Dancing in the altogether.NEW YORK CITY New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. -- The Joyce Theater's Altogether Different dance festival will return, January 4-23, with seven dance companies, each performing on three dates during the two-week seasons. Once again the series showcases the work of young experimental choreographers. In 1994 the emphasis will be on premieres and on an employment of theatrical resources usually not found in the Spartan downtown scene. Randy Warshaw Dance Company will present an evening-length work on themes of loneliness and community. Warshaw will collaborate with theater director Marcus Stern Marcus Stern is the Associate Director of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) as well as the A.R.T./MXAT's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. Stern lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has directed numerous productions for the A.R.T. , composer John Gromada John Gromada (b.1964) is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound designer. He is best known for his many scores for theatrical productions in New York on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres. , set designer James Schuette, and lighting designer Chris Akerlind. Schuette and Alerlind plan to experiment with decor that incorporates light-emitting devices. Warshaw says that the new work, untitled at press time, is partially inspired by Samuel Beckett's novel Company, that the piece is an outgrowth of his "Fictions of Relationship" program of 1991-1992, and that he seeks to ground the themes and emotions of his dance within a collaborative theatrical context. Doug Elkins Dance Company will be returning to New York City from tours to London, Vienna, and Montpellier, France. At the Joyce Elkins promises to present a recent work from the Montpellier season, More Wine for Polyphemus, to music by George Frideric Handel, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, and Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin, English pop music group formed in 1968 by guitarist Jimmy Page (1944–), singer Robert Plant (1948–), bassist John Paul Jones (1946–), and drummer John "Bonzo" Bonham (1948–80). . A premiere, Scott, Queen of Marys (with guest artists David Steinberg This article is about David Steinberg. For David A. Steinberg, see David A. Steinberg. For David H. Steinberg, see David H. Steinberg. David Steinberg and Willi Ninja) suggests the possibility of more plaids and tartans on the kilt-happy Elkins stage. [See Doug Elkins, Plunderer or New Age Choreographer?, page 80.] Bebe Miller Company will present three premieres, featuring collaborations with jazz clarinetist Don Byron Don Byron (born November 8 1958) is a composer, jazz clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone player. While he is considered a jazz musician, he is stylistically very adventurous, having recorded klezmer music, German lieder, Raymond Scott's "cartoon-jazz," a Jimi Hendrix song, and a , visual installation artist Caroline Beasley-Baker, and composer Robin Holcomb. Doug Varone Choreographer and director Doug Varone works in dance, theater, opera, film, television and fashion. In 2007 he created three major pieces for his own Doug Varone and Dancers – the full-length multi-media Dense Terrain at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Victorious and Dancers will return to the Joyce with Varone's Motet to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate Exsultate, Jubilate K. 165, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written in 1773. This religious solo motet was composed at the time Mozart was visiting Milan.[1] It was written for the castrato Venanzio Rauzzini, Mozart's favourite for his operas. , as well as two new works. Donna Uchizono's program will present her 1990 San Andreas (which includes her solo dance short tahitian temper with music by Tom Cora), and the 1992 solo Desiree. A new duet featuring Uchizono and Nikki Castro will be set to a commissioned score by Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris. Joe Goode Performance Group advertises itself as a "theater-dance hybrid." At the Joyce, the Group will present Convenience Boy, a vision of homelessness and runaways in the San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . Dancer, director, and performance artist Ann Carlson will revive her fabled Animals series, featuring live fauna. (She also hopes to have at least a portion of a new work ready for the Joyce season.) At press time Carlson was seeking a new goat, her previous collaborator from this species having recently died. Carlson says that she looks forward to the post-performance discussion of her work with the audience at the Joyce. She is also pleased to announce that the performances of Animals, which includes a spoken text, will be signed for the hearing-impaired. |
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