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In 2008, Triskelion Arts received its sixth Outer/Space grant! Outer/space is a program of Dance Theater Workshop and is supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Council.
In summer 2007, Triskelion once again partnered with The Field for a 5th consecutive year in dedicating 30 hours of free rehearsal space to one of The Field's space grant recipients.
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CHECK OUT THE COMING SHOWS PAGE of the site to see what shows are happening at Triskelion!
Recent Events at Triskelion and beyond
SHBA Danceworks and XDrop Presented:
All We Have Left, an evening of dance and art on July 25, 2008. The evening included choreography from Sarah Holmes, Lily Cattaneo, Anya Porter, iN.D.dance/Nicole Durfee & Dancers, Project 423, and a photo exhibit from SeBiArt.
BRYAN HAYES & TINA CROLL / NEW DANCES IN PROGRESS
Bryan Hayes & Tina Croll presented an informal program of new dances and video on Saturday & Sunday, June 28th and 29th at Triskelion Arts. The program featured a new duet by Tina Croll & Bryan Hayes titled Little Impromptu, a structured theatrical improvisation to short pieces by Anton Webern. Ms. Croll also performed her solo Burning Lakeas well as Three Episodes (Question, Disturbance, Simplicity). Bryan Hayes and Alexis Steeves presented Hayes’ new duet Sky Wheel, a dance mandala of formal simplicity which gradually gains motoric propulsion and spatial complexity. The music was from works by John Adams and Amy Beach. Also included on the program was Doubles From Being There, a short dance video by Bryan Hayes made in collaboration with choreographer Rosalind Newman from her 2006 quartet Being There.
Launch Movement Experiment (Rachel McKinstry & Kendra Portier) and The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine (Anne Zuerner) paired up June 12-14, to present an evening of engaging experimental dance. Known for their unique movement styles and innovative dance making, the two companies showed latest creations. Ana Isabel Keilson joined the evening presenting her latest solo work.
for more info:
launchmovementexperiment.com
web.mac.com/aazuerner
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's Zerosum
a harmlessly interactive night of dance and gaming premiered May 30-June 1 and June 5-8. Conceived by Abby Bender and Jeremy Wilson with original music by Eli Orling. Costumes and sets by Emily Taradash and Abby Bender Zerosum was choreographed and performed by Abby Bender, Rebecca Bone**, Lyz Merida, Shelley Pinard, Natasha Ross, Rebecca Frank, Sarah Seely, Jonathan Ciccarelli, Katie Federowicz, Sara Edwards, Julia Peck, Justin Francavilla, Kate Kaminski, Katie O’Neill*, Reshma Patel, Ydhelca Perez, Bathsheba Squires, Tradon Turner, Marisa Gruneberg and Johnny De Arden
The Circus of Epic Disproportions was presented to packed houses May 2-4, and 9-11, 2008. Cirque This' best show yet, the performance featured Hula Hoop and ball juggling and acrobatics, wily animal antics, scientists, vermin, and, of course, a live band! May 9th's show included Art Farm’s Circus for A Fragile Planet.
Leanne Schmidt and Company presented
me and you,
a new work investigating subtleties in relationships, the intricate, simple, honest and humorous,
at Triskelion on April 10-12, 2008
Triskelion Arts presented "Anna" March 27-29, performed by white road Dance Media and created by Marisa Gruneberg
"Anna," a quartet for four women, worked with Leo Tolstoi’s Anna Karenina as a conceptual base. Set in the American 1950s, the piece followed the colorful and dynamic interweavings of four characters’ physical and psychological bodies. As the narrative abstracts and momentum unfolded, a provocative portrait of human desire and sacrifice emerged.
Jennifer Neff and Richard Olson presented
"Yes, Really!" March 6-7, 2008
WAXworks at Triskelion Arts
In September 2006, Triskelion officially became the new performance venue for WAXworks. WAXworks is a non-curated, performance showcase designed to help artists advance their creative process by viewing their work through written criticism from the objective eyes of a live audience. WAXworks showcases take place at Triskelion once a month. For information and a downloadable application, visit www.wax205.com/waxworks.php;. Application requests may also be made through the WAX voicemail system at 718-599-7997, or via email to series producer Jackie Moynahan at jackie@wax205.com.
Since beginning its residency at Triskelion Arts in fall of 2006, WAXworks has produced work dozens of artists and companies. For complete listings visit www.wax205.com.
Coriolis Dance Inc. presented RIBS, to sold-out houses February 24-26, 2008: original modern dance works by Elizabeth Dishman, with Jennifer Sydor and Donnell Oakley/Ani Weinstein. Vibrant, quirky, vigorous, moving, delightful, silly…effervescent.
Collective Dance NY presented "Flux" on December 14th and 15th, 2007. The performance featured choreography by Becky Radway, Danica Kalemdaroglu, Rachel Fachner, Meghan McCoy, Morgan Murphey and Megan Morse Jans.
4/4
An evening of dance, video and multi media works by Eva Perrotta/PowerPondusProjects/Kristina Skovby/Ana Gutierrez was presented on December 11, 2007.
Abby Bender, Andrew Dickerson and their immensely talented friends presented their annual almost famous benefit performance and live auction, "Rites of Passage" on Dec. 8th. It was an evening of unpredictable chutzpah benefitting Triskelion Arts. Over 130 people were in attendance and The Hazzards, Cousin Hubie, and Kate Elias & Ellen Smith gave stellar performances. Our notorious auction consisted of unbelievable stuff up for bid: unique services, high fashion, fine art photography & paintings, show tickets, excellent reads, vacation getaways, hot dates, and other treats beyond your wildest dreams! The night was emceed by Andrew Dickerson & Abby Bender. Thanks to all who attended and/or sent contributions!
Meg Hebert Dance presented REPEAT Friday, November 30th and Saturday, December 1st, an evening of new work by Meg Hebert Dance. Choreographed and created with the dancers and video artist Amanda Barrett. Performed by Carmen Epstein, Sara Murphy, Dana Prieto, Aaron Ramos, Christine Sampson. meghebertdance.org
Triskelion Arts proudly presented fivefour's Separation Anxiety: a non-clinical approach November 15-17, 2007. Choreographed & performed by fivefour/Cortney McGuire & Leah Nelson. Other performers included Ben Asriel, Kate Martel, Ali Ruszkowski, Rebecca Warner & Gali Wexler with original live music by Jeff Snyder
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's
GUTTERBALL
(a wilderness)
premiered in May, 2007 and was resurrected for Freefest in September and another full run in October, 2007.
Conceived and choreographed by Abby Bender in partership with the performers: Josie Carbone, Adam Davidson, Danielle DiCamillo,Sara Edwards, Katie Federowicz, Marcelle Hopkins, Kate Kaminski, Ken Lang, Lyz Merida, Mandana Mofidi, Christi Mueller, Janessa Olsen, Katie O'Neill, Reshma Patel, Julia Peck, Natasha Ross, Melissa SanFiorenzo, Bathsheba Squires, Emily Taradash, Tradon Turner, Pedro Jimenez and Tommy Wilkinson with collaborations on costumes with Emily Taradash, video with Akil Kraja and Loch Phillipps, sound with John McCloskey and sets with Paul Duffy. Lighting Design by Andrew Dickerson.
Click HERE for a review of the show!
Triskelion Arts proudly presented Jessica Gaynor Dance
Shifting Forward
New work and live music in collaboration with composer Quentin Tolimieri and the rock band Lady Lucille. Performers included, Karen Carbonell, Sundara Duncan, Charis Haines, Ashlie Kittleson, Renee Kurz, Blythe Proffitt, Jin Ju Song, and Angel Vasquez.
The NewWPA FreeFest celebrated its second year of neighborhoody loveTriskelion Arts & WAX, The Brick, Battle Ranch (formerly Studio 111) and Soundance teamed up to present 2 weekends of TOTALLY FREE performances! Triskelion presented Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre's Gutterball, a wildnerness, on Sept. 29th. On September 30th, we showed stellar work by Ian Spencer Bell, Rachel McKinstry & Liz Riga/Launch Movement Experiment, Peter Kyle Dance, Anne Zuerner/The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine, Bryon Carr, Jessica Gaynor Dance, everything smaller, Jackie Moynahan, Johanna Morris, Courtney Miller, and Marisa Gruneberg/white road Dance Media. Thanks to all who were involved!
With a tip of the hat to the Works Progress Administration, The New WPA (Williamsburg Performance Alliance) announced itself and its festival in the fall of 2006. The New WPA is a network of artists, venues and arts organizations that formed in order to share resources and increase the visibility of the performing arts in Williamsburg. Audiences for The New WPA FreeFest will be encouraged to walk from space to space on any given performance over the course of 2 weekends September 22nd and 23rd and 29th and 30th.
CIRQUE OFF!
Cirque This presented an evening of amazing clowning, juggling, acrobatics and more performed with the live band The Minor Setbacks on September 8, 2007. The show featured performances by The Artfarm Traveling Circus, Cassandra, Happenstance, Jared's sideshow, Radhika, Jefff Seal, Xaq, Uncle Jake and members of the Cirque This! cast
Built on Stilts, The Martha's Vineyard Dance & Performance Festival, directed by Abby Bender, recently celebrated it's ELEVENTH anniversary with 8 days of performances in August, 2006. Attracting over 60 choreographers from near and far, the festival continues to gain momentum. All are welcome to participate! Visit www.builtonstilts.org for more info.
Bryce Dance presented “In the Arroyo.” With special guests; Choreographers Kathryn Dunkel, Hannah Naiman, and Alissa Wilson, Composer Juliet Case, and Musicians Keith Sanders (viola) and Megan Schubert (soprano) July 21 - 22, 2007 at Triskelion.
Wobble a.k.a. Noelle Finamore, Todd Henry and Heather Zemeck in collaboration with the performers, presented an evening of work at Triskelion June 27-30 and July 1, 2007.
Launch Movement Experiment performances by Liz Riga & Rachel McKinstry
&
Anne Zuerner/
The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine
premiered
June 14-16th, 2007
at Triskelion to packed houses.
Cirque This!'
Circus of Do's and Don'ts premiered at Triskelion April 26-28 & May 3-5, 2007. May 3rd's show featured special guests The Oddfellows Playhouse Traveling Circus Company and every night included Cirque This' new band, The Cirque El Jerks. The performances were packed with fun-filled circus action the way only Cirque This can present!
Grotesque Picturesque, dances by Miriam Hess was presented at Triskelion March 28th-31st, 2007.
With Eric Clothier, guest artist Leigh Atwell/Carolyn Cryer/Jennifer Sydor.
Leanne Schmidt and Company presented "Wonderland, a dreamy new work , on March 23rd and 24th, 2007.
Triskelion Arts was delighted to present the premiere of everything smaller's totally rocking full-length work, Building it Up and Breaking It Down. The piece was performed to a packed house every night of its run February 22nd-24th, 2007. Choreographed and danced by everything smaller: jessica jolly, david schmidt, and donnell turner with collaborator and guest artist, John Peery with original music by Michael Wall and story told by Julie Finefrock. For more information about the company, visit everythingsmaller.com.
i.e. RVLP Productions presented
The House of Yes
at Triskelion February 14-16, 2007.
Starring Cara Coleman, Ibby Cizmar, Colleen Divincentis, Matt Jacobs and Robert Palmer. Directed by Luke Mohatt. Written by Wendy MacLeod. Art Direction by Keith Girard.
Three live performances and one dance film choreographed individually by Eva Perrotta, Kristina Skovby, Laura Gerber and Maia Sorensen, (all graduating dancers/choreographers from the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance) were performed to a full house on January 26, 2007.
Smoke and Mirrors certainly delivered its promise to stun, shock, and satisfy wiith stellar performances by Cirque This, everything smaller, Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre, JaxDance and New York's baddest two-girl ukelele band, The Hazzards, plus the musical stylings of Cousin Hubie.
The auction was emceed by Andrew Dickerson, resplendant in his tux and sequined codpiece as magician extraordinaire and a seriously hopped-up Abby Bender as his assistant (who is b.t.w. forever indebted to everyone who pulled this thing off!) The gorgeous team of robbinschilds carried on their famous tradition as showgirls for the auction offerings which featured amazing stuff such as vacation getaways, fine art, unique services and show tickets. All told, the benefit generated an unprecedented amount of binging, fun, entertaining humiliation and PROFIT! Thanks to the incredible group of donors, volunteers, performers and attendees who have made it possible for Triskelion to keep doing what it needs to do to serve artists. Bravo!
Collective Dance NY presented their second full-length production, In Transit, on December 1st and 2nd, 2006. Choreographers included Becky Radway, Danica Kalemdaroglu, Rachel Fachner, Meghan McCoy and Nicole Durfee. Contact collectivedanceny@yahoo.com for more info.
fivefour presented
us and FRIENDS
November 16th-18th, 2006.
The performance featured work by Cortney McGuire & Leah Nelson, Kate Martel, launch movement experiment, Alison Harmer, and Anne Zeurner with lighting Design by Megan Byrne and original music by Jeff Snyder.
"If it is our quirks that make us undeniably who we are fivefour makes these quirks more or less public property."
Jessica Kondrath/lux dance presented balli per i miei amici. Nov. 4th & 5th, 2006. The evening included the premieres of I’m Glad You’re Coming With Me On This and In The Presence of Shadows. Also performed Lack of That by choreographer Amy Osgood, which responds to the varying dynamic between people as they interact and Kondrath’s quirky and fanciful Lex.
As a founding organization of The New Williamsburg Peformance Alliance (NewWPA), Triskelion Arts participated in the Williamsburg Free Fest on September 30th and October 1st, 2006. 2 full days of free performances at Triskelion, The Brick, Soundance, Studio 111 and The Cave and Galapagos. Triskelion was honored to present work by Will Rawls, Marisa Gruneberg/White Road Dance Media, Heather McArdle, everything smaller, Bryon Carr/Lightcurve Dance, Stephanie Sleeper, JaxDance, Jessica Gaynor and from its own resident companies Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre and Cirque This. Hundreds of new audience members attended the free shows.
Songs from the Pac-Man & Loose Ladies, 2 original musicals by The Bureau were presented at Triskelion Sept. 7th-9th, 2006.
The Yard on Martha's Vineyard presented "Comedy and Classics," on July 24th, 2006, a shared program to benefit Built on Stilts and The Yard. The performance featured three revised BOS favorites by Stilts' director, Abby Bender alongside the masterwork "The Moors Pavane" and classic solos from the Limón Dance Company. It was an unusual and engaging pairing performed to a packed house. Click here for more info. Abby's "Septic Crisis", "Piqued", and "Sleeping Giants" were performed by Lyz Merida, Sara Edwards, Zoe Schieber, Jeong-min Michelle Lee, Danielle Loustau-Williams, and Alexis Cohn from NY and Laura Sargent Hall, Roberta Kirn, Alexis Iammarino and Nora Laudani from the Vineyard.
Choreographer Hilary Maia Grubb brought writer/spoken word artist alysseum's book-length written album Number Ten Dream to the stage in this evening-length performance extravaganza on June 9th and 10th at Triskelion. Number Ten Dream was s a work of movement, theater, poetry, and profanity which navigated the chaos of the soul through its earthly orifices, and featured a Greek chorus of deranged ballerinas, a human setpiece, and a host of characters who were off their conkers. The show exposed the grotesquerie of the human experience in a gritty live performance experiment.
Dixon Mena & Michelle Savage-Mena presented Paroxysm June 1st-4th, 2006.
Triskelion presented its resident circus, "Sleeping with Cirque This", a new circus odyssey into the beautiful, bizarre and bloodcurdling of the subconscious mind, May 24-28th.
Abby Bender Schmantze Theatre premiered ZOO at Triskelion May 11-13 and 18-20, 2006. Her amazing company of twenty performed this wild new work exploring our animal natures to packed houses for its spring run and resurrected the piece for an encore performance in fall of 2006. ZOO featured Kenneth Lang, Marisa Gruneberg, Jackie Moynahan, Hilary Maia Grubb, Megan Demarkis, TraDon Turner, Janessa Olsen, Josie Carbone, Jessica Seeman, Tommy Wilkinson, Kate Kaminski, Marissa A. Schoenfeld, Cristiano Veracosa, Danielle Loustau-Williams, Carlo Fiorletta, Abby Bender, Rachael Vacharasovan, Yuka Ogata, Julia Peck, and Katie O'Neill with lighting design by Brian Aldous and video by Cree Nevins.
Triskelion Arts presented JaxDance's premiere of
P i e c e s April 27th-29th. Jackie Moynahan's Pieces challenged the different parts of one's self to find out; without which do we fall apart? The choreographer explored the emotional, physical, and mental side of this question with company members Kimberly Goss, and Leanne Schmidt and featured costumes by Stephanie Gene Sleeper and sound design by Allen Willner. For more info on JaxDance, visit www.jaxdance.com.
Collective Dance NY presented its show here/restless April 7th-8th at Triskelion. The performance brought together five emerging artists from the NY and DC area to present a series of vignettes that wandered from solo to full group work, from slow and systematic to quick and desperate. (Choreography by Becky Radway, Danica Kalemdaroglu, Meghan McCoy, Rachel Fachner and Kate Martel- in collaboration with Leah Nelson and Cortney McGuire.) Please visit Collective Dance NY's website for more information: www.geocities.com/collectivedanceny
Triskelion Arts presented white road Dance Media's Character Assassination March 28th-April 1st, 2006. Marisa Gruneberg, Ashley Singletary and their bold thirteen member company performed eight new works of physical daring, subtlely, and under the table Kodachrome attractions. . Visit them at www.whiteroaddancemedia.com
 Thanks to the building skills of the amazing David Tirosh, Triskelion's new Studio B boasts a well-sprung, beautiful floor! Triskelion Arts announced the opening of STUDIO B, its second rehearsal studio, adjacent to the original space, in March, 2006. The studio, though smaller, is being offered at a low rental rate and allows the organization greater flexibility in the hopes of accomodating the ever-increasing number of artists in need of quality rehearsal space.
The Magic Caravan and special guest Chris Rozzi, exploded on Triskelion's stage February 3rd-5th, 2006 with their unique barrage of music, poetry, film and dark, wondrous humor.
Squeeze Machine, a shared evening of dance featuring works by Daniel Linehan and Miriam Wolf, premiered at Triskelion on January 28th & 29th, 2006. The two dances that composed the show investigated the overwhelming pressures enmeshed in contemporary American life that force us to make constant, careless decisions. Both works posed the question, what does it mean when choices are being squeezed out of us, and what does it mean to employ free will? Squeeze Machine featured vigorous performances by dancers Anna Carapetyan, Michael Helland, Natalie Green, Sam Johnson, Daniel Linehan, and Miriam Wolf.
In conjunction with curator Dean Daderko, RobbinsChilds presented their first installment of C.L.U.E. (color location ultimate experience), a video/ performance/installation work by A.L. Steiner, A.J. Blandford and RobbinsChilds with live sound by Rosten Woo, at Triskelion on December 19th, 2005.
What's behind Door #3?On December 10th, 2005, Abby Bender & Andrew Dickerson presented Triskelion's annual action-packed fundraiser performance and auction. The evening included performances and appearances by: The Handsome Public, Perry Garvin, everything smaller, The Hazzards, Nora Laudani, robbinschilds, Saori Tsukada, Laura Sargent Hall with Roberta Kirn, Abby Bender & Anna Luckey. The event generated tremendous profit, thanks to the generosity of the over 100 guests in attendance and all the amazing donors and volunteers involved.
Maria Colaco Dance premiered EyeCandy
at Triskelion on November 11th, 12th, and 13th at Triskelion. The show was a great success--Keep your eyes peeled for news from this hilarious emerging company!
Jeremy Bieger and Manifold Motion presented Seed at Triskelion on September 25th, 2005. The show included live music, contemporary dance and three channels of video art .
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