel Gotzkowsky. She loves walking the thin line between real life and performance with Magnetic Laboratorium. Dave Cash is an actor currently studying at the William Esper studio. He has appeared in the notes from underground play festival and has been in various YouTube short films including "A healthy dose of IRV." Valerie is a writer and lives in NYC and Switzerland. Danced with George Balanchine and Mudra Bejart in the last century. Wrote for Liberation,Actuel,Paper magazine and other publications about Art Music and Mysteries. Ms Filipovna married the conceptual Artist Joseph Kosuth in the early eighties and is currently writing a book about Then Downtown in NYC. she collaborated with many Artists in the past 30 years as well as playing the waitress in Julia Stiiles short new film ''Raving" last year. Jean Freebury danced with Merce Cunningham from 1992-2003 and has been a faculty member of MCDS since 1996. In the past year she has worked with Makram Hamdan, Glen Rumsey, Elke Rindfliesch and Douglas Dunn and is starting a new project with Kota Yamazaki. She has been a member of Magnetic Laboratorium since 2002. Camille de Galbert is a filmmaker, artist and dancer. Her career in art and dance led to an interest in multi-media and film work, she completed her film education at the New York Film Academy in June 2006.She is currently freelancing in the film and television industry between Paris and New York. She is a founding member of FC production, a non-profit organization committed to the development of live and video performances, and is partner of VIBRANT SKY; a New York based video production company. Meg Harper danced with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1968-1977) and The Lucinda Childs Dance Company (1979-90). She has worked with theater director Robert Wilson, choreographer Anita Cheng, and visual artist Marisela LaGrave. Currently she teaches Qi Gong and Action Magic,and is Administrative Assistant at Presbyterian Welcome. Kerry Henderson Before coming to New York, New Zealand baritone Kerry Henderson performed leading roles at the Sydney Opera House and throughout Australia and New Zealand. In the United States , he has sung at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and with the symphony orchestras of Detroit, Alabama, Charlotte, Illinois and Monterey. He also recently performed at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy. Makram Hamdan Born in Beirut, Lebanon; Choreographer and performer Makram Hamdan launched his dance company, MHDC, in April of 2007 with a first residency at the Watermill Center. He has worked internationally with Andy Degroat, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Glen Rumsey Dance Project and Robert Wilson. Hamdan has been a member of Magnetic Laboratorium since 2001. Makram Hamdan Dance Company is currently in Residence at Chez Bushwick. Writer and poet Victoria Redel is the author of 3 books of fiction and two books of poetry. Her most recent novel is THE BORDER OF TRUTH (2007). She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia University. Cathy Richards is a choreographer and founder of Movement in C, which had the very succesful premiere of Liquid Candy. Her choreography has been showcased in Cool NY 2007 Festival, Galapagos - THROW, Chashama's OASIS 2006 and 2005 Festival, DUMBO 2007, 2006, and 2005 Festivals, Chashama's 2005 Outside Art Festival, Merce Cunningham Studio, Zone Chelsea Gallery, and Panetta Movement Center. For more info visit www.cathyrichards.com Elke Rindfleisch joined Magnetic Laboratorium in 2003. Her company Rindfleisch creates multilayered theatrical danceworks, often with Chris Woltmann's rock band The Czar Bomba. Venues include Ohio Theater (Ice Factory Festival), Danspace Project, Sitelines Festival Judson Church, Dixon Place, Wallabout Studio. Upcoming in 2008, Pumpwerk Berlin, and arts festival Mt. Tremper. www.rindfleischdance.com Michael Romano is a librarian who lives in Brooklyn. Daniel Squire is a dancer, video-maker and writer from the UK, currently based in NYC. A member of Merce Cunningham's Company, he has also danced with Michael Clark, Matthew Hawkins, Kimberly Bartosik and Ian Spink. His video work was shown as part of a Stanford University multi-media event in 2005. Among other projects, he was commissioned, in 2000, to produce a series of children's writings to accompany lithographs by Andy Warhol for Goliga Books. Kerry Stichweh has worked with Merce Cunningham, Matthew Barney (Cremaster III), Ellen Cornfield, Ruth Davidson Hahn, Encompass New Opera, Kroos Company, Elke Rindfleisch, & others. She has created & collaborated on many theatrical & operatic productions & installations which have premiered at venues such as The Kennedy Center, John Jay Theatre (NY), Connelly Theatre (NY), the Festival Oude Musicke (Netherlands), Japan Society (Kyoto), Yale University, American Dance Festival & the Florida Dance Festival. She recently completed her MFA in dance in the inaugural year of the American Dance Festival/Hollins University program and is currently collaborating with artist Qian Yi on Fox Spirit, which will premiere in New York in 2008. Maxine Swann has been awarded the Cohen Award, an O. Henry Award and a Pushcart Prize, and her work has been included in The Best American Short Stories of 1998 and 2006. Her first novel, Serious Girls, was published in 2003 and her second novel, Flower Children, in 2007. Swann, who has lived in Paris and Pakistan, now lives primarily in Buenos Aires. Penelope Thomas is grateful to work in professions in which track pants and sheet music for old love songs are tax-deductible. She has danced with choreographers including Anita Cheng, Hiske Dooper, Laura Glenn/Works, Bryan Hayes, and Gabriel Zaragoza; she has also performed as a vocalist with The Collective Opera Company and in Mikel Rouse’s The End of Cinematics. Ryan Tracy holds a Masters Degree in Composition from the Mannes College of Music and BM degrees in Composition and Choral Conducting from Chapman University. In 2005, Ryan founded Collective Opera Company (www.collectiveopera.com), a multi-disciplinary network of performance and visual artists dedicated to creating original opera works. Ryan has directed the company in over thirty performances since its inception, including engagements at Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, The Abrons Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement, Dixon Place, La MaMa, Danspace, Galapagos, Monkey Town, the Sara Meltzer Gallery, Omi International Arts Center and Cornell University, in addition to several street performances. Ryan has fulfilled residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo and The Edward Albee Foundation. Ryan is also the founder and editor of the alternative arts criticism website, countercritic.com. This is Ryan’s fourth collaboration with Magnetic Laboratorium. Petra van Noort hails from The Netherlands. She currently dances with Susan Marshall & Company and Tiffany Mills Company. Additionally she has had the pleasure of dancing for, amongst others: Jennifer Muller/ THE WORKS, Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends, Company Rindfleisch and Leda Meredith and in NL: Wies Merkx and Herman van Veen. Petra much enjoys teaching repertory, acting, practicing reflexology and exploring the boundaries of ‘reality’. Under the leadership of Jonah Bokaer in 2002, a group of artists and choreographers formed Chez Bushwick, an adventurous arts organization that has significantly impacted a new generation of dance artists, choreographers, and performers in the United States, and beyond. Founding artists developed a series of public programs that have become emblematic of a new way of working in New York City: across borders, across disciplines, employing variable aesthetic signatures, and overturning divisions between choreographer, curator, producer, and audience member. Through strategies of collaboration, activism, and public dialogue, these cultural strategies have achieved economic amnesty during a challenging real estate and funding climate in New York City. With respect to choreography, its processes, and its support structures, new ground was broken in dance and performance, and as a result, Chez Bushwick emerged as a new model for the creation, support, and presentation of new dance and performance. Presently, Chez Bushwick is an award-winning nonprofit organization with offices in Brooklyn and Paris. Guided and administered by artists under the leadership of Bokaer, the organization is dedicated to fostering the research, development, and presentation of new dance and performance works. Chez Bushwick has succeeded in developing the most affordable artists subsidy program in New York State (stabilized at $5 an hour since the organization's inception), and vigorously advocates towards economic justice for the performing arts. The organization also produces daring programs of contemporary dance, music, performance, video art, and related forms, and has earned a reputation for creative risk-taking, political activism, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Funding for Chez Bushwick is received by its Board of Directors, 2wice Arts Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, Cowles Charitable Trust, Dance Theater Workshop, The Flemish Ministry of Culture, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, FUSED/French U.S. Exchange in Dance, the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, and contemporary arts galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. Chez Bushwick also received the “Passing It On” Award from the Brooklyn Arts Exchange in 2006, and a New York Dance & Performance/BESSIE Award in 2007 |