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DANCEbank Fall/Winter 2009 session
Sep 5, 12, 19: Cheng-Chieh Yu
Sept. 26, October 3, 10: Roxanne Steinberg
Oct. 17, 24, 31: Kevin Williamson
November 7, 14, 21: Neil Greenberg
December 5, 12: Sheetal Gandhi
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DIRECTIONS: 1745 North Spring Street, #4, Los Angeles
The building is a warehouse and is literally under the Spring St. Bridge, and more like it's on Baker @ Aurora....!
From the 110:
exit Solano and turn R, go down the hill to Broadway.
L on Broadway. Cross the bridge. At the intersection of 18th, Broadway, Pasadena, make a hard right onto North Spring (it should feel like you are doubling back).
Cross a second bridge. At the end of the bridge make a quick R @ Aurora. You are now next to the warehouse! Walk under the bridge through the urban planter garden. Metabolic Studios is right there.
From the 10:
Exit Alameda
take Alameda all the way to China Town
veer R onto Spring St.
Go past the park (to your left) and continue towards the bridge. One block before the bridge is Baker ST. make a left onto very crumbly road. Take to end (about 2 blocks). You are now parked behind the Metabolic Studios. You can walk through the workshop, then the garage to get to the studio.
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I will be performing my solo project, watch her (not know it now), in New York City, during the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference.
I will be doing two "open rehearsal" showings at Dance Theater Workshop: Sunday, January 10, 2010, at 1pm; and Monday, January 11th, at 6pm. This is limited seating, by invitation only. If you want to come, please send me a message!
RECENTLY:
August 6-8, 2009
Premiere of watch her (not know it now), as part of the New Original Works (NOW) Festival @ REDCAT created in collaboration with composer/sound designer Aaron Drake, lighting design by Chris Kuhl
excerpts here:
choreographer & performer, organizer & instigator of Show Box projects...
including the Anatomy Riot performance series; the tri-annual dance journal, itch (have you subscribed yet?)
...and DANCEbank classes (see info on the left side of this page)
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performance venues, studios, clubs, galleries that show dance, etc etc
TENDER
April 17-19th, 2009:
at Highways Performance Space (in collaboration with Gregory Barnett); on a shared program with Demolition Boy by guest artist Karen Sherman (Minneapolis).
2008:
November 14:.. Producer for "Vaudeville Night" at the Velaslavasay Panorama Theater in conjunction
with the California Community Foundation 20 Years Ago Today exhibition.
performed as part of Asphalt Sea at the RED MERMADE, instigated by the divine Anna B. Scott
Oct 2-3 2008 8 pm
performed as part of the Commuter Festival
at the California Institute for the Arts
CalArts, The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater
CalArts School of Dance would like to encourage the exchange of creative processes between the educational and professional environments within the greater Los Angeles collective. The “commuter” concept was developed to support the presentation of works by local choreographers.
solo improv, corner, at Anatomy Riot #26, 9/8/08
July 3- 13th, 2008: Eleven Missing Days, a collaborative/hybrid dance/performance/audio project, at the Unknown Theater.
Exploring the presence of absence and inspired by film noir, Eleven Missing Days was created in collaboration with performers Mikki del Monico, Jeremy Hahn, Rachel Lopez, Nancy Sandercock, Rae Shao-Lan Blum; with text by Mikki del Monico, voiceover by Diona Reasonover and Brian Reid; music/sound design by Aaron Drake; lighting design by JaNelle Weatherford.
May 30 & 31, 2008: performed in Christine Suarez's Wet Spots: The Story Project
May 1st, 2008, I performed at impresario Marcus Kuiland-Nazario's "Cinco de Maypole" at The Echo.... in the fine company of Nao Bustamante, Ayana Hampton, Kristina Wong, Gregory Barnett, Anna B Scott, Jesse Bonnell and the Poor Dog Group you can read about it on Anna B's AFROLOGICA site...
February 29th, 2008, 8pm
Realigning body space with van space. In the Endurance Van, during Nude Media Night .......
Commitment in confinement - extreme work in the back of a van. As part of Sound in Space"an indiscriminate month of sound performances" curated by Aaron Drake.... at Sea and Space Explorations
4755 York Blvd.
LA, CA 90042
performed at:
"Disturbance" at California Museum of Photography (Riverside), with Dr. Anna B. Scott and Ritsu Katsumata
2007:
The Return of Captain Ladyvoice, March, 2007
Highways Performance Space
performers: Gregory Barnett, Jeremy Hahn, Christine Suarez, Meg Wolfe
music by Maria de los Angeles "Cuca" Esteves
Ridicule (2002)
Tangente, Montreal
collaboration with videographer Mikki del Monico
is waiting shining (2001)
The Kitchen, NYC
collaboration with Mikki del Monico
On the west coast, I've performed at Sea and Space Explorations, High Energy Constructs, Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, Sushi/Takeout (San Diego), and Performance Works NorthWest (Portland, OR)
residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2009, 2007, 2005). Residency at UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures third annual Hothouse Program (2007)
Prior to moving to L.A., I lived/danced in New York City (1990-2004). Over the years, I presented work in NYC at Collective Unconscious, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark's, The Deviant Playground, Dia Center for the Arts, Highway-NCI/Context Hall, The Kitchen, The Living Theater, Movement Research at Judson Church, Mulberry Street Theater, Nuyorican Poets Café, and the White Box Gallery, among others.
Internationally, I've taught and/or performed in Azerbaijan, Canada, Ecuador, Finland, France, Ireland, Peru, Russia, Slovakia and Venezuela. I want to travel more. I haven't been to Minneapolis. I want to do a residency in Lapland in December.
The RV Show, Djerassi, 2005
In addition to my own choreography, I've had the pleasure of working with some wonderful, idiosyncratic artists, including Vicky Shick (since 1999); as well as with Sigal Bergman, Yoshiko Chuma/Dagdha Dance Company, Molissa Fenley, Kate Foley, David Alan Harris, Sam Kim, Clarinda Mac Low, Athena Malloy, and Susan Rethorst.
people I've learned from over the years, thank you:
Vicky Shick, Sondra Loring, Vera Mantero, Donna Uchizono, Tere O'Connor, Neil Greenberg, Simone Forti, Jennifer Monson, Marjorie Mussman, Eileen Thomas, K.J.Holmes, Karen Nelson, Christine Wright, Cindy Green, Igal Perry, David Zambrano, Cynthia Novack, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Ze'eva Cohen, Sarah Stackhouse, Kevin Wynn, Mel Wong, Jennifer Church, Sally Topham.........
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” --Albert Einstein
So facebook is going through some sort of maintenace so to get my online community fix i signed onto myspace...and i've decided to publicly remind you just how fucking awesome you are...looking forward to these next two weeks. love, G
Come on kids Just two clicks once a day and you could get me an audition for "The Big Gay Sketch Show" It's easier then taking your birth control and a lot more fun. If you could just cut and paste the link or try Clicking
Meg, Thanks for the add. I hope to get a chance to photograph you in the near future as well. I really appreciate you infusing our community with your ART.
“The gloom of this world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy, or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it, a living splendour, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys too; be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.” --Fra Giovanni Giocondo
thanks again beautiful for coming out last night. I always feel just a little more empowered when I know you're in the room...and I guess that's a good thing if you're doing an empowered whore piece. Does that mean i can partially blame you for pushing everyone...it came back a little more violent, no? oh well, I'm a good listener so I'll trust this. Let's do something soon, dinner and moving around my(or your) apartment? I played in the living room last sunday night and it's totally conducive for movement. love you so much. xo, your bad ass faggot
