Crossroads Series curated by Pioneers Go East Collective.
Join us for a virtual Crossroads video art series curated by Pioneers & hosted and presented by Judson Church/ Judson Arts Wednesday on June 17th at 8 pm.
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Featuring: Anabella Lenzu! Loco 7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company with Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber! Smart Snow collaboration between dance choreographer and media artist Kathleen Kelley (Proteo Media) and poet Sarah Rose Nordgren! Video performance + talkback with the artists.
CROSSROADS (CROSSWINDS, CROSSCURRENTS, CROSSFIRES) Performance + art + poetry + music + dance + food + community. A curated series presented by Pioneers Go East Collective as part of Judson Art Wednesdays! Crossroads Series features artists who explore new genres and known performance and art-making modes to share their creative practices with other artists and their audiences. Each evening we witness different generations of artists dealing with actual, day-to-day, contemporary challenges to further discussion between artists and to activate a network of exchange and inclusion with social and artistic intervention.
Featuring:
Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company
Reflections is a video art piece told through dance, music, and objects, dealing with feelings of anguish and grief.
Conceived, Directed, and Performed by Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber. Choreographed by Federico Restrepo; Music by Elizabeth Swados, Kris Kukal, John Sully, Kari Bethke, and Martin Wallace.
Bio - Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company, founded by Colombian born artist, Federico Restrepo in 1985, develops and promotes creative productions of Dance, Theatre, Puppets, and Visual Arts. Loco7's cultural policies emphasize pluralism, dialogue, and cultural transformation. Loco7 is an organization that has been built on diversity and this is reflected in the history of work. To date Loco7 has premiered over 16 original pieces at La MaMa and other venues, with subsequent tours throughout the world. Most recently Loco7 premiered Don Quixote Takes New York (2018), Seucy & Boto, epi 2 (2017), Seucy & Boto, episode 4 (2016), Undefined Fraction (2016/2015), Seucy & Boto, episode 1,2,3 (2015), Plunge (2013), Free Falling (2013), Urban Odyssey (2012), In Retrospect (2010), Room To Panic (2008), Open Door (2006), Bokan – the Bad Hearted (2004), 9 Windows (2002), Colores (1998), Aguirre, the Spiral of the Warrior (1996), Cosecha (1990), Loco7 (1989), and two other Gotham fantasies: Locombia (1986), Carrera (1988). In addition Loco7 premiered in Bogotá, Colombia, Piratas de Papel (1994) and Mobile Urbano (1986).
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Anabella LenzuAnima and Animus both questions and affirms the reality of being a creator, an artist, and a spectator. What is the boundary between art and life? Is performance a way to love? Director: Anabella Lenzu/ Cinematographer Angelo Vasta / Dancers: Anabella Lenzu and Salvatore Cataldo.
Anima and Animus is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). Anima and Animus was developed in part at CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College 2019-2020, and funded in part by generous grants from Edward Foundation Arts Fund, MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education and private donations. Special Thanks Michelangelo Alasa, Amy Larimer, Todd Carroll and Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama's 2019 family of supporters! Filmed at Lehman College in The Bronx, and at DMAC, DUO-Multicultural Art Center in NYC, August 2019.
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Kathleen Kelley, Sarah Rose Nordgren / Company Name: Smart snow
Territory - Hovering between utopian and dystopian visions, Territory depicts a woman confined in a 2 by 3 foot forest diorama constructed using landscape miniatures manufactured for war reenactment. Layered with projected text and narrated by her own thoughts, the landscape reveals itself as both magical and claustrophobic, static and surging with power. Ultimately, the woman is trapped between her ability to “see all sides of [her] enclosure equally” and the viewer’s gaze that keeps her enclosed. This predicament hinges on her discovery that “there is no new territory, just overlapping desire charged with violence.” Territory premiered in Triquarterly Magazine on January 15, 2018.
Company Bio - Smart Snow is a collaboration between dance choreographer and media artist Kathleen Kelley and poet Sarah Rose Nordgren. Since meeting at a high school party and recognizing each other as artistic soul-mates, they have been working together formally and informally for over 15 years. Smart Snow gives a name to their lifelong artistic relationship. Smart Snow creates art that pushes the forms of dance and poetry into new technological territories. As women working at the intersections between art and tech, Kathleen and Sarah Rose are interested in the mirrored relationship between technological and evolutionary processes and the “natural” and the “human” inside of digital spaces.