CALENDAR
The Vivaldi Dance Project
NEW ANTIWAR PLAY A FORTNIGHT AT TRIPLER AND THE VIVALDI DANCE PROJECT
A DOUBLE-HEADER RUNS DECEMBER 4-8 th OFF-BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
Shows
Wednesday – Friday, December 4-7 at 7:30pm and Sunday matinee, December 8 at 3pm.
Tickets are $49 and student, senior, and military veteran discounts are available.
Tickets are available at the theater Box Office by phone (212) 912-2618 or at the following link:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36891/production/1216704
Producer James P. Stanton directs his original anti-war tragedy
A Fortnight at Tripler and brings Battery Dance principal dancer and choreographer Razvan
Stoian’s The Vivaldi Dance Project to life on the same off-Broadway stage at the Marjorie S.
Dean Little Theater for an exclusive run of four evenings and one matinee, December 4-8, 2024.
A Fortnight at Tripler depicts the plight of a soldier who returns from Iraq to Tripler Army Medical
Center, Hawaii, where he is hospitalized. It is an authentic story of love and life shattered in the
milieu of the struggles of victims of severe combat wounds in the care of US Army medical
personnel. It is a hard-hitting tragedy but inspires hope. Contains adult themes and language.
Dance and baroque music loving audiences will then be thrilled by The Vivaldi Dance Project, a
striking new jewel featuring eight female dancers in an original dance composition.
The full-length play features actor Jean Wyler who doubles as assistant producer and director
and stars Jenna Motley as Sara and Ian Potter as the soldier with an unforgettable original
musical accompaniment by pianist Jack Lewis Warren followed by the dance piece performed to
Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, RV 621, Movements I - IX, provided by Jakub Józef Orliński, courtesy of
Warner Classics UK Ltd, by arrangement with Warner Music Group.
Playwright, producer, and director Colonel Stanton (USAF, Ret.) is a decorated combat veteran
of the First Gulf War. The play was an Arts in the Armed Forces (AITAF) Bridge Award Semi
Finalist and was recently presented as a staged reading at the Public Theater Studios to great
audience acclaim.
Razvan Stoian hails from Romania and has won numerous dance
performance and choreography awards. As a Battery Dance principal, he has most recently
performed and taught with Battery Dance internationally and at the Battery Dance Festival.
The ADA accessible Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the Westside WMCA is located at
10 W64th Street, Manhattan, a stone’s throw from Columbus Circle and Lincoln Center.
The producer invites fellow NYC military veterans and the Public Theater’s Public Works
communities to attend complimentary. Please contact Melissa Wu, Marketing Manager for
invitation details. For media inquiries and to preserve a press seat also contact Ms. Wu at
melissa@eightt woeight.co
Merce Cunningham: Fielding Sixes
https://www.mercecunningham.org/the-work/choreography/fielding-sixes/
Cunningham described Fielding Sixes as, “a country dance in which the formal shapes open out in unexpected ways, the dancers appearing and disappearing and exchanging groups and partners in a fluid manner.” A fast tempo piece, Fielding Sixes includes numerous phrases involving leaping, rapid crossing of the stage, and sudden reversals of direction. John Cage composed the music, and Monika Fullemann’s décor featured three coarse, lace weavings suspended above the stage and a white backcloth with green, purple and red blotches. The women wore white shorts over pale green tights and leotards, and the men dressed in purple tank tops and long pants.
Four Statements on Attention
Four Statements on Attention
Choreographed by Eve Jacobs. Performed by Eve Jacobs, Alexander Anderson, Jay Beardsley & Savannah Jade Dobbs.
Saturday, 5/18 at 8:30pm and Sunday, 5/19 at 6pm at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
https://www.lamama.org/shows/emerging-choreographers-2024
"A danced thesis on the art of paying attention, I choreographed this work in an attempt to illustrate the sharpening effect that dance has on my mind. The process was enlivened by a sense of collaboration between all four members of the cast. Each dancer brings something unique to the work; each dancer is a statement on attention." - Eve Jacobs
Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obu2IOZK2QI
A behind the scenes look at Four Statements on Attention, choreographed by Eve Jacobs in 2024. Film by Alexander Trowbridge & Eve Jacobs
Quantum Showcase: Money
Quantum Showcase
“Money”
Choreographed by
Steph Steme
Performed by
Kassie Kolbec, Becca Broh, Natalie Frances Long, Joseph Heitman and Savannah Jade Dobbs
Location: CPR (Center for Performance Research)
Dates:
Friday, 4/12
1, 2, Infinite/180 Minutes (working title) by Caitlin Adams
OPEN STUDIO DETAILS:
Where: Center for Performance Research, 361 Manhattan Ave.
When: March 17
Please arrive between 7-7:30
From 7:30-8:30 we will perform the work.
“PROJECT DETAILS:
Thesis:
Over the course of one year, starting in July 2023, I will hold one session per month. During each session, I will set a score on a varying number of dancers and musicians. Scores are written prior to each rehearsal, and also transcribed live to text in the studio by a designated transcriber. During these 180 minutes of each session, whatever is made becomes the completed work. The year will end with 12 completed works, a massive archive of video/text/photo/participants/material, and a book of movement scores.
Participant Experience:
Come as you are!
First, we gather and warm-up as a group. We participate in a movement and vocal/sound warm-up. Then dancers and musicians share the space for 10 minutes of improvisational play. Once we have a sip of water, we embark on building a mutually receptive, inclusive score for dancers and musicians. The scores all vary but these are a handful of themes I am thinking about – rules, parameters, equations, coding, culture, mapping, vulnerability, unison, sequence, opposing dynamics, neutral, translation, transportation, solo vs ensemble...
March 17 Score
will cherry-pick from each score developed since July 2023 ending in a coda of new ideas”
- Caitlin Adams, director/choreographer
Four Statements on Attention
Four Statements on Attention
Choreographed by Eve Jacobs. Performed by Eve Jacobs, Alexander Anderson, Jay Beardsley & Savannah Jade Dobbs.
Saturday, 3/9/24 at at Hunter College, the Peggy theatre
"A danced thesis on the art of paying attention, I choreographed this work in an attempt to illustrate the sharpening effect that dance has on my mind. The process was enlivened by a sense of collaboration between all four members of the cast. Each dancer brings something unique to the work; each dancer is a statement on attention." - Eve Jacobs
Process video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obu2IOZK2QI
A behind the scenes look at Four Statements on Attention, choreographed by Eve Jacobs in 2024. Film by Alexander Trowbridge & Eve Jacobs
Merce Cunningham: Events Workshop
Merce Cunningham: Events workshop
Events
Aug 14-25, 2023
Fellowship Led by Kimberly Bartosik, Brandon Collwes
New York, NY
NACHMOX: Out Loud! - Premiere of “Living Room”
https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/nachmox-out-loud
NVA & Guests Summer Workshop Showing
http://www.nvonarx.com/classes-workshops
Photos: Jim Lafferty @jimlafferty
Synaptic People
Synaptic
NYC events connecting electronic sound and human movement
https://www.instagram.com/synaptic.people/
Improv Jam, Brooklyn, NY.
“Time in Flow” Act 1, scene 2
I will be choreographing a solo at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater on Feb. 4th, 2023, 2-4 pm EST., for Swan’s Ballet Center’s Performance “Time In Flow”.
https://www.swansballetcenter.com/
Location:
< Jeanne Rimsky Theater >
LANDMARK ON MAIN STREET
232 MAIN STREET, SUITE 1
PORT WASHINGTON, NY 11050
Phone: (516) 767-1384
ADA Performance Festival: Homage
“Homage” at The American Dance Guild Performance Festival, Saturday, Dec. 3rd