Dance Words Speak Peace
DANCE & MUSIC BY PATRICIA NICHOLSON
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Friday & Saturday October 7 & 8, 2005
CLEMENTE SOTO VELEZ, MILAGRO THEATER (107 Suffolk St. at Rivington)
7:30pm, Tickets: $12 available at the door.
Structured Improvised score for dance/music by Patricia Nicholson
Dance by Yoshiko Chuma, K.J. Holmes, Patricia Nicholson
Music by Billy Bang, violin & Joe Morris, bass, guitar
Video animation by Bob Craddock
ˆArt is a healing response to the world. It speaks from and to the intuitive in all of us. But Art does not deal with the literal. It deals with the Intuitive” - Patricia Nicholson
New York, NY - In Dance Words Speak Peace, a new dance/music composition by dancer/choreographer Patricia Nicholson, the role of artist as healer is explored. The piece utilizes a structured improvisational framework to implement choreographed compositional techniques rooted in avantJazz. Always interested in crossing boundaries, Nicholson brings artists together from different backgrounds who have not previously worked together. Her stress on improvisation within a structured framework allows each artist to display his/her own unique voice. The end result is a collaborative work that is expressive of Ms. Nicholson’s ongoing commitment to building community through art.
Patricia Nicholson is the director of PaNic, a dance/music ensemble founded in 1997. She is also the organizer and executive director of New York’s Vision Festival of jazz and arts. Her work displays eclecticism, borrowing freely from different traditions to create her own personal voice. Her philosophy of art is based on ever-expanding breadth, community, spirituality and social responsibility. She has presented her work to critical acclaim in festivals all over the world. In a recent performance, The New York Times’ John Rockwell recently said about Nicholson’s group PaNic: “Ms. Nicholson’s calm presence in the background, as her younger partners exerted themselves downstage, did have a nice poignancy.”
Yoshiko Chuma is theartistic director & choreographer of The School of Hard Knocks, USA and of the Daghdha Dance Company in Ireland. Chuma was born in Osaka, Japan and has lived in the United States since 1978. Chuma has created more than 45 full-length company works, commissions and site-specific events for venues across the world, constantly challenging the notion of performing for both audience and participant. Her work has been presented in New York in venues ranging from the Joyce Theater to the legendary annual Halloween Parade; and abroad in such locations as the former National Theater of Sarajevo, the perimeter of the Hong Kong harbor and at an ancient ruin in Macedonia. She has led workshops and master classes throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Russia and the U.S.
K.J. Holmes is a dancer, singer and poet who has been exploring improvisation in performance since 1981. She travels worldwide teaching and performing as a soloist and in the company of dance artists such as Ray Chung, Simone Forti, Lisa Nelson and Image Lab, and Steve Paxton, among many others. Holmes' commitment to the collaboration between dance and music continues to define and refine her practice of improvisation as a
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This performance is made possible in part by a grant from the Puffin Foundation.
For info visit
www.visionfestival.org or call 212-696-6681
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