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WELCOME TO AMERICAN REALNESS 2016! The festival turns SEVEN this year! I am so grateful for your ongoing presence, American Realness 2016 offers an expanded program of discursive activities engagement and participation. American Realness doesn’t exist without the including a series of public conversations led by Jenn Joy and Kelly Kivland, artists, staff, crew and especially the audiences, so thank you for being here Claudia La Rocco and Lane Czaplinski, Joshua Lubin-Levy and Thomas F. again or for the first time! Thanks also to Jay Wegman and the full staff of DeFrantz; original essays commissioned for READING, AR’s platform for Abrons Arts Center and Henry Street Settlement who help realize the program critical writing and CREATIVE DIFFERENCES a Movement Research workshop each year. Another huge thank you to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the keithwith Claudia La Rocco. Lambent Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, all of AR’s institutional and AR 2016 also presents not one, not two, but three parties, offering audiences a co-presenting partners: Performance Space 122, Sunday Sessions at MoMA PS1, chance to mingle outside the theater. The festival kicks off with a reception for Gibney Dance Center, Goethe-Institut, Cultural Services of the French Embassy Members of the House of Realness, features the all night blow-out DOWNLOAD in New York, Institut Francais, The Cultural Services of the Québec Government shared by The Culture Whore, and a Closing Night Soirée hosted by Kickstarter! Office in New York and Movement Research. And thanks especially to the Members of the House of Realness who have helped make this program Through visceral, visual, and text-based explorations of perception, sensation, possible with your individual contributions. form and attention, the artists of American Realness expose issues and questions
around identity, ritual, blackness, history, pop-culture, futurity, and consumption Featuring artists from across the US with a concentration of New York in an American-focused, globally-minded context. American Realness exposes makers and a small selection of international artists, American Realness 2016 the cracks in the façade: of the practice of art making; of the construction of includes: four world premieres from Erin Markey, Jillian Peña (co-presented contemporary society; of our increasing inability to slow down and really see, hear with Performance Space 122), The Bureau for the Future of Choreography and and think. American Realness is an opportunity to reclaim the reins and rewrite James and Jen McGinn; six US premieres from Jennifer Lacey / Antonija the narratives. Livingstone / Dominique Pétrin / Stephen Thompson, Keith Hennessy & Jassem Hindi, Yvonne Meier, Jonathan Capdevielle (co-presented with PS 122), Fernando For eleven days in January American Realness inhabits the Abrons Arts Center Belfiore and Mette Ingvartsen (presented by Sunday Sessions atM oMA PS1); and offers an opportunity to engage with the present. Get into it! three New York premieres from Ligia Lewis, Heather Kravas and Sara Shelton Mann, Keith Hennessy and Norman Rutherford; and seven encore engagements I’ll see you there. from keyon gaskin, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Antonio Ramos, M. Lamar, Milka Djordjevich & Chris Peck and Jack Ferver (presented by Gibney Dance Center). All together American Realness presents sixty-seven performances of twenty productions over eleven days. Feast on performance! I recommend purchasing at least one festival pass, which includes a ticket to six Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor AR 2016 performances at the Abrons Arts Center for $100! Founder, Curator & Producer
4 5 PERFORMANCE JENNIFER LACEY / ANTONIJA LIVINGSTONE / HEATHER KRAVAS
DOMINIQUE PETRIN / STEPHEN THOMPSON DEAD, DISAPPEARS NEW YORK PREMIERE Thursday, January 7, 8:30pm CULTURE ADMINISTRATION & TREMBLING US PREMIERE Friday, January 8, 8:30pm Saturday, January 9, 5:30pm & 8:30pm Thursday, January 7, 7:00pm & 8:00pm Sunday, January 10, 2:00pm & 8:30pm Friday, January 8, 5:30pm & 6:30pm Monday, January 11, 8:30pm Run time: 60 minutes Run Time: 55 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER, MAIN GALLERY ABRONS ARTS CENTER, STUDIO 1 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org
In this intimate and out-of-bounds choreographic salon, time-based sculptures dead, disappears is a new solo work created and performed by Heather Kravas. shift between the human and the animal, the real and the imaginary; a series of Striving to reconcile the immediate with the verifiable, the work cites Richard unexpected contemplative landscapes. Initiated by Antonija Livingstone in 2009 Serra’s 1967 Verb List in an investigation of self-referencing action. Kravas also as a partnership with Jennifer Lacey, the work is an ever-expanding display of regards her own body of work and her body itself as it moves through a a collection of Medicine Dances: co-created and performed with Montréal-based landscape of effortful states. Words and action vie for primacy, and language visual artist Dominique Pétrin, Stephen Thompson, guest artist Dana Michel, and eclipses movement with a litany of acts that could be performed by, for and on Berlin-based sound artist Brendan Dougherty. Culture Administration & Trembling the artist. Generating emotional intensity as a by-product of sensual formality, invites the public to spend time together to wonder about being a spectator, a dead, disappears invites the audience to view the performer as simultaneously witness, or a companion. woman and object – and to see their own observation as completion of the Culture Administration & Trembling was co-produced by Festival TransAmériques, Agora de la Danse, Studio artistic act. 303, Les Escales Improbables Montréal. With support from ImPulsTanz, Vienna, Centre Choréographique Nationale de Langedoc-Rousillion, Fabrik Potsdam, Osprey Arts Center. This presentation is supported in part dead, disappears is made possible with an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2014), by Canada Council for the Arts, Goethe-Institut and The Cultural Services of the Quebec Government office commissioning support from the OnEdge Festival/Santa Barbara Museum of Contemporary Art and in New York. additional support from Collective Address.
8 9 LIGIA LEWIS JAAMIL OLAWALE KOSOKO
SORROW SWAG NEW YORK PREMIERE #NEGROPHOBIA Thursday, January 7, 10:00pm Friday, January 8, 5:30pm Friday, January 8, 10:00pm Saturday, January 9, 8:30pm Sunday, January 10, 7:00pm Sunday, January 10, 5:30pm Run Time: 45 minutes Monday, January 11, 8:30pm Sunday, January 17, 1:00pm ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org Run Time: 75 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER, UNDERGROUND THEATER Sorrow Swag takes race and melancholy as points of departure for an experience 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org that unfolds through the language of sadness. Performed by Biran Getnick with musical accompaniment by George Lewis, Jr., of Twin Shadow, the performance #negrophobia examines the erotic fear associated with the black male body. uses texts and images derived from mid-century classical theater (Beckett and Jaamil Olawale Kosoko juxtaposes interior and exterior landscapes to expose a Anouilh) to interrogate race, authorship, gender, and grief. Sorrow Swag disrupts confessional identity-mashup where visual and performance aesthetics collide the canonical by means of an imaginative reformulation that prioritizes sensation. in a face-off of self-revelation, ecstatic theatricality, and discomfort. Part social The work takes place in an immersive visual and auditory space and uses color commentary and part self-critique, #negrophobia references issues related to as a synesthetic texture and emotional referent to produce a choreography that grief, misogyny, and black patriarchal constructs of masculinity housed within engages language, text, affect and embodiment. the chaotic frame of a body and mind on the verge of psychosomatic collapse. #negrophobia features UK based model, performance artist and night-life Sorrow Swag was produced with funding from the Berlin Senat’s Tanzstipendium with further support from Human Resources Los Angeles, ADA Studios Berlin, and a residency at Pieter Space LA. Sorrow Swag personality IMMA/MESS. is presented in collaboration with, and in part made possible by the generous support of the Goethe-Institut. #negrophobia was originally commissioned by Gibney Dance Center as part of their Making Space series with additional support from friends of anonymous bodies and the Philadelphia Cultural Fund with residency support from the Bushwick Starr and Miami Theater Center. Additional developmental support from Harlem Stage.
10 11 KEYON GASKIN FERNANDO BELFIORE
ITS NOT A THING AL13FB<3 US PREMIERE Friday, January 8, 7:00pm Saturday, January 9, 2:30pm Saturday, January 9, 10:00pm Sunday, January 10, 8:30pm Monday, January 11, 10:00pm Monday, January 11, 5:30pm Run Time: 40 minutes Tuesday, January 12, 8:30pm ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE Run Time: 45 minutes 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org ABRONS ARTS CENTER, UNDERGROUND THEATER 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org
“It is the transformation of substance that is my concern in art, rather than the traditional aesthetic understanding of beautiful appearances.” Joseph Beuys on Bathtub (1960)
Working from Beuys’s theory of art and transformation AL13FB<3 presents a series of encounters with objects to construct physical experiences and translate emotions. Leading the audience through a poetic and futuristic land- scape, Fernando Belfiore explores the potential of theatrical magic, reshaping his environment as an act of renewal. From the very domestic to epic, from sacred to profane, from pop to sci-fi, the work proposes a journey where the body changes its materiality and shifts pathways of understanding. AL13FB<3 is a trip through different frequencies; formed, informed, deformed and trans- formed by the body.
AL13FB<3 is produced by Dansmakers Amsterdam in collaboration with ICK Amsterdam, Z Zentrum für Proben und Forschung Frankfurt, Work Space Brussels, and Fabrica de Movimentos Porto. Additional support provided by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, AFK, Jonge Makers Fonds.
12 13 JILLIAN PEÑA KEITH HENNESSY & JASSEM HINDI
PANOPTICON WORLD PREMIERE FUTURE FRIEND/SHIPS US PREMIERE COMMISSIONED BY PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 AND LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL CO-PRESENTED WITH PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 Saturday, January 9, 7:00pm Sunday, January 10, 10:00pm Saturday, January 9, 4:00pm Tuesday, January 12, 10:00pm Sunday, January 10, 5:30pm Run Time: 60 minutes Monday, January 11, 10:00pm ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE Tuesday, January 12, 10:00pm 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org Saturday, January 16, 4:00pm Sunday, January 17, 2:30pm future friend/ships is made out of oracles, science fiction and childish Run Time: 50 minutes drone dances. ABRONS ARTS CENTER, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER Projecting oneself into the future is more often than not a privilege reserved to 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org a happy few, and a way to reproduce sameness. future friend/ships casts a different kind of physical fiction: we host the uninvited to conjure the curse. We Panopticon is a duet that is simultaneously a solo and a work for 100 dancers. are amateur oracles and oracle-making machines. We call upon fragments of Through choreographic reflections and multiplications, a kaleidoscopic arena of raging poetry, broken machines, dying animals, and plastic flowers. We use arab bodies is created: simultaneously seen as individuals and objects. Inspired by the future fiction and punk anxiety as excuses and models. We celebrate, among architectural concept of the panopticon, a structure in which everything is seen others, the poems of Nazik al Malaika and Donna Haraway. The more we generate at all times, this performance aims to achieve omniscient visibility. potential for transformation, the more we will be surprised by the future. Other- Panopticon is co-commissioned by Performance Space 122, the Jerome Foundation and Lower Manhattan ness hosts otherness. Cultural Council. Panopticon was developed as part of PS122’s RAMP residency series, ImPulsTanz/Dance- WEB and LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development program made possible in part by The Andrew W. Keith Hennessy and Jassem Hindi describe their work as poetic reaction to all Mellon Foundation. PS122 presentation support provided by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation the madness in the world and in themselves, as an anarchic-queer alternative for Dance and Jerome Robbins Foundation. discourse, which despite all of the fierce attacks it displays, is as much a magnifi- cent declaration of love to a world as it could be.
future friend/ships was created with support of Caroline Spellenberg, Nadine Jessen, Kampnagel, Circo Zero, and __hindiana_.
14 15 LARISSA VELEZ-JACKSON SARA SHELTON MANN, KEITH HENNESSY & STAR CRAP METHOD NORMAN RUTHERFORD PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
NEW YORK PREMIERE Saturday, January 9, 8:30pm SARA (THE SMUGGLER) Sunday, January 10, 8:30pm Monday, January 11, 7:00pm Wednesday, January 13, 10:00pm Tuesday, January 12, 7:00pm Thursday, January 14, 10:00pm Wednesday, January 13, 8:30pm Friday, January 15, 4:00pm Sunday, January 17, 5:30pm Run Time: 60 minutes Run Time: 90 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org ABRONS ARTS CENTER, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org Sara Shelton Mann has worked in dance for over fifty years, spending time in New York as a dancer for Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis before moving to Star Crap Method is Larissa Velez-Jackson’s compositional methodology that San Francisco, where she was a founding member of the radical experimental complicates and redefines the skill set of the contemporary dancer and functions dance-music-performance company Contraband from 1985–1994. Her work and as an absurd exposé of the inner workings of the dancer in process. Performers life in dance have influenced generations of Bay Area artists. Tyler Ashley, Talya Epstein and Larissa Velez-Jackson collectively compose the entire work in real time, including the sound score of live vocals and digital sound. A work about dance, history, lineage, friendship, healing, and love, Sara (the Bessie-award-winning lighting designer Kathy Kaufman improvises illumination smuggler) is a solo by the legendary Sara Shelton Mann, created in collaboration throughout. The work is founded on Velez-Jackson’s improvisational practice with Keith Hennessy and composer Norman Rutherford. The work is inspired that embraces technical brilliance and failure in equal measure, ushering in a form by Growing Up In Public, a performance by Lucas Hoving, choreographed by of interdisciplinary creative limitlessness with opportunities for great humor, Remy Charlip in 1984. and vulnerability. Sara (the smuggler) was made possible with support from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and Theater Star Crap Method was commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater and was made Bay Area’s CA$H grant. Additional support from CounterPulse, ODC Dance Commons, and GFTA/SF possible by the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation Hotel Tax Fund. and the Davis/Dauray Family Fund, a Gibney Dance Center boo-koo residency and residence at Spaceworks LIC. Star Crap Method is also possible by donations from the project’s 152 Kickstarter backers.
16 17 YVONNE MEIER ANTONIO RAMOS AND THE GANG BANGERS
DURCH NACHT UND NEBEL US PREMIERE MIRA EL! Monday, January 11, 7:00pm Tuesday, January 12, 5:30pm Tuesday, January 12, 7:00pm Wednesday, January 13, 8:30pm Friday, January 15, 7:00pm Thursday, January 14, 5:30pm Saturday, January 16, 7:00pm Friday, January 15, 8:30pm Run Time: 45 minutes Run Time: 45 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER ABRONS ARTS CENTER, UNDERGROUND THEATER 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org
Hair raising and naked inside and out, Durch Nacht und Nebel is a winding journey In MIRA EL! Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers present a psychological and through wondrous scenes where props interact in mysterious, elegant and fright- physiological investigation of identity, intimacy and isolation. The work delves into ening ways. Half public enemy, half baby-devouring witch, Yvonne Meier presents the masculine/feminine dichotomy to expose, examine and undermine its binary body politics in an extreme fashion and does not shy away from showing her age. construction as it simultaneously manipulates the concept and construction of the Through numerous scenes Meier transforms herself with provocative costumes. self that exists in the virtual realm. Huge paintings will be made with a giant paintbrush. #Art MIRA EL! is made possible with support from Movement Research Artist-in-Residence program and with Durch Nacht und Nebel is presented with additional support from Abrons Arts Center. additional residency support from CPR – Center for Performance Research with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
18 19 MILKA DJORDJEVICH & CHRIS PECK M. LAMAR MASS DESTRUCTION Wednesday, January 13, 5:30pm Wednesday, January 13, 5:30pm Thursday, January 14, 8:30pm Thursday, January 14, 8:30pm Friday, January 15, 10:00pm Saturday, January 16, 10:00pm Run time: 60 minutes Run Time: 70 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE ABRONS ARTS CENTER, UNDERGROUND THEATER 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org
In MASS, three female dancers execute an interdependent score of movement DESTRUCTION is a song of mourning for what Antony Paul Farley calls “the and music choreographed by Milka Djordjevich and composed by Chris Peck. motionless movement of death through slavery, segregation and neo-segrega- The women are a choir of image, action and voice. Hyper-objectified anonymous tion.” Drawing on themes of apocalypse, end times, and rapture found in forms and three-part harmonies pulse and throb through the artifice of the theater. Negro Spirituals, the work explores radical historical expressions, and invokes Performers oscillate between action and inaction, singing and dancing, chanting long-held and continued calls to end our white supremacist world order. and swaying. They act as an engine that evolves through space and generates DESTRUCTION is a futuristic salvaging of the negro spirit destroyed in the friction over time. MASS unveils the materiality of the moving and sonic female flames of the western world. body, unraveling its inherent choreographed codes. Like a prayer, it proceeds without manipulation, loving the flaw.
MASS was commissioned by The Kitchen and developed at Abrons Art Center, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Swing Space, Pieter and PACT Zollverein, Essen Germany. MASS is a sponsored project of Show Box L.A. funded in part with generous support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. MASS would not be possible without the generous support of the individual donors of our Kickstarter campaign.
20 21 ERIN MARKEY JACK FERVER
A RIDE ON THE IRISH CREAM WORLD PREMIERE MON, MA, MES (REVISITÉ) PRESENTED BY GIBNEY DANCE CENTER Wednesday, January 13, 7:00pm Thursday, January 14, 7:00pm Wednesday, January 13, 9:30pm Friday, January 15, 10:00pm Thursday, January 14, 9:30pm Saturday, January 16, 1:00pm & 10:00pm Friday, January 15, 9:30pm Sunday, January 17, 8:30pm Saturday, January 16, 9:30pm Run Time: 90 minutes Run Time: 60 minutes ABRONS ARTS CENTER, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER GIBNEY DANCE: AGNES VARIS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org 280 Broadway / tickets $15–$20 / GibneyDance.org/MakingSpace
Written and created by Erin Markey, A Ride On The Irish Cream is a musical Mon, Ma, Mes (Revisité) examines the permeability between the real and the anchored inside the memory of a Michigan backyard on the bank of the fictive, utilizing performative constructs to deconstruct where, how, and why we Kawkawlin River. A live band and original score become the space for the thrills make personas for ourselves. Originally created in 2012 for FIAF’s Crossing the and terrors of a relationship between Reagan (Markey), a vainglorious self-made Line Festival (hence “Revisité”), this stylized lecture-performance has been built girl, and Irish Cream (Becca Blackwell), her family’s pontoon boat/horse. They to grow, adapt, and change alongside Ferver’s concerns and larger creations, are in love, but when their relationship is tested by dust ruffles, sex for money, creating a humorous and disarming retrospective of his life and work. Through severe T-storms, and a secret cellar, the only way to stay together is to remember sudden shifts in style and form, blurred boundaries emerge between the realms all the parts of themselves their bodies tried to forget. of grand theatrics and stark naturalism, the persona and the self.
A Ride On The Irish Cream was created in part through generous support from NYPAC, the New York Mon, Ma, Mes was originally commissioned by the French Institute Alliance Française for the Crossing Performance Artists Collective, Abrons Arts Center and the artists-in-residence program at BAX/Brooklyn The Line Festival in 2012. Arts Exchange with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council of the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Jerome Foundation; by the Franklin Furnace Fund supported by Jerome Foundation and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Additional residency support was provided by Mount Tremper Arts and Baryshnikov Arts Center.
22 23 METTE INGVARTSEN JONATHAN CAPDEVIELLE
69 POSITIONS US PREMIERE ADISHATZ/ADIEU US PREMIERE PRESENTED BY SUNDAY SESSIONS AT MoMA PS1 CO-PRESENTED WITH PERFORMANCE SPACE 122
Friday, January 15, 3:00pm Friday, January 15, 7:00pm Saturday, January 16, 3:00pm Saturday, January 16, 8:30pm Sunday, January 17, 3:00pm Sunday, January 17, 4:00pm Run Time: 105 minutes Run Time: 60 minutes MoMA PS1, VW DOME ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE 22–25 Jackson Avenue / tickets $15 or $13 for MoMA & MoMA PS1 Members / 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org momaps1.org/sundaysessions Through formative teenage years spent listening to pop icons like Madonna 69 Positions leads visitors through a space with performances, books, films, texts and singing the greatest hits from the 1980s, Adishatz/Adieu is a self-portrait and images brought alive through movement and speech in order to experience of performer and ventriloquist Jonathan Capdevielle; a collection of songs the connection between the intimate sphere and public space. This guided tour that wander between real life and fantasy. As the work moves between music through an archive of sexual performances, serves as a filter for Mette Ingvartsen and conversation, memories of childhood are conjured up alongside a past to explore unresolved issues about sexuality in contemporary practices today. that continues to inform his shifting identity. On a journey to capture the In doing so, her body turns into a field of physical experimentation and uncanny personas of others, Capdevielle strives to discover the most truthful version sexual practices emerge in relation to the environment that surrounds her. of himself. Sung a cappella, Adishatz/Adieu aims to study of the vulnerability of adolescence. 69 Positions is a production of Mette Ingvartsen / Great Investment. Co-production provided by apap / szene (Salzburg), Musée de la Danse/Centre Chorégraphique National de Rennes et de Bretagne, Kaaitheater Adishatz/Adieu is produced by Bureau Cassiopée. Adishatz/Adieu was commissioned by Centre (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), Kunstencentrum Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon dans le cadre de domaines – FR, BUDA (Kortrijk), BIT Teatergarasjen (Bergen). Additional support provided by Théatre National de Bretagne Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort dans le cadre de l’accueil-studio – (Rennes), Festival d’Automne à Paris, DOCH – University of dance and circus (Stockholm). Funded by: The FR and BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen with the development support of Centre national de la Danse (FR). Flemish Authorities & The Danish Arts Council. This work programme has been funded with support from Additional support provided by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the European Commission. Institut Français, Barbara Watson, Henry Pillsbury and with the help of DACM and the technical staff Sunday Sessions is organized by Jenny Schlenzka, Associate Curator, with Alex Sloane, Curatorial Assistant; of Quartz, Scène Nationale de Brest. Rosey Selig-Addiss, Associate Producer and Lucy Lie, Production Assistant.
Sunday Sessions and the VW Dome at MoMA PS1 are made possible by a partnership with Volkswagen of America.
24 25 THE BUREAU FOR THE FUTURE JAMES & JEN | MCGINN & AGAIN
OF CHOREOGRAPHY OVER THE RIVER | THROUGH THE WOODS WORLD PREMIERE Saturday, January 16, 5:30pm SCORE FOR A LECTURE WORLD PREMIERE Sunday, January 17, 7:00pm Friday, January 15, 5:30pm Run Time: 55 minutes Saturday, January 16, 2:00pm ABRONS ARTS CENTER, PLAYHOUSE Sunday, January 17, 7:00pm 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org Run Time: 55 minutes Over the River | Through the Woods, the diptych debut by the family collective: ABRONS ARTS CENTER, UNDERGROUND THEATER McGinn & Again, follows the passage of a hero. Constantly shifting self and time, 466 Grand Street / tickets $20 / AbronsArtsCenter.org we embark on a journey of antiquities inspired by a cyclical history. Juxtaposed sound and image paint mosaics of humorous composition and development. In Score for a Lecture, a sequence of speech acts choreograph the theater as Sonnets, shanties, and charades are shared by allies along the way. We carve out a medium and institution that literally speaks. Instant collaboration invigorates a home… a Scottish den… for feast and frolic. institutional critique as a choreographed blooper. Score for a Lecture creates space to redefine the value of failure while we are inside the theater, the institu- Over the River | Through the Woods was funded in part by Chez Bushwick, Inc. and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation Late-Stage Production Stipend. Additional support provided by the Movement Research tion, the group, the pair and the self. In Score for a Lecture, as with all projects Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, by The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, everyone becomes an agent of and the Davis/Dauray Family Fund. Rehearsal support was also provided through a boo-koo Residency at The Bureau. Gibney Dance.
The Bureau is an apparatus that collectively builds performance experiences and documents. We strive for group decision making and explore not only group dynamics but also states of embodiment as well as myths of individual and collective authorship. We produce permeating archives of dance/performance and subsequent heterogeneous histories. The Bureau is a state of flux, shifting appearance according to thespecific context. Rather than “products,” The Bureau is forever involved in research processes and practices to investigate participatory images of performance and systems of choreography.
26 27 DISCOURSE MELANCHOLIA AND PRECARIOUS VIRTUOSITY A CHARMING UPROAR: ON DOCUMENTING DANCE JENN JOY AND KELLY KIVLAND WITH HEATHER KRAVAS JOSHUA LUBIN-LEVY AND LIGIA LEWIS WITH THOMAS J. LAX, SOYOUNG YOON & CASSIE MEY Friday, January 8, 3:30pm Sunday, January 10, 3:30pm ABRONS ARTS CENTER, ROOM 201 ABRONS ARTS CENTER, ROOM 201 466 Grand Street / Free 466 Grand Street / Free In conversation with artists Heather Kravas and Ligia Lewis, Jenn Joy and Kelly Prompted by the work of keyon gaskin, A Charming Uproar brings together the Kivland discuss choreographies of labor, feminism, melancholia and fierce virtuosity work of scholars, curators and archivists to consider the complex ways that dance moving from Samuel Beckett to a more punk Richard Serra. translates into other forms. What do we make of the way writing, recording and research on dance relates to the field of contemporary dance practice? And what HOW SHOULD THE PRESENT THINK of the ways in which dancers are made to account for themselves and their work? ABOUT THE FUTURE? I AM BLACK CLAUDIA LA ROCCO AND LANE CZAPLINSKI (YOU HAVE TO BE WILLING TO NOT KNOW) WITH ANNIE DORSEN, YELENA GLUZMAN, THOMAS F. DEFRANTZ Sunday, January 17, 11:00am ABRONS ARTS CENTER, ROOM 201 KATHERINE PROFETA & OTHERS 466 Grand Street / Free Saturday, January 9, 12:00pm The discourse of race in contemporary performance falls apart when whites try ABRONS ARTS CENTER, ROOM 201 to understand black performance. Contemporary black performance is saturated 466 Grand Street / Free with experience and complexities that evade easy affiliations or ‘knowings.’ This dialogic manifesto-lecture offers strategies for acknowledging how artists of color Claudia La Rocco and Lane Czaplinski present a conversation concerning and their collaborating audiences of color operate in several keys simultaneously, documentation and archival strategies - how contemporary work is (and isn’t) but are inevitably compelled to reduce our work and experience to the unknow- being contextualized across a range of platforms and media. able, shameful category of ‘race.’
30 31 READING A MOVEMENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP WITH A PLATFORM FOR CRITICAL WRITING CLAUDIA LA ROCCO AmericanRealness.com/reading CREATIVE DIFFERENCES READING started as a zine in 2013 and became a blog in 2014. The project continues in 2016 with a series of commissioned essays. All writings will be Thursday, January 7, 3:00pm – 6:00pm posted to AmericanRealness.com/reading. Be sure to check out the blog leading Sunday, January 10, 10:00am – 1:00pm up to and throughout the festival for critical and contextual writings reflecting Tuesday, January 12, 3:00pm – 6:00pm on festival artists, performances and the local, national and international dance and contemporary performance scene. ABRONS ARTS CENTER, Room 307 (Thursday & Sunday), Room 302 (Tuesday) 466 Grand Street / workshop $90 / MovementResearch.org
“Criticism is art. It’s unruly – but also tethered to the art of others, and to whatever culture(s) it seeks to interrogate. These are my beliefs, anyway. What are yours?” Claudia La Rocco This workshop functions like a laboratory, open to individuals interested in under- standing themselves and their world through art. Participants will have access to discounted tickets to festival performances.
32 33 2PARTY MEMBERS CLOSING NIGHT OF THE HOUSE SOIREE CHAMPAGNE TOAST HOSTED BY KICKSTARTER
THURSDAY JANUARY 7, 6:00PM – 7:00PM SUNDAY JANUARY 17, 10:00PM – 12:00AM ABRONS ARTS CENTER / CULPEPER GALLERY BEVERLY’S 466 GRAND STREET 21 ESSEX STREET
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glistening in a sea of code we see our reflections THE CULTURE WHORE refracted endlessly in the STREAM documenting potentials shares ARCHIVING realities as we fragment bodies, remember shift, CONTROL click, drag DOWNLOAD troll, dump LOG in, go LIVE SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 11:00PM –7:00AM DOWNLOAD
BROOKLYN SECRET WAREHOUSE $10 limited advance / $15 advance / $20 door A p.ARTY for/ AMERICAN REALNESS____ The Culture Whore’s DOWNLOAD is a journey through cyberspace, reflecting on how technology has empowered underground communities, marking _MUSIC _HOSTS this moment in time as a screenshot of love, and archiving creations for future generations. david sokolowki akira A matrix of musical wizards will keep the beat as we scroll through electronic jx cannon banjee report sounds of techno, house, club & disco with DJs Katie Rex, Sadaf, David Sokolowski and JX Cannon. Live performances will celebrate the eclectic katie rex cupcake virtuosity of Brooklyn’s underground queer art scene with genderbending sadaf doug keeler dance by Davon Rainey, sexy post-Internet industrial sounds by Zebulon Gone, outrageous punk drag from Chris of Hur and and triumphant neo soul from julia sinelnikova Destiny, formerly Princess Nokia. _LIVE lindsay leonard Explore the transgressive value of digital reality as The Culture Whore co-opts chris of hur maria jose aesthetics of surveillance in service of narcissistic pleasure. Live feed video installations will act as portals to into the future as they capture the crowd in davon rainey mateus porto real time, projecting bodies into psychedelic screens in an endless loop, inspiring destiny molly rhinestones the revelers to keep dancing until dawn. zebulon gone The Culture Whore is a community of artists exploring queerness in all its momo shade forms by creating ephemeral spaces and permanent platforms that cultivate rena connectivity, inclusivity, free expression, and pleasure. rony corcos slater g. string suzie hart sparklez
40 41 2CALENDAR THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2016 3:00 PM 307 Claudia La Rocco, CREATIVE DIFFERENCES, Session 1 10:00 AM 307 Claudia La Rocco, CREATIVE DIFFERENCES, Session 2 6:00 PM CUL Members of the House Champagne Toast 2:00 PM ST1 Heather Kravas, dead, disappears 7:00 PM GAL Jennifer Lacey / Antonija Livingstone / Dominique Pétrin / 3:30 PM 201 Joshua Lubin-Levy with Thomas J. Lax, Soyoung Yoon & Stephen Thompson, Culture Administration & Trembling Cassie Mey, 8:00 PM GAL Jennifer Lacey / Antonija Livingstone / Dominique Pétrin / A Charming Uproar: On Documenting Dance Stephen Thompson, Culture Administration & Trembling 5:30 PM EXP Jillian Peña, Panopticon 8:30 PM ST1 Heather Kravas, dead, disappears 5:30 PM UDG Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, #negrophobia 10:00 PM PLY Ligia Lewis, Sorrow Swag 7:00 PM PLY Ligia Lewis, Sorrow Swag 8:30 PM EXP Larissa Velez-Jackson, Star Crap Method FRIDAY JANUARY 8, 2016 8:30 PM UDG Fernando Belfiore,AL13FB<3 3:30 PM 201 Jenn Joy and Kelly Kivland with Heather Kravas and Ligia Lewis, 8:30 PM ST1 Heather Kravas, dead, disappears Melancholia and Precarious Virtuosity 10:00 PM PLY Keith Hennessy & Jassem Hindi, future friend/ships 5:30 PM UDG Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, #negrophobia
5:30 PM GAL Jennifer Lacey / Antonija Livingstone / Dominique Pétrin / MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2016 Stephen Thompson, Culture Administration & Trembling 5:30 PM UDG Fernando Belfiore,AL13FB<3 6:30 PM GAL Jennifer Lacey / Antonija Livingstone / Dominique Pétrin / Stephen Thompson, Culture Administration & Trembling 7:00 PM PLY Sara Shelton Mann, Keith Hennessy & Norman Rutherford, Sara (the smuggler) 7:00 PM PLY keyon gaskin, its not a thing 7:00 PM EXP Yvonne Meier, Durch Nacht und Nebel 8:30 PM ST1 Heather Kravas, dead, disappears 8:30 PM UDG Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, #negrophobia 10:00 PM PLY Ligia Lewis, Sorrow Swag 8:30 PM ST1 Heather Kravas, dead, disappears
10:00 PM PLY keyon gaskin, its not a thing SATURDAY JANUARY 9, 2016 10:00 PM EXP Jillian Peña, Panopticon 12:00 PM 201 Claudia La Rocco and Lane Czaplinski with Annie Dorsen, Yelena Gluzman, Katherine Profeta & others, How Should the Present Think About the Future? TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016 2:30 PM UDG Fernando Belfiore,AL13FB<3 3:00 PM 302 Claudia La Rocco, CREATIVE DIFFERENCES, Session 3 4:00 PM EXP Jillian Peña, Panopticon 5:30 PM UDG Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, MIRA EL! 5:30 PM ST1 Heather Kravas, dead, disappears 7:00 PM PLY Sara Shelton Mann, Keith Hennessy & Norman Rutherford, 7:00 PM PLY Keith Hennessy & Jassem Hindi, future friend/ships Sara (the smuggler) 8:30 PM EXP Larissa Velez-Jackson, Star Crap Method 7:00 PM EXP Yvonne Meier, Durch Nacht und Nebel 8:30 PM UDG Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, #negrophobia 8:30 PM UDG Fernando Belfiore,AL13FB<3 8:30 PM ST1 Heather Kravas, dead, disappears 10:00 PM EXP Jillian Peña, Panopticon 10:00 PM PLY keyon gaskin, its not a thing 10:00 PM PLY Keith Hennessy & Jassem Hindi, future friend/ships 11:00 PM TBA The Culture Whore shares DOWNLOAD
44 45 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2016 SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2016 5:30 PM PLY Milka Djordjevich & Chris Peck, MASS 1:00 PM EXP Erin Markey, A Ride On The Irish Cream 5:30 PM UDG M. Lamar, DESTRUCTION 2:00 PM UDG The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, 7:00 PM EXP Erin Markey, A Ride On The Irish Cream Score for a Lecture 8:30 PM PLY Sara Shelton Mann, Keith Hennessy & Norman Rutherford, 3:00 PM PS1 Mette Ingvartsen, 69 Positions Sara (the smuggler) 4:00 PM EXP Jillian Peña, Panopticon 8:30 PM UDG Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, MIRA EL! 5:30 PM PLY James & Jen | McGinn & Again, 9:30 PM GIB Jack Ferver, Mon, Ma, Mes (Revisité) Over the River | Through the Woods 10:00 PM EXP Larissa Velez-Jackson, Star Crap Method 7:00 PM EXP Yvonne Meier, Durch Nacht und Nebel 8:30 PM PLY Jonathan Capdevielle, Adishatz/Adieu
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016 9:30 PM GIB Jack Ferver, Mon, Ma, Mes (Revisité) 5:30 PM UDG Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, MIRA EL! 10:00 PM UDG M. Lamar, DESTRUCTION 7:00 PM EXP Erin Markey, A Ride On The Irish Cream 10:00 PM EXP Erin Markey, A Ride On The Irish Cream 8:30 PM PLY Milka Djordjevich & Chris Peck, MASS 8:30 PM UDG M. Lamar, DESTRUCTION SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 2016 9:00 PM GIB Jack Ferver, Mon, Ma, Mes (Revisité) 11:00 AM 201 Thomas F. DeFrantz, i am black (you have to be willing to not know) 10:00 PM EXP Larissa Velez-Jackson, Star Crap Method 1:00 PM UDG Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, #negrophobia 2:30 PM EXP Jillian Peña, Panopticon FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2016 3:00 PM PS1 Mette Ingvartsen, 69 Positions 3:00 PM PS1 Mette Ingvartsen, 69 Positions 4:00 PM PLY Jonathan Capdevielle, Adishatz/Adieu 4:00 PM EXP Larissa Velez-Jackson, Star Crap Method 5:30 PM EXP Larissa Velez-Jackson, Star Crap Method 5:30 PM UDG The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, Score for a Lecture 7:00 PM PLY James & Jen | McGinn & Again, 7:00 PM PLY Jonathan Capdevielle, Adishatz/Adieu Over the River | Through the Woods 7:00 PM EXP Yvonne Meier, Durch Nacht und Nebel 7:00 PM UDG The Bureau for the Future of Choreography, 8:30 PM UDG Antonio Ramos and the Gang Bangers, MIRA EL! Score for a Lecture 9:30 PM GIB Jack Ferver, Mon, Ma, Mes (Revisité) 8:30 PM EXP Erin Markey, A Ride On The Irish Cream 10:00 PM PLY Milka Djordjevich & Chris Peck, MASS 10:00 PM BEV Closing Night Soirée Hosted by Kickstarter
10:00 PM EXP Erin Markey, A Ride On The Irish Cream
LEGEND 201 Abrons Arts Center Room 201 302 Abrons Arts Center Room 302 307 Abrons Arts Center Room 307 CUL Abrons Arts Center Culpeper Gallery GAL Abrons Arts Center Main Gallery EXP Abrons Arts Center Experimental Theater UDG Abrons Arts Center Underground Theater PLY Abrons Arts Center Playhouse ST1 Abrons Arts Center Studio 1 GIB Gibney Dance Center at 280 Broadway PS1 MoMA PS1, VW Dome TBA Brooklyn Location To Be Announced BEV Beverly’s, 21 Essex Street
46 47 AMERICAN REALNESS FOUNDING MOTHERS OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS Created by Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor (tbspMGMT) in partnership with the Abrons Arts Center, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Lambent Foundation, The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Abrons Arts Center in January 2010, American Realness is a festival of dance and contemporary performance. An internationally recognized platform for the LEGENDARY MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS discovery of new works from subversive artists, tearing at the boundaries of their Vallejo Gantner, Campbell Thibo
forms, American Realness commands attention for the proliferation of choreo- GRAND’MA MOTHER OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS graphic and performative practices transcending the traditions and rewriting the Samuel Miller, Rio Rutzinger definitions of American dance and performance. In2014 the festival expanded HEALING MOTHER OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS its scope to include the work of international artists, engaging in a global dialogue Michelle Ellsworth, Jay Laubscher, Lisa, Marilyn McCall on the practice and presentation of contemporary dance and performance. NON-BINARY GENDER FLUID LOVER OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS TEAM Kyle Abraham, John Andress, Ron Berry, Suzanne Bocanegra, Jim Bott, David Clark, Chris Cochrane, Jennifer Wright Cook, Angelo DeSanto, Michael DiPietro, Robert Flynt, Eric Geiger, Neil Greenberg, Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor, Founder, Curator, & Producer Miguel Gutierrez, Caleb Hammons, Maria Hassabi, Juliana, Ellina Kevorkian, ArKtype/Thomas O. Will Cotton, Production Manager Kriegsmann, Gideon Lester, William Lynch, Laura McDermott, Mathew Pokoik, Shannon Pryor, Shanna Polzin, Assistant Production Manager Alexandra Rosenberg, Ellen Schneiderman, Todd Shalom, Margaret Sheriff, Martha Sherman, Lauren Slone, Frank Smigiel, Anna Stothart, Ivan Sygoda, Festival TransAmériques, Adrienne Willis Bek Berger, Associate Producer Hanna Parry, Artist Services GENDER NEUTRAL PRONOUN OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS Erik Rogers, External Relations Robert Avila, Elizabeth R, Bluestone Basecamp, David Bernstein, Alison Bory, Nicholas Croft, Patrick de Rham, Lenore Doxsee, Ewender, Jack Ferver, Jacob Gallagher-Ross, Lindsay Gilmour, Matthieu Goeury, Debbie Huang, Ticket Services Sondra Graff, Amanda Hamp, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Judy Hussie-Taylor, Mark Jeffery, Susan LaRosa, Marin Sander-Holzman / Marin Media Lab, Festival Media Producer Neal Medlyn, Roarke Menzies, Tere O’Connor, Olga Zitluhina / Baiba Ozolina, Jennifer Palgon, Ryan Anthony Scudese, Motion Graphics / Media Associate Quinlan, Paul Russ, Liz Santoro, Kerry Scheidt, Michael Sheriff, Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Renee Wadleigh, Holcombe Waller, Gwen Welliver, Mohammad Yousuf, Lucien Zayan Ian Douglas, Festival Photographer Aislinn Curry, Experimental Production Stage Manager SISTER OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS Jessica Creager, Experimental Lighting Supervisor Aliza Arenson, Michelle Boulé, Michael Breslin, Jack Bump, Rachel Calter, Peggy Cheng, Dana, Fivel, Alley Frey, John Hoobyar, Juliana, Maedhbh Fiona Mc Cullagh, Eric McNatt, Annie Parson, Andrew Modansky, Experimental Sound Supervisor Carla Peterson, Melinda Ring, Risa, Matthew Rodrigues, Sara, Nowantto Shareit, Eric Shethar, Shayna O’Niell, Playhouse Production Stage Manager Steven Skerritt-Davis, Noémie Solomon, tinyscissors, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Miranda Wright, Leslie Smith, Playhouse Lighting Supervisor Jaime Wright
Joseph Wolfslau, Playhouse Sound Supervisor CHILD OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS Carolyn Quinn, Underground Production Stage Manager Julie Alexander, Bay Pointe Ballet, Julian Barnett, Bek Berger, Karen Bernard, Sarah Bishop-Stone, Serena Wong, Underground Lighting Supervisor Dara Blumenthal, Bruce, Bridin Clements, Sarah Curran, Yehuda Duenyas, Jordan Fein, Jaime Fennelly, Luke George, Beth Graczyk, Brandon Gross, Stacy Grossfield, Abi S, Andrea Haenggi, Mary Ivanoski, Heather Motz, Underground Sound Supervisor John Jahnke, Kyli Kleven, Andy Kuncl, Aaron Landsman, Elena Light, mickey mahar, Hyatt Mannix, Geoffrey Ballinger, Antony Shipman, Meghan Herzfeld; Administrative Interns Jaime Maseda, Jessica Massart, Yvonne Meier, Jes Nelson, Mina Nishimura, Paige, Francesco Pasquero, Terrence Dowdye, Maia Van de Mark, Kirsten Harvey, Sabrina Shen, Kristopher Pourzal, Jennifer Rajotte, Naomi Elena Ramirez, Sally Rhoades, Natalie Robin, Erik Rogers, Hahn Rowe, John Scott, Scott, Alexander Thompson, Adrienne Truscott, Rebecca Wender, PADL West Shakinah Starks, Mollie Suss; Production Interns TODDLER OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS tbspMGMT Anna Kroll, Laura Arrington, Marc Arthur, Adam Baran, Lydia Bell, Rachel Berman, Ellen Chenoweth, is an experiment in new models of management, curation, and presentation for Francis Christeller, Diana Crum, Tess Dworman, Ben Gansky, Jesse Hewit, Cynthia Koppe, Doug LeCours, Victoria Lynford, Tyler Oyer, Rebecca Poulson, Kathe Robin, Laura Scatena Romero, Sarah A.O. Rosner, new dance and contemporary performance. tbspMGMT builds support to produce Marci Skolnick, RoseAnne Spradlin, Kathleen Telfer, Tatyana Tenenbaum, James Turnbull, Chris Tyler, and diffuse artists’ projects through a network of national and international Karina Vahitova, Emily Wexler, Taja Will residency centers, contemporary art centers, festivals, universities, foundations, BABY OF THE HOUSE OF REALNESS and municipalities. Through the maintenance of ongoing dialogues between John Dimatos, Ben Linsay, Dorina M Morcan, Ken K.J Onoda-Song, Annie Tippe, Eric Damon Walters artists and institutions, tbspMGMT works to identify and strengthen these networks through partnerships around new research and artistic production. as of 12.27.2015
FUNDING American Realness is made possible in part with support from the Abrons SPECIAL THANKS TO Jay Wegman, Maedhbh Mc Cullagh, Jon Harper, Jonathan Durham, Carolyn Arts Center, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Lambent Foundation, Sickles, Louise Barry, Arpan Biswas, Ellen Schneiderman, Jeremy Reiss, Natalie the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, rpm:projects, and one hundred eighty nine Robin, Caleb Hammons, Eric Shethar, Line Spellenberg, Moriah Evans, Miguel Kickstarter backers. Gutierrez, Marin Sander-Holzman, Alexandra Rosenberg and Vallejo Gantner
48 49 ABRONS ARTS CENTER The Abrons Arts Center is the OBIE Award winning performing and visual arts program of Henry Street Settlement. The Abrons supports the presentation of innovative, multi-disciplinary work; cultivates artists in all stages of their practice through educational programs, commissions, and residencies; and serves as an intersection of cultural engagement for local, national, and international audiences and arts-workers.
Each year the Abrons offers over 250 performances, 12 gallery exhibitions, 20 residencies for performing and studio artists, and 100 different classes in dance, music, theater, and visual art. The Abrons also provides New York City public schools with teaching artists, introducing more than 3,000 students to the arts.
Henry Street Settlement, founded in 1893, serves 60,000 New Yorkers each year with social service, arts and health care programs from 17 program sites on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Jay Wegman, Director Kim Cox, Registrar Jonathan Durham, Director of Exhibitions and AIRspace Chantara Ellis, Visual Arts Manager Jon Harper, Technical Director Carl Johnson, House Manager Millie Kapp, Engagement Manager for Performance Maedhbh Mc Cullagh, Managing Director Rose Marie Ortiz, Operations Manager 2016 REALNESS AMERICAN Mekala Pavlin, Administrative Assistant David Savoy, Audience Services Benjamin Schrier, Engagement Manager for Music Carolyn Sickles, Director of Engagement Emma Zurer, Engagement Coordinator Julia Pagan, Michelle Diaz, Ariela Richards, Front Desk Reception
FUNDING Abrons Arts Center programs are made possible through the kind support of these good people: Louis and Ann Abrons Foundation, Inc., The ASCAP Foundation, Irving Caesar Fund, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Tita Cahn Trust, The Daniel J. & Edith A. Ehrlich Family Foundation, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Emily Davie and Joseph S. Kornfeld Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Patagonia Foundation, The Peg Santvoord Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Bulova Steston Fund, The Thanksgiving Fund, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Barker Welfare Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City Department of Education, and many generous individuals.
PHOTOS Cover: Dieter Hartwig. Inside: Stephen Thompson, Jason Starkie, Dieter Hartwig, Scott Shaw, Robert Duncan Gray, Giannina Urmeneta Ottiker, Maria Baranova, Anja Beutler, Brian Rogers, Robbie Sweeny, Eric McNatt, Ian Douglas, Lisa Wahlander, Serena Jara, Allison Michael Orenstein and Signe Mae Olson, Ian Douglas, Fernanda Tafner, Alain Monnot, Evelyn Donnelly, Ian Douglas, Jose Carlos Teixeira, Tinker Coalescing
DESIGN Sondra Graff/rpm:projects
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