Dance. Workforce. Resilience. Initiative
Monday, May 12, 2014
Town Hall: Meet the Choreographers
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When: Monday, May 12, 2014, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Where: Gallim Dance Studio (c/o Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew), 520 Clinton Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Join Dance/NYC for a free town hall discussion with a trio of NYC-based rising choreographers — Kyle Abraham, Brian Brooks and Andrea Miller — featured in the Crain’s New York Business article, “All they want to do is dance”. Visit with these artists to learn how, as Miriam Souccar says, "they are taking center stage to shape the art form.” How do they face the challenges and barriers to pursuing a career in choreography? What new practices and approaches are they exploring both artistically and financially as they build their companies?
Artists
2013 MacArthur Fellow and current Resident Commissioned Artists at New York Live Arts 2012-2014, Kyle Abraham, (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a 2012 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award recipient and 2012 USA Ford Fellow. In 2010, he received a prestigious Bessie Award for Outstanding Performance in Dance for his work in The Radio Show, and a Princess Grace Award for Choreography in 2010. The previous year, he was selected as one of Dance Magazine’s 25 To Watch for 2009. In 2011, OUT Magazine labeled Abraham as the “best and brightest creative talent to emerge in New York City in the age of Obama”.
Brian Brooks was awarded with a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a proud recipient of the NY City Center Choreography Fellowship (2012-2013), the Jerome Robbins New Essential Works Grant (2013) and the Joyce Theater’s Artist Residency (2013-2014). He is creating new work on dancers from NY City Ballet for the third consecutive year, commissioned by Damian Woetzel for the Vail International Dance Festival. Brooks recently choreographed director Julie Taymor’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as the inaugural performance of Theatre for a New Audience’s Brooklyn home. He is touring internationally with NY City Ballet Principal Dancer Wendy Whelan, performing his duet First Fall as part of her "Restless Creature" project.
His dance group, the Brian Brooks Moving Company, has toured throughout the US, South Korea and in Germany, and was recently presented by BAM in their 2013 Next Wave Festival. As a Guest Artist, he has created new dances at schools including The Juilliard School, Skidmore College, Rutgers University, Princeton University, Barnard College of Columbia University, Alfred University, the University of Maryland at College Park and Illinois State University. Brooks has served on the faculty at both Rutgers and Princeton, and was a Teaching Artist at Lincoln Center Institute from 1999-2012.
Andrea Miller is the founder, artistic director, and choreographer of New York-based company Gallim Dance. Through a plural body of work that explores the relationships of movement with other forms of expression including theater, visual arts, music, and politics, Miller has developed a recognizable artistic language of extreme physicality and unprejudiced emotionality. In 2014, Miller received the honor of being named a Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, for demonstrating exceptional creative ability. New York Magazine writes, “Her viscerally physical movement wrings every inch of life from her dancers — and you’ll be holding your breath, too.”
Miller’s choreography for Gallim Dance has been commissioned and performed nationally and internationally, including by Peak Performances at Montclair State University (NJ), and Dancers’ Workshop — Jackson Hole. Gallim has performed worldwide in premier venues including Guggenheim Works & Process, New York City Center, the Joyce Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the TANZ Bremen Festival in Germany, Madrid en Danza in Spain, and the Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris. Commissioned works for Miller include In Medias Res (2012) for the Nederlands Dans Theater 2; Howl (2010) presented at the Royal Opera House of London by Ballet Bern; For Play (2012) for Ballet Bern; and choreography for Phantom Limb’s production 69° South for BAM’s Next Wave (2011). Two of her most critically acclaimed pieces, Blush (2009) and Wonderland (2010) were presented in 2013 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Théâtre National de Chaillot, respectively. Her commercial and art direction work includes an installation for Hermès, Paris, movement work for VOGUE Diaries, choreography for the film The Life and Death of Mick Rock with original music by The Flaming Lips, and an installation for Faberge. Miller has also served as Associate Artistic Director of Noord Nederlands Dans from 2010-2011.
Moderated by Shannon Houston, Gallim Dance, Board Liaison.
