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For Immediate Release New York Live Arts Announces Newly For Immediate Release Elizabeth Cooke Associate Director of Communications [email protected] (212) 691-6500 x210 New York Live Arts Announces Newly Focused New Works Residency Artists Program for 2015-2016 Season Okwui Okpokwasili Selected as 2015-2017 Resident Commissioned Artist New York, NY, July 13, 2015 – New York Live Arts today announced the recipients of a number of new works residency programs for the 2015-16 season and beyond as part of its newly envisioned new work development program, reflecting a renewed, industry-leading commitment to the support of the creative process. The celebrated New York-based writer, performer and choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili will be the organization’s third recipient of the Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) award, the largest of its kind in the nation. Andrea Kleine, Sonya Tayeh, Adrienne Truscott, Preeti Vasudevan, Larissa Velez-Jackson and Gillian Walsh have been curated to develop new work to premiere in future seasons on the New York Live Arts stage through the Live Feed Program (formerly Studio Series). Live Arts’ resident artists reflect the organization’s unparalleled commitment to developing new work and supporting the artist’s creative growth. The organization’s three Resident Artist programs include the Resident Commissioned Artist, the Live Feed Program and the Fresh Tracks Program. These wide-ranging residency programs cover new project development for artists at all stages of their careers from conception to premiere, offering infrastructural, networking and production support. “Live Arts has established itself as one of New York City’s most exciting and vital arts organizations, and with that comes an immense responsibility to significantly and continually further the support of artists,” said Thomas O. Kriegsmann, Director of Programs. “We are incredibly proud to begin this two-year journey with Okwui, as well as extend and clarify our commitment to the artists’ creation of new work, a vital element of any city’s thriving artistic milieu.” During her tenure as RCA, Okpokwasili will develop her newest multi-disciplinary performance piece, Poor People’s TV Room. Rooted in a kinetic history surrounding the women’s resistance movement in Nigeria, the work draws from historical events to explore the amnesia around collective action initiated by African women, building a dystopian narrative around the impact of that erasure. Created with collaborator Peter Born, the work integrates choreography, song, text and film to make a visceral performance where the past and present collide. Poor People’s TV Room will be presented at the end of Live Arts’ 2016-17 season. Additionally, Bronx Gothic, Okpokwasili’s celebrated work at the intersection of theater, dance and visual art installation, will be specially envisioned for the Live Arts stage and presented in October 2015. “I am thrilled to be named Live Arts’ newest RCA, and to receive the depth of support that this award and commission brings,” said Okpokwasili. “I now have a two year span where my greatest concern can be the breadth of my imagination and the rigor of my practice. I look forward to this collaboration with New York Live Arts." The Resident Commissioned Artist (RCA) Award, the highest tier of artistic support offered by New York Live Arts, is an unprecedented initiative that is the largest of its kind in the United States. Awarded to an outstanding mid-career artist, the program provides nearly $200,000 in direct support, including a salary each year for two years plus full health benefits, two years of residency time and a commission of a new work or works to premiere at New York Live Arts. Past Live Arts RCA’s have included Yasuko Yokoshi and Kyle Abraham. New York Live Arts' Resident Commissioned Artist program is made possible through a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The second tier of residency support is the new works residency program entitled Live Feed (formerly Studio Series), offering artists sight unseen commitment to premiering work on Live Arts’ stage within the two years following the artist’s completion of the Live Feed residency. Live Arts provides the Live Feed artists space and support in various forms, from residency to administrative, development and production. Next year’s program will support the following six artists at various stages of their careers in building the foundation of their next major work: Andrea Kleine, Sonya Tayeh, Adrienne Truscott, Preeti Vasudevan, Larissa Velez Jackson and Gillian Walsh. The artists were chosen for their recent track-record of ambitious new work, the scope and nature of their planned projects and their respective place in New York Live Arts’ vision. The projects presented by the 2015-16 Live Feed artists run the gamut from Vasudevan’s multimedia, Bharatanatyam-inspired Stories by Hand in collaboration with multimedia artist Paul Kaiser to Larissa Velez- Jackson’s further investigation of her outlandish queer family band, YACKEZ. The Emmy-nominated Tayeh will use the residency to work on You’ll Still Call Me By Name (working title), a cathartic dance-symphony created in collaboration with acclaimed indie folk duo The Bengsons, based on the emotionally charged dream-memoir of her deeply complex relationship with her mother, the extreme beauty and enlightenment of an individual's sudden transformation and the tumult it can cause for those around them; Kleine will present Torture Playlist, a work inspired by the music the US government inflicts on prisoners; Walsh will be developing a new work; and Truscott will present Wild Bore, a collaboration between three artists, distinctively created and rehearsed across the dancers’ three respective continents of origin. Dates for the 2015-16 Live Feed showings can be found in the listing info below. The third major new work development program—serving artists’ creative growth and opening a door into the Live Arts community—is the historic and widely lauded Fresh Tracks Residency Program, now in its 51st year. The program is among the oldest and most successful of its kind within a wide pool of new work residency programs provided in the region. Each year, five to six emerging choreographers are selected by a panel through a live audition process. Artists receive research, development, production and performance support across several months, including two public showings of in-process and fully realized works. Fresh Tracks provides opportunities for participating artists to engage directly with New York Live Arts staff, artists and arts professionals regarding their work within the context of the professional contemporary dance and performance field. Auditions will be held in September 2015, followed by public showings in February and June 2016. Listing info: Okwui Okpokwasili Bronx Gothic Oct 21–24 at 7:30pm Tickets start at $15 Sonya Tayeh You’ll Still Call Me By Name (working title) Dec 4 & 5, 2015, at 6pm Tickets: $8 Gillian Walsh Title TBD Feb 26 & 27, 2016, at 6pm Tickets: $8 Andrea Kleine Torture Playlist Mar 18 & 19, 2016, at 6pm Tickets: $8 Preeti Vasudevan Stories by Hand Apr 8 & 9, 2016, at 6pm Tickets: $8 Larissa Velez-Jackson Title TBD Apr 15 & 16, 2016, at 6pm Tickets: $8 Adrienne Truscott Wild Bore May 20 & 21, 2016, at 6pm Tickets: $8 Okwui Okpokwasili Poor People’s TV Room Spring 2017 Exact dates TBA About the Artists: Okwui Okpokwasili is a New York-based writer, performer and choreographer. In partnership with collaborator Peter Born, Okpokwasili creates multidisciplinary projects that are raw, intimate experiences. Their first New York production, Pent-Up: A Revenge Dance premiered at Performance Space 122 and received a 2010 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production; an immersive installation version was featured in the 2008 Prelude Festival. Their second collaboration, Bronx Gothic, won a 2014 New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Outstanding Production and continues to tour nationally and internationally. In June of 2014, they presented an installation version entitled Bronx Gothic: The Oval as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s River to River Festival. Their current project in development is Poor People’s TV Room, an early iteration of which was presented by Lincoln Center in the David Rubinstein Atrium in June 2014. As a performer, Okpokwasili frequently collaborates with award-winning director Ralph Lemon, including How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere?; Come home Charley Patton (for which she also won a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award); a duet performed at The Museum of Modern Art as part of On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century; and, most recently, Ralph Lemon’s Scaffold Room. She has appeared as an actor in many productions, including Nora Chipaumire’s Miriam; Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Kristin Marting’s Sounding; Young Jean Lee’s LEAR; Richard Foreman’s Maria del Bosco; Richard Maxwell’s Cowboys and Indians; and Joan Dark (The Goodman Theater/The Linz European Capital of Culture). Film credits include Malorie’s Final Score, Knut Åsdam’s Abyss, The Interpreter, The Hoax and I Am Legend. Okpokwasili‘s residencies and awards include The French American Cultural Exchange (2006-2007); Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography Choreographic Fellowship (2012); Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist- in-Residence (2013), NewYork Live Arts Studio Series (2013); Under Construction at the Park Avenue Armory (2013); New York Foundation for the Arts’ Fellowship in Choreography (2013); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Extended Life Program (2014-15); The Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ artist grant in dance (2014), BRIClab (2015), Columbia University (2015) and the Rauschenberg Residency (2015). Peter Born is a director, designer and filmmaker.
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