Dance

Alejandra Martorell

Alejandra Martorell makes dance pieces that marry choreographed material with improvisation. She was a founding member of Viveca Vazquez's dance troupe, Taller de Otra Cosa. She was a 1998-2000 Artist-in-Residence with Movement Research with a grant from the Eduard and Sally Van Lier Fund. In May 2003, PS122 presented her first full-evening work, m.o. (modus operandi). Other work has been presented at Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, Painted Bride in Philadelphia, Studio 303 in Montreal and several theaters in Puerto Rico.

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AMDaT

The Company AMDaT is a New York based ensemble of dancers and designers established in 1998 by Swiss born director/choreographer, visual artist and performer Andrea Haenggi. The company is dedicated to creating visual motion constructions, live performances of contemporary dance that cross boundaries between art disciplines (video, film, architecture) and technology and find new possibilities for presentations in nontraditional sites and theaters.

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Andrea Haenggi

Andrea Haenggi is a New York-based, Swiss born a choreographer, visual artist, performer and artistic director/founder of AMDaT, a Dance Arts Company that creates and produces live-performances of visual motion constructions: site-specific dance video installations and multimedia stage works that combine contemporary dance with visual art, prosaic architecture, and technology.

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Ann Liv Young

On stage, Ann Liv Young has rolled around in her dog’s ashes, had sex with her co-stars, covered herself in blood, drank urine and attacked a PETA activist. Off stage, she has given the audience lap dances and ridiculed  her own cast for fucking up during a performance.

As a graduate of the prestigious Hollins University dance program, as well as a former resident of the FUSED program in France and the Laban Centre in London, Ann Liv’s work has been presented at some of the most notable venues and festivals around America and Europe. Her shows, which she writes, performs, costume designs, stage designs and produces herself, are over-the-top performances that genre-bend elements of music video, porn, and fine art that really do go there.

Performer

Chez Bushwick

Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, is dedicated to the advancement of interdisciplinary art and performance, with a strong focus on new choreography. Since its inception in 2002, the organization has been acknowledged as a new model for economic sustainability in the performing arts, offering New York City's only $5 subsidy for rehearsal space, and thereby fostering the creation, development, and performance of new work.

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Chocolate Factory

The Chocolate Factory values the process of creation and the spirit of experimentation. The work of our founding artists and our dedication to supporting the creation of new work by Visiting Artists bears this out. Theater Et Al, the company from which The Chocolate Factory emerged, was for many years an itinerant producing organization, renting theaters and rehearsal spaces by the hour.

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Collage Dance Theatre

Collage Dance Theatre (CDT) was founded in 1987 by Artistic Director and Choreographer Heidi Duckler. The company’s early works, designed for the stage, dealt with contemporary culture and its artifacts: hairdryers, fast food, used cars. Duckler's first site-specific work was Laundromatinee, performed at the Thriftywash Laundromat in Santa Monica, California. In 1989, Ancient Terrain, a multi-generational piece with a cast ranging in age from 8 to 80, was performed at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and incorporated video shot at Vasquez Rocks.

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CPR - Center for Performance Research

CPR is located at 361 Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and is the singular new development for the performing arts in Brooklyn’s first L.E.E.D.-certified green building of its kind. This 4,000 square foot arts facility is an artist driven initiative co-founded by Jonah Bokaer/Chez Bushwick, Inc.

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Dance Theater Workshop

One of America’s preeminent performing arts institutions, Dance Theater Workshop maintains an uncompromising mission to identify, present, and support independent contemporary artists and companies to advance dance and live performance in New York and worldwide.

Dance Theater Workshop is a center for the development and presentation of contemporary dance and performance, and for the artists who create it. Dance Theater Workshop fully presents over 110 performances by some 45 different artists and companies each year.

Now entering our fifth decade as a leading performing arts center, Dance Theater Workshop has grown into a multi-faceted organization that provides professional programs and resources to independent artists, and cultivates public involvement in the arts.

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HERE

HERE builds a community that nurtures career artists as they create innovative hybrid live performance in theatre, dance, music, puppetry, media and visual art. Our artist residencies support the singular vision of the lead artist through commissions, long-term development, and production support. HERE's programs and performances promote relationships among local, national, and international artists. Our space is a destination for audiences who are passionate about ground-breaking contemporary work and the creative process behind it.

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