“gymnastic feats in the context of accessible theatrical entertainment with charming costuming, lights and sound design…What sets Artichoke apart is its ability to convey character, emotions, and relationships through - not merely despite - all the circus tricks.”
The Village Voice
Look At Me (when i talk to you)
Commuter Connection:
A Rush-Hour Romance
Web
Origins
REPERTORY PROGRAM
6 dancers, 90 minutes, one intermission
Origins
Precarious balances and daring lifts spring from this otherworldly circus-like work. “Origins opens engagingly with a clump of dancers moving in slow motions through an awesome series of precarious, acrobatic balancing maneuvers.” (Backstage)
Performers: 6
Length: 30 minutes
Music: Sam Popat
Costumes: Yuki Okuyama
Premiere 2004 at American Theater of Actors, New York, NY
Commuter Connection: A Rush-Hour Romance
This comedic dance depicts a young woman who, amidst quandaries and mishaps, finds the love of her life during the morning commute. At each performance community members appear as guest performers in the work.
Performers: 3 plus 5-10 community members
Length: 6 minutes
Music: Tchaikovsky
Premiere 2003 at Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Web
A highly physical duet intricately woven with risky partnering, syncopated rhythms and precise timing. “It’s magic on the audience was you were afraid to look and afraid to look away!” (Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine)
Performers: 2
Length: 9 minutes
Music: Glen Velez
Costumes: Agata Olek
Premiere 2002 at The Epic Center, Kalamazoo, MI
Stall
Dancers fly, float and forge through a dreamlike landscape.
Performers: 4
Length: 20 minutes
Music: Bradford Reed
Premiere 2000 at The Joyce SoHo, New York, NY
WORKS FOR THE STAGE
WORKS FOR NON-TRADITIONAL/SITE-SPECIFIC SETTINGS
IN THE ROUND or IN THE CROWD
I AM NOTHING (without you)
Merging everyday experiences with stylized performance, audience with performers, this work has been performed formally in the round for 20-50 observers or been installed into a roaming crowd. Intimacy is explored, boundaries are pushed and a community is created. A hand is offered, or perhaps a knee or neck. Do you take it? Do you hold on, feeling the pull of the other person, or let go sending them tumbling into space? Multiple events erupt simultaneously; the person next to you whispers in your ear. What do you focus on? Do you respond?
Performers: 1-10
Length: 20-60 minutes
Sound Score: Bob Lukomski
Premiere 2006 at CRS/Dharma Road Productions, New York, NY
MULTI-SITE TOUR PROJECT
U R Here
The audience is provided with iPods, or can download the music to their own listening devices, and invited to tour 6 different locations. The audience may be in an enclosed space with a dancer a few inches away or they may be outside viewing through a picture window. Ranging from intimate and interactive to voyeuristic, U R Here plays with perspective, proximity and choice making, with each audience member deciding what to see, when and for how long, and what to listen to from 12 tracks of music.
Performers: 10
Length: 60-90 minutes
Premieres June 2008 in Brooklyn, NY
I Am Nothing (without you)
U R Here
REPERTORY AVAILABLE FOR TOURING
THE DUET SHOW!
2 dancers, 90 minutes, one intermission
Vic and Dee: Through the Years
An ironic multi-media work about the triumphs and tribulations of female friendship and the joys and perils of growing up in the 80’s.
Length: 40 minutes
Premiere 2007 at Dixon Place, New York, NY
Web
A highly physical duet intricately woven with risky partnering, syncopated rhythms and precise timing. “It’s magic on the audience was you were afraid to look and afraid to look away!” (Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine)
Length: 9 minutes
Music: Glen Velez
Costumes: Agata Olek
Premiere 2002 at The Epic Center, Kalamazoo, MI
Look At Me (when i talk to you)
Filled with tension and passion, this rousing work exposes poignant moments in relationships that necessitate action or change. Tenderness butts up against fierce combat in this intensely physical duet.
Length: 18 minutes
Music: Bob Lukomski
Premiere 2005 at The Joyce SoHo, New York, NY
Vic and Dee: Through the Years
FOR INTIMATE THEATERS, GALLERY SPACES, OR...
if you see something...
If you see something, say something, is a slogan adopted by the New York City transit system in March 2003, reminding transit riders through signs and repeated announcements of their merely relative safety. Five years later, this tagline still runs strong, but what has it accomplished? A sense of responsibility and community? Of has it perpetuated fear and insecurity? In this stark work, the audience is first greeted by a blank white slate, nothingness. They are walled off from the performers, who destroy this barricade, their instincts and humanity.
Performers: 4
Length: 55 minutes
Premiere 2008 at Dixon Place, New York, NY
Listen to an interview with Director, Lynn Neuman, by Eva Yaa Asantewaa.
Read a review of the premiere of this work.
This Dixon Place Mondo Cane! Commission was made possible, in part, with generous support from The Peg Santwoord Foundation, Jerome Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
if you see something...
