Little Theatre February 25 & 26, 2019 Laguardia Performing Arts Center 31-10 Thomson Ave, L.I.C, NY, 11101
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LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Steven Hitt...Artistic Producing Director Handan Ozbilgin...Associate Director/Artistic Director Rough Draft Festival Carmen Griffin...Theatre Operations Manager/Technical Director & Toni Foy...Education Outreach Coordinator Isabelle Marsico...Events Coordinator Caryn Campo...Finance Officer Mariah Sanchez...House Manager Scott Davis...Line Producer Juan Zapata...Graphic Designer Luisa Fer Alarcon...Video Editor/Designer Dayana Sanchez...Marketing Coordinator Technical Staf f Glenn Wilson...Stage Manager/Assistant Technical Director Melody Beal...Lighting Designer Alex Desir...Master Electrician Ronn Thomas...Sound Engineer Marland Harrison...Technician Denton Bailey...Technician Giovanni Perez...Technician Production Staff Patrick Anthony Surillo...Resident Stage Manager Cassandra Lynch...Props Master Hollis Duggans…Production Staff House Staff Marissa Bacchus Jason Berrera Julio Chabla Rachel Faria Anne Husmann Emily Johnson Rebecca Shrestha Winter Muniz LaGuardia Community College Dr. Gail O. Mellow...President Dr. Paul Arcario...Provost and Senior Vice President 31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, 11101 Little Theatre February 25 & 26, 2019 LaGuardia Performing Arts Center 31-10 Thomson Ave, L.I.C, NY, 11101 WWW.LPAC.NYC LPAC & MARE NOSTRUM ELEMENTS PRESENT ECS 2019 Selecting/Feedback Panelists & Mentors • Steven Hitt - Artistic Producing Director of LaGuardia Performing Arts Center • Christine Dakin - foremost exponent of the Martha Graham repertory and technique • K. Meira Goldberg - Flamenco dancer, choreographer, teacher and scholar • Raja Feather Kelly - Founder and Artistic Director of the feath3r theory • Jacqui Dugal - Artistic Director of DUGAL DANCE PROJECTS • Miki Orihara - Curator/director NuVu Dance Festival • Joyce Herring - Associate Artistic Director of Rioult Dance NY • Archie Burnett - House/vogue/waacking dancer and teacher • Arthur Aviles - Artistic Director of Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance • Diego Funes - Artistic Director De Funes Dance • Jonathan Campbell - Co-founder/Co-Artistic Director of MADBOOTS DANCE Dear friends, supporters, and audience members, • Brit Falcon - Artistic Director Falcon Dance • Derick K. Grant - Tap Dancer, choreographer, teacher Thank you for joining us for the sixth annual Emerging Choreographer Series • Hochi Asiatico - Artist/designer, owner Hochi Asiatico Studio (ECS). We are honored to have your presence as we celebrate this year’s participants. They were selected after an extremely competitive audition ECS 2019 Consultants • Production: Steven Hitt (LPAC, Artistic Producing Director) process, with over eighty applicants vying for six spots. • Finance: Ashley Browne (AB Go LLC, Financial Consultant) • Writing: Amy Harrison (Rioult Dance NY, Executive Director) • Grants: Daniel Bamba (Queens Council on the Arts, Grants and Residencies Manager) In the past six years, ECS has been established as an one-of-a-kind participatory • Scheduling: Nicola Iervasi (Mare Nostrum Elements, Artistic Director) mentoring program that provides up-and-coming choreographers with the • Dramaturgy: Kevin Albert (Mare Nostrum Elements, President) • Music/Sound: Jamie Amadruto (Composer, Sound Engineer) tools to create, develop and premiere a new finished work. Through our • Costume: Hochi Asiatico (Artist/Designer) partnerships with LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC), Spaceworks NYC • Lighting: Christopher Weston (Lighting Designer) and American Tap Dance Foundation, participants receive up to 60 hours of • Tech: Carmen Griffin (Technical Director at LPAC) free rehearsal space. They also receive production and career development ECS Forward/Alumni News consultations from professionals in the field, one-on-one mentorship from In our commitment to support choreographers even after the program, we established ECS Forward, a established choreographers, as well as weekly meetings to exchange ideas with platform aimed at facilitating mutual support among alumni, feedback and sense of community. Activities fellow choreographers. include social gatherings, studio feedback as well as administrative and business support. We also strive to connect them with venues and opportunities to continue to investigate, produce and perform their work. We strongly believe and advocate for fair pay for artists, for ECS 2019 we Mare Nostrum Elements and LaGuardia Performing Arts Center have been collaborating for 6 years, extended funding to increase remuneration for choreographers and dancers nurturing promising artists in our partnership and providing future opportunities through the CUNY Dance and we plan to keep increasing stipends for next year. Last April MNE’s Initiative and NuVu Dance Festival. Artistic Director Nicola Iervasi traveled to Italy and selected Italian Rohan Bhargava (ECS ‘17) and his company Rovaco Dance have been working on a new dance-theater choreographer Alisia Ialicicco to join the ECS as a cultural exchange experience production premiering at LPAC on April 18th and 19th, 2019. This work revolves around intimacy, sex, and between ECS and our exclusive Italian partner Accademia Nazionale di Danza. addiction. It is supported by a two-year residency from CUNY Dance Initiative. Patrick O’Brien (ECS ‘17 & ‘18) is the CUNY Dance Initiative recipient for 2018-19 at LPAC. For ECS 2019 We are extremely proud and grateful for all ECS 2019 choreographers, he was selected as alumni guest artist to present a work in progress of Illicit Acquirement that will premiere dancers, staff and collaborators. We also thank you for joining us in support of at LPAC in Fall 2019. the program and most importantly for believing in the future generation of Susanne McHugh was selected to premiere a new section of Oblivion at IDACO NYC on May22-23-24, dance makers. 2019 at the Sheen Center. Enjoy the show, Christina Carminicci is currently working on When the Smoke Clears, a full-evening work debuting March 29th at the Triad Theater (www.triadnyc.com). Nicola Iervasi & Kevin Albert (ECS Directors) Thryn Saxon was selected to present her work at LPAC on May 2, 2019 for NuVu Dance Festival. Additional ECS Forward collaborating venues include the International Human Rights Arts Festival (IHRAF), and American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF). Mare Nostrum Elements Honorary Board 39-48 64th Street, Hochi Asiatico, Ronnee Segal ECS 2019 CHOREOGRAPHERS 2nd floor Woodside, NY 11377 Advisory Panel Brinton Parson, Igal Perry, Kaity Sinanis, Steven Email: [email protected] Hitt Website: www.mnelements.org Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Vimeo MNE Staff Jacqui Dugal - Operations Associate Mare Nostrum Elements (MNE) is a Collin Ranf – Marketing and Media Coordinator Woodside based Dance and Theater non- Phoebe Sandford - Development Associate profi t dedicated to developing collaborative, Mauro Carichini – Graphic Designer emotionally driven stage work blending dance, Gisella Sorrentino – Photographer theater, music, and movement of many Angelo Silvio Vasta - Videographer cultures. Susan Bednarczyk – Grant writer LISIA HRISTINA OLLY Founded in 2001 by Italian performer Nicola Mare Nostrum Elements proudly A C D Iervasi and American actor/director Kevin salutes and thanks all individuals, foundations IALICICCO CARMINUCCI SFEIR Albert the company has created original and sponsors supporting the Emerging International Choreographer multidisciplinary works (Mediterranean Voices, Choreographer Series 2019 and all other Last Chance), produced Off-Broadway shows MNE activities this year. (The Crucible, Biography) and presented work by emerging choreographers. In 2013 Anonymous (3), Robert Sr. and Annette MNE co-produced the Italian International Albert, Bob and Beth Albert, Raul Argudin, Dance Festival and the Italian Theater Festival Michele Ateyeh, Leslie Bains, Jane Bergere, Mia In Scena, presenting 3 plays by Mario Fratti at Berman, Matthew Blank, Kevin Brockman, the Secret Theater in Long Island City. Scott Bromley & Tony Impavido, Brooks and Distler, Leslie Bryant, Tom Cody, T. A. Cox, In 2002 Nicola and Kevin started gathering Barbara Cutler & James Emden, Gerald Dabbs, tools and knowledge from their training and Ellen David, Eve Ellis & Annette Niemtzow, performance careers to creating The Wave Jane & Leland Englebardt, Barbara Flood, Within Method providing working performers, Richard Freundlich, Matthew Garfield, students, and young adults with more Christopher C. Gates, Jane Gelfman, Wendy comprehensive performance tools. The Wave Gimbel & Douglas Liebhafsky, E. Robert & JOE THRYN Within workshops and intensives have been Barbara Goodkind, James Haag, Joseph Hardy, GARRETT offered at schools and festivals throughout Bill Hutton, Ondree & Don Isreal, George PARKER MONTELEONE SAXON New York and Italy. In 2010 the method was Jordan, Wayne Kabak, Jeffrey and Sandra adapted for children K-12 with the name The Kallenberg, Antonia Lanzi, Marc Leavitt, Pat Returning Choreographer Young Wave and offered in public and private Lee, Mr. Sacha Levy, Anita Lobel, Shirley Lord schools, dance and acting schools in New Rosenthal, Tripp March, Doris and David May, York, Vermont and Italy. Gabe Miller, Pamela Moller Kareman, Irene Neves, Barbara and Emery Olcott, Anthony The Emerging Choreographer Series, Paradiso, Brinton Parson, Dr. Alice Pisciotto, established in 2013, is Mare Nostrum Dean Pitchford, Stephanie and Christopher Elements latest development. In 2015 MNE’s Porterfield, Deborah Reinish & Michael commitment to emerging artists through the Theodore, Kathy P. Robbins, Daryl Roth ECS received