DANSPACE PROJECT ANNOUNCES THE SPRING 2010 SEASON   Location unless otherwise noted: Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, 131 East 10th Street, NYC (6 to Astor Place; R/W to 8th Street/NYU; L to 3rd Ave.) To purchase tickets: visit http://www.danspaceproject.org or call (866) 811-4111 Admission unless otherwise noted: $18.00 ($12.00 Danspace Project members) Our new start time is 8:00 PM, unless otherwise mentioned Danspace Project (DSP) returns to the City/Dans series for May 2010. “After launching our new PLATFORM 2010 program, we are excited to return to our City/Dans series. This season, we are presenting singular performance events by artists known for their rigor and risk-taking,” says Judy Hussie-Taylor, executive director of Danspace Project. Emerging artist Melinda Ring brings her first evening-length work to Danspace with X [May 13-15], a piece inspired by Dan Graham’s video “Rock My Religion.” Ring collaborates with Whitney Biennial artist Martin Kersels on this one of a kind performance. Also presented this season are choreographer Pam Tanowitz and acclaimed artists Eiko & Koma – both with deep ties to Danspace Project. Pam Tanowitz, who The New Yorker calls “a clear sighted post modernist”, brings live music into the sanctuary in her exploration of Schubert’s The Wanderer’s Fantasy [May 20-22]. Eiko & Koma will launch their groundbreaking, three-year national retrospective and, like the platforms, this provides another opportunity to better understand the context within which these artists have been making work for nearly forty years [May 27-29]. Through our Academy Dances program we are honored to host Florida State University (FSU) School of Dance for the first time. FSU has an extraordinary dance program and is home to the Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center (MANCC), which has made an impact on dance artists throughout the United States. In addition to the presented artists in the City/Dans series, DraftWork, the works-in-progress showing curated by Ishmael Houston Jones, will feature the final set of artists for the 2009-2010 season: Lindsey Drury and Martin Lanz. In a major change in the Danspace Project programming, June 2010 will feature companies selected through the DANCE: Access subsidized rental series: Nancy Meehan Company, Dancewave. C. Eule Company and Murray Spalding Mandalas. The Access schedule runs from June 4 to June 26. Looking towards Fall 2010, choreographer and fall PLATFORM curator Trajal Harrell is accepting applications for The Adventure. Eight to ten artists, selected through open application, will consider the critical role of the choreographic artist in society. The Adventure is modeled on a lab first developed and conducted by Mårten Spångberg/International Festival at the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival in 2006. To apply, please send a resume and/or CV, plus a maximum one page motivation letter addressing why you would like to participate in this project to info@danspaceproject.org by May 14th. For more information, please visit our website http://www.danspaceproject.org. Danspace Project’s Spring Season Listings Academy Dances: Florida State University May 6-8, 2010 • [Thu-Sat] • 8:00 PM Academy Dances, which showcases dance-makers and artists from renowned college and university dance programs returns with Florida State University School of Dance. With a history of making “creative and intellectual contributions to the larger dance community,” FSU presents faculty and student performances to works by esteemed faculty members, including Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Gerri Houlihan, Dan Wagoner, and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography guest artist Monica Bill Barnes and alumni including Daniel Clifton, Adele Myers, Tom Pearson and Jennine Willett of Third Rail Projects, and A’Keitha Carey (who appeared at Danspace this fall in Cynthia Oliver’s Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso). City/Dans: Melinda Ring, with Martin Kersels X May 13-15, 2010 · [Thu-Sat] · 8:00 PM Admission: $18 ($12 for members) Choreographer Melinda Ring pulls inspiration from conceptual artist Dan Graham’s film “Rock My Religion,” which connects the ecstatic dances of groups like the Shakers with rock and roll. For X, visual artist Martin Kersels creates an incidental soundscore, turning the legendarily acoustically live sanctuary into a single enormous sound machine; while below dancers Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Molly Leiber, Marilyn Maywald, and Antonietta Vicario boldly generate an equally dynamic physical force-field. City/Dans: Pam Tanowitz The Wanderer Fantasy (Experiments 1 & 2) May 20–22, 2010 · [Thu-Sat] · 8:00 PM Admission: $18 ($12 for members) In The Wanderer Fantasy, Pam Tanowitz explores performance rituals and unmasks the codified techniques in contemporary collage. The piece mirrors and comments on two versions of The Wanderer Fantasy, Fantasie in C major, Op. 15 (D. 760) by Franz Schubert (played live by pianist Alan Feinberg) and a recorded orchestral arrangement by Franz Liszt. The Wanderer Fantasy is performed by Christina Amendolia, Dylan Crossman, Katie Diamond, Ellie Kusner, Anne Lentz, Theresa Ling, Vincent McCloskey, Uta Takemura, and Purchase Dance Corp. The set and lighting design are by Philip Treviño and costumes by Karen Young. City/Dans: Eiko & Koma Retrospective Project May 27–29, 2010 · [Thu-Sat] · 8:00 PM Admission: $18 ($12 for members) For nearly forty years, Eiko & Koma have been creating a unique theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light, sound and time. Using their past works and their artistic trajectory as source material, Eiko & Koma are examining the concept of a visual arts retrospective in a performing arts context. Danspace Project is committed to presenting all phases of Eiko & Koma’s three-year, multi-faceted Retrospective Project, in collaboration with other New York venues and art centers around the country. Guest speakers for the event include: Thursday, May 27th: Margaret Leng Tan, a critically acclaimed pianist who collaborated with Eiko & Koma in 2007 on Mourning Friday, May 28th: Sam Miller, the Retrospective Project producer, and Charles Reinhart, director of the American Dance Festival Saturday, May 29th: David Gordon and Valda Setterfield, renowned choreographer and dancer from Gordon's Pick Up Performance Company DraftWork Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, the DraftWork series hosts informal Saturday afternoon performances that offer choreographers an opportunity to show new works in various stages of development. Performances are followed by discussions and informal receptions allowing both artists and audiences a greater perspective on the other’s viewpoint. Lindsey Drury and Martin Lanz May 22, 2010 • [Sat] • 3:00 PM Admission: Free; No Late Seating The Slick Filling of Aches and Cavities by Lindsey Drury offers a voyeuristic window into the private deterioration of a romantic relationship, while shining a light on the nature love and the intimacy of consumerism. Movement acoustics by Martin Lanz focuses on the resonance of the movement. Lanz brings his fascination with architecture, physics and philosophy into this piece.   *** ABOUT DANSPACE PROJECT For 35 years, Danspace Project has supported a vital community of contemporary dance artists in an environment unlike any other in the United States. Located in the historic St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, Danspace shares its facility with the Church, The Poetry Project, and Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative has commissioned over 360 new works since its inception in 1994. *** DANSPACE PROJECT FUNDERS This past season Danspace Project launched a new initiative, PLATFORMS 2010, a series of guest artist-curated programs that are part of the "Choreographic Center Without Walls" (CW2). PLATFORMS 2010 has received major support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has also provided support for PLATFORMS 2010 commissions by Souleymane Badolo, Maria Hassabi, Deborah Hay, Paige Martin, Katy Pyle, Jen Rosenblit, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Shelley Senter, and David Thomson. Danspace Project's 2009-2010 Commissioning Initiative has received major support from the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the generous individuals who support Danspace Project's Creation Fund for new work by Kyle Abraham, Gerald Casel, Eiko & Koma, Melinda Ring, Deganit Shemy, and Pam Tanowitz. Danspace Project's 2009-2010 City/Dans, DraftWork, Danspace@ and FOOD FOR THOUGHT series are presented, in part, with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council as well as City Council Member Rosie Mendez. Danspace Project programs are made possible in part through PUBLIC FUNDS from the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency); the New York State Council on the Arts (a state agency); the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; and Materials for the Arts (a joint program of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Sanitation). Additional support has also been provided by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program. Danspace Project extends special thanks to New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane, State Assembly Member Deborah J. Glick, City Council Member Rosie Mendez, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, and Governor David A. Paterson for their generous support. Danspace Project gratefully acknowledges the PRIVATE SUPPORT of the Arnhold Foundation, Inc.; Asian Cultural Council; Bloomberg; Carnegie Corporation of New York; The Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts; Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Deutsche Bank, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; FUSED: French U.S. Exchange in Dance, a program of the National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the French American Cultural Exchange, and The Florence Gould Foundation; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; the Japan Foundation Performing Arts JAPAN program; the Jerome Foundation; Leveraging Investments in Creativity; The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; the National Dance Project/NEFA; National Performance Network Creation Fund; the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York; New York Community Trust; Pew Center for Arts and Heritage; The Jerome Robbins Foundation; the James E. Robison Foundation; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.; The Segal Company; Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation; and the 35th Birthday Patrons Club and the Members of Danspace Project. Danspace Project receives additional support from 92nd Street Y; Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the John Cage Trust; Character Generators; Dance New Amsterdam; Dance/USA; Elsie Management Inc.; Gotham Arts Exchange; The Moore Family Fund for the Arts of the Minneapolis Foundation; Arthur B. Monroe Family Fund; Ping Chong & Company; Rena Shagan Associates; St. Mark's Church; as well as from Deutsche Bank, Moody's Foundation, Morgan Stanley, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Time Inc., and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. through employee matching gift programs. Lighting equipment provided courtesy of Dance Theater Workshop and The Joyce Theater; Danspace Project offers a very special thanks to Chloe Z. Brown, Linda Shelton, Nathan Hurlin, Valerie Simmons, and Geoff Freeman. Danspace Project gratefully acknowledges Pangea, the official restaurant of Danspace Project, as well as Chamisal Vineyards, Dancing Camera, Dumpling Diva Marja Samsom, Four32c, Manhattan Beer Distributors, One Dream Sound, Ozone Design, Inc., Amanda Ringger, Starcraft Press, The Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust, Sweet Muse, Sycamore Bar and Flower Shop, Taste Caterers, Tom Cat Bakery, Union Square Wines & Spirits, Vassilaros Coffee, Veselka, and Whole Foods Market Bowery, generous providers of food, beverages, products, and services for Danspace Project events. Danspace Project is a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Dance/NYC, Dance/USA, and the New York State DanceForce. Danspace Project relies heavily on ticket revenue to sustain our adventurous programming. However, it is our policy not to refuse admission solely on the inability to pay full price.