Hope to See You at the 2013 Arts Presenters Showcase

Four of H-Art Artists will perform during the 2013 Arts Presenters Conference in New York which has been titled IMAGING.  To make a reservation, please email us at reservations@h-artmanagement.com or call 212.868.2134. During the conference, please come by booth# 102 in the EXPO Hall, we look forward to seeing you in New York soon!


Alison Chase Performance- Handsomest Drowned Man. Photo by Sean Kernan


ALISON CHASE PERFORMANCE
Alison Chase Performance presents excerpts from a new work-in-progress with live music performed by composer/ violinist Rob Flax. In addition, excerpts from Chase's new work the Handsomest Drowned Man will be shown, a visual meditation that blends live dance, projected film and photography in a hypnotic retelling of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's short story of the same title. Chase's Tsu-Ku-Tsu, a classic work of intense, physical and complex partnering will round out the showing.

Friday, January 11, 7 PM
City Center, Studio 4
130 W 56th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
50 minutes
Subway: N/Q/R to 57th St / 7th Ave, F to 57th St / 6th Ave, D/E to 7th Ave / 53rd St 
reservations@h-artmanagement.com



David Dorfman Dance- Come, and Back Again. Photo by Adam Campos

DAVID DORFMAN DANCE
Dorfman’s newest work-in-process, Come, and Back Again (C,aBA), is an evening length elegiac exploration of the virtuosity of daily living, its mess, mortality, and hope. Driven by the charged poetry and unapologetic, raw ferocity of the underground Atlanta band Smoke, five dancers and five musicians embark on a kinetic anthem of reckless personal abandon taking on time, and how memory influences and manages our slippery, elastic existence. To create C,aBA, Dorfman is currently collaborating with composer/musical director Samuel Crawford to create a score using Smoke’s and original music, and street/installation artist “Swoon” (Caledonia Curry) to add a visual soul to the evening.

Saturday, January 12, 3 PM
City Center, Studio 4
130 W 56th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
45 minutes
Subway: N/Q/R to 57th St / 7th Ave, F to 57th St / 6th Ave, D/E to 7th Ave / 53rd St 
reservations@h-artmanagement.com


LeeSaar The Company- grass and jackals.  Photo by Chris Duggan

LEESAAR THE COMPANY
Described by The New York Times as never less than remarkable to watch, LeeSaar The Company presents their newest work grass and jackals - A collaboration between choreographers Lee Sher, Saar Harari, and lighting artist Bueno Avi-Yona (Bambi). The piece moves from one climax to the next - silent, violent, intimate, wild, exposed, lonely - and showcases extraordinary abilities. Through four years of questioning and researching the use of the extreme as a tool, grass and jackals is a dance piece and a light spectacle that constantly pushes the physical and emotional boundaries of both the performers and the viewers. 

Saturday, January 12, 4 PM 
City Center, Studio 4
130 W 56th Street (between 6th & 7th Avenues)
50 minutes
Subway: N/Q/R to 57th St / 7th Ave, F to 57th St / 6th Ave, D/E to 7th Ave / 53rd St 
reservations@h-artmanagement.com



Stephen Petronio Company- UNDERLAND. Photo by Sarah Silver

STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY
Stephen Petronio Company performs excerpts from Like Lazarus Did(LLD), UNDERLAND and The Architecture of Loss. Inspired by the mythology of resurrection, models of transformation and rebirth, and how one entity falls off to give way to the next, Like Lazarus Did is conceived and directed by Stephen Petronio, with an original score by composer Ryan Lott (Son Lux).
A vividly surging work, inspired by the dark, bitter-sweet songs of Australian balladeer Nick Cave, UNDERLAND unravels as a powerfully fractured, enigmatic world filled with hope and despair. The Architecture of Loss, about the physical manifestations of “losing” and all that implies, reaches for the immediacy and unpredictability of “disappearing” through constantly morphing, visceral structures. With original music by groundbreaking, Icelandic composer Valgeir Sigurðsson.

Tuesday, January 8, 7:30 PM &
Sunday, January 13, 2 PM
Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue (at the corner of 19th Street)
40 minutes
Subway: A/C/E to 14th St, L to Eighth Ave, 1 to 18th St (7th Ave.)
reservations@h-artmanagement.com

As part of the Dance/USA Agents Council, we would love to invite you to FOCUS DANCE, taking place all over the city from January 8-14.  Access to DANCE MEET Studio 5 will be monitored, so it would be great if you could register.  For more information please click here, see you soon in New York!

US Premiere of Lucy Guerin's Untrained

Lucy Guerin Inc. will bring Untrained to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in November, followed by the Mondavi Center at UC Davis in December. The event is featured in The New Yorker.

So you think you can dance?
Untrained is a quirky and irreverent theatrical exploration that takes its performers and its audience into a whole new undefined experience.

Four men take to the stage. Two of these men are highly skilled, experienced dancers and two are acclaimed visual artists with no movement training whatsoever. The complex, refined movements that one man can do with ease, another can only approximate.

Performers: Michael Dunbar, Alisdair Macindoe, Ross McCormack and Jake Shackleton

BAM
Nov 27—Dec 1, 2012
http://www.bam.org/untrained

MONDAVI CENTER, UC DAVIS
Dates: Dec 6 - 8, 2012
http://mondaviarts.org/events/event.cfm?event_id=1141

Stephen Petronio Receives Grant to Develope New Work

Congratulations to Stephen Petronio for receiving the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project grant. The grant goes to support the development of Like Lazarus Did during the 2012-2013 season. The grant also provides touring support for the 2013-2014 season. According to Petronio, Like Lazarus Did is inspired by the mythology of resurrection, the act of bringing back to life from a state of death. The piece is to be created as an ongoing and shifting performance that will take place throughout the year and evolve in a variety of adaptations that cater to the spaces in which it is shown. The work features an original score by composer Ryan Lott.

NEFA’s National Dance Project (NDP) was launched in 1996 to encourage the creation of new work in dance that would be shared with audiences in communities throughout the United States. Since then, the program has distributed more than $21.2 million in grants and has become one of the few sources for dance funding in the country. Through grantmaking and other activity, the program supports dance in ways that enhance partnerships between artists and presenters with the equally important goals of engaging and expanding audiences for dance.

Congratulations to David Dorfman Dance

Congratulations to David Dorfman Dance for receiving the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project grant. The grant goes to support the development of Come, and Back Again during the 2012-2013 season. The grant also provides touring support for the 2013-2014 season. Come, and Back Again is an evening length work inspired by the legendary Patti Smith and the unapologetic ferocity of rock n’ roll. With striking and uniquely relevant visuals by Documentary Film Maker Sam Green, four dancers and a local cast of musicians led by Sound Designer Sam Crawford embark on a kinetic anthem of reckless abandon. The work, a very personal tale of survival and hope, is as intimate an experience for audiences as it is for performers.

The National Dance Project is particularly interested in supporting work that reflects the evolving environment for dance, including but not limited to projects that push aesthetic boundaries and reflect the cultural and aesthetic diversity alive in dance today, that are interdisciplinary, enabling choreographers and dance artists to partner with creators in other artistic forms or explore hybrid art forms, and projects that enable choreographers and dance artists to experiment with new technologies in the creation of new work.

LeeSaar The Company receives NDP grant

Congratulations to LeeSaar The Company for receiving the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project grant. The grant goes to support the development of grass and jackles during the 2012-2013 season and provides touring support for the 2013-2014 season. According to artistic directors, Lee Sher and Saar Harari, grass and jackles emerges from four years of researching how to transfer the extreme conditions of life in the military to the stage. It will be a dance piece and a light spectacle that constantly pushes the physical and emotional boundaries of both the performers and the viewers. The piece will move from one climax to the next, featuring music that creates an atmosphere of an unknown terrain. These climaxes will be silent, violent, intimate, wild, exposed, lonely, and will showcase extraordinary abilities.

Garth Fagan, Wynton Marsalis, and Alison Saar at BAM

*UPDATE*: GARTH FAGAN & WYNTON MARSALIS INTERVIEW ON THE NEW YORK TIMES, 9/26/2012

The public was first presented with a stunning collaboration between choreographer Garth Fagan and jazz composer Wynton Marsalis in 1991 with Griot New York, an eight scene work (including the romantic pas de deux "Spring Yaounde"), divided in two acts, that depicted the lives of African Americans in New York City.  These eight scenes were made possible by sculptor Martin Puryear’s large-scale scenery, beginning with a hanging upside down jug and closing with an empty stage.  The work is known primarily for the incredible relationship between the choreography and musical score, with Angela Allen from Oregon Music News stating that "the choreography is perfectly paced with and suited to the score so the piece unwinds as a whole."

From September 27-30, 2012, this dynamic duo joins artist visual artist Alison Saar for another work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as part of the many events to celebrate BAM's 150th Anniversary!  Saar's sculptures and installations explore themes of African cultural diaspora and spirituality, and her studies of Latin American, Caribbean and African art and religion have informed her work. Saar’s fascination with vernacular folk art and ability to build an oasis of beauty from cast-off objects are evident in her sculptures and paintings. Saar’s highly personal and often life-sized sculptures are marked by their emotional candor.

The cohesiveness of this collaboration will ultimately present a work that will serve as a universal statement about specific human experiences. The work, under the working title Lighthouse/Lightning Rod, will explore issues of the Contemporary world through dance, music, and sculpture across societal, cultural, and economic paradigms. Garth Fagan Dance and the Brooklyn Academy of Music will also engage audiences through a master class, and post performance talk.

GARTH FAGAN DANCE
Choreography: Garth Fagan
Music: Wynton Marsalis
Artist:  Alison Saar

See You at WAA, Arts Midwest, and PAE in September!

It's the time of the year!  We will be there for three regional conferences: booth 313 during WAA in Denver, booth 426A at Arts Midwest in Grand Rapids, and booth 212 in Miami for PAE!  Please call 212.868.2134 or email us at info@h-artmanagement.com if you would like to schedule a booth time.   We look forward to seeing you there!

Welcome LeeSaar The Company to Our Roster!

H-Art Management welcomes to its roster LeeSaar The Company. Described by The New York Times as never less than remarkable to watch, LeeSaar The Company is the artistic composite of director/writer Lee Sher and dancer/choreographer Saar Harari. After both serving in the Israeli military, the pair established the company in Israel in 2000. In 2004, after residency in Sydney, Australia, and two seasons in Tel Aviv, the company moved to NYC where it is currently based. By 2005, the duo had so impressed the arts establishment that they were awarded American green cards for excellence in the performing arts. Since then, they have blown away both critics and audiences alike with each new work.


Lee Sher and Saar Harari were born and raised in Israel. For thirty years they experienced life amid extreme conditions, collectively living through four wars and six years of military service. Their newest work, grass and jackals, emerges from four years of researching how to transfer these extremes to the stage. This work will be a collaboration with the lighting artist, Bueno Avi-Yona (Bambi), and will feature LeeSaar’s eight creating dancers directed by Sher and Harari. grass and jackals will exist as a chain of climaxes supported by the lighting, the musical score, the movement vocabulary and the composition. These climaxes will be silent, violent, intimate, wild, exposed, lonely, and will showcase extraordinary abilities.


In another recent work by the company, FAME, an international company of seven performers will strive to reach moments of fame as viewed through numerous pop culture filters and reference points. Utilizing an extremely physical and sensual performance style, truths are told and fragile secrets revealed as the audience strives to interpret the difference between what is seen… and what is perceived. Deboral Jowitt of ARTS JOURNAL writes of the work; fascinating choreography, with exceptional group of performers, that unfolds as a collage of images that layer ambition, embarrassment, fear of failure, pain, desire to please, need for love, and more. These people are powerful and delicate, grotesque and gorgeous, and you can’t take your eyes off them.

Much of LeeSaar's process is influenced by the Gaga movement language developed by Ohad Naharin, Artistic Director of the Israeli dance company Batsheva. Sher and Harari and their company lead the Gaga activities in the US, as well as teach Master classes for dancers and people in most of their touring.