APRIL 13 - 18 | 2010 | 10 EVENTS

Featuring experimental dance, music, video and multi-disciplined works from all over the US, Canada and abroad.

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Performance Mix at Joyce SoHo

155 Mercer Street (bet. Houston and Prince) NYC
*Tickets: General $15 ; Seniors/Students $10 ; Festival Pass $30
Tickets available by February 1 at www.joyce.org

(Performance Mix Lead Artists’ discount $5 available same evening as performance - one ticket per evening)

April 13 / Tuesday / 8:00 pm

GAG (Montreal)
Ginette Laurin (Montreal)
La Zampa (France)
Malcolm J. Low (New York City)
Michelle Mola/The Troupe (New York City)

April 14 / Wednesday / 8:00 pm

La Zampa (France)
Near East Family (New York City)
Zornitsa Stoyanova and Toshi Makihara (Philadelphia)
TAIAT Dansa (Spain)
Miriam Wolf (New York City)

April 15 / Thursday / 8:00 pm

Alexadra Beller Dances (New York City)
Tif Bullard (Chicago)
dubD Productions (Vancouver)
GAG (Montreal)
Yozmit (New York City)

April 16 / Friday / 8:00 pm

Michael Freeman (New York City)
Guillermo Ortega Tanus (New York City)
Rachel Schroeder (New York City)
Yozmit (New York City)

April 17 / Saturday / 7:00 pm / (FREE)*
Unseen Dance
RSVP info@newdancealliance.org Dana Salisbury (New York City)

April 17 / Saturday / 8:00 pm
Exchange/Échange

Regina Rocke & Rosita Laval, hosts (NYC/Montreal)
Mana Kawamura (New York City)
No Work Productions (Montreal)
Cori Olinghouse (New York City)
Z THE ADDED VALUE (Montreal)

April 18 / Sunday / 3:00 pm

Ashley Anderson (Utah)
Brynne Billingsley (New York City)
MOVE: the company (Vancouver)
Jody Sperling/ Time Lapse Dance (New York City)
Kristi Spessard Dance Projects (New York City)

April 18 / Sunday / 7:00 pm (tickets $75 includes closing party)*

dubD Productions (Vancouver)
Nora Gibson Performance Project (Philadelphia)
MOVE: the company (Vancouver)
Susan Oetgen (New York)
TAIAT Dansa (Spain)

8:30 pm - 10:30 pm
DJ DANCE PARTY / TAPAS & VINO / SILENT AUCTION

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APRIL 14 / Wednesday / 10:30 am - 1 pm (FREE)
BREAKFAST MIX

Dixon Place

161 Chyrstie Street
RSVP info@newdancealliance.org
Breakfast followed by film screening of la chambre blanche by Ginette Laurin of O Vertigo (Montreal) with panel discussion on “Dance and the Camera’ led by Diedre Towers, Artistic Director of Dance Films Association. The Breakfast Mix is hosted by Cultural Services of the Quebec Government in New York.

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With three days to go, I am driven to make connections between the edited video of relics and nature, soundtracks and movement images.

I seem to be obsessed with my shadow – as it crosses over into different realms of time and space. The piece is a movie within a movie – the soundtracks of pop tunes from David Bowie to Boney M are creating a kind of musical about masking mortality – which I didn’t anticipate.

The images in the new video footage come from a museum underneath the San Lorenzo church in Genoa. Genoa is 30 minutes by bus or train from Bogliasco.

Meet Fellows….

Left to right.. Grigory Kruzhkov, Jo Anna Isaak (husband, Daniel O’Connell), Loren Ghiglione (wife, Nancy Ghiglione)

Grigory Kruzhkov, Literature – Scholarship, Moscow (Russia)

Grigory is a professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities. He has been preparing a comprehensive one-volume edition of Edward Lear (1812-1888) in Russian, representing all kinds of his writings: nonsense rhymes and songs, nonsense tales, alphabets, cookery, botany and more.

Jo Anna Isaak, Visual Arts – Scholarship, New York, New York (USA)

Jo Ann Isaak is a John Marion Chair at Fordham University. She is working on a book on art and ecology entitled “The Greening of the Avant-garde.” What she will examine is the repeated realization on the part of individual artists and groups of artists of what is at stake for artists today in the radical avant-garde gestures of modernism and the implications of the modernist tradition on contemporary ecological art practices.

Loren Ghiglione, History, Evanston, Illinois (USA)

Loren Ghiglione is a Richard A. Schwarzlose Professor of Media Ethics at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. His project “Searching for America” is a personal history book about identity in America. He has used his time at the Study Center to complete research on the first Ghigliones in America, who arrived from Liguria in the 1870’s.

Meet our fearless leader

Alessandra Natale, Associate Director of the Bogliasco Foundation.

Photo gallery of a foodie’s expedition in Genoa.

This is my last Bogliasco blog – It has been an honor to be part of this illustrious group of Fellows and to experience such a beautiful and safe haven in which to be creative. Many thanks to the Bogliasco Foundation, the Liguria Study Center and the wonderful staff that made me feel at home.

Ciao, Karen

I am excited today, because I have an idea for a new section for Ouette – I call it Glisten. My pieces often start from a reflection of where I am at emotionally and fueled by music. But here I have found that video imagery is a departure point for me to explore increasing thoughts about mortality and the richness of life. I have begun with two images – sparkles on the sea.  Zooming into the sparkles I found that they had a shape and brownish blue color with a bright cross at the center. The second images are photographs and videography of golden jeweled relics that also give off sparkles and unusual shadows. I wish I could capture the smell of the relics. Hmmmm… not getting religion…. but there is something about making a connection between nature and artifacts. Adding to the mix, I have thought of interviewing people about their thoughts on their own mortality and kicking up my heels to David Bowie’s Dead Man Walking…. So we will see where this goes……..

A trip along the sea going south by train to Portofino, then boat to San Fruttuosa to see the abbey and back via Camogli, proved to be a magnificent site. Rugged hills spotted with warm color homes, palaces and churches jutted up from the still aqua water.

Fellow William Wall, professional writer, and his wife Elizabeth Kirwan, mathematician

William “Bill” Wall is from Carrigrohane, Cork (Ireland). He is currently working on a novel partly set in Italy – and he also plans to finish a collection of poetry. Bill is very opinionated and likes to play the devils advocate. But, he gets away with it, as his smile can light up a room.

Fellow Stefania Beretta, Photographer

Stefania Beretta is from Verscio, Switzerland. She is working on a project entitled Verifica di un’esistenza. Our group will have the pleasure of attending the opening of her show “Holy Places” at Galleria UnimediaModern Contemporary Art in Genoa on November 6th. The show continues until December 10th. As she mostly speaks Italian, I nod my head and pretend I understand, while being drawn into the expressiveness of her face.

Desert of the week – panna cotta with raspberry sauce.

Sad, but true – next Friday will be my last entry.

It has been a wonderful week working in my studio. I continue to edit my video, which creates ambiance and places where the live performance of moving tableaus live. I have incorporated images and sound tracks from the movie “Where Danger Lives” starring Robert Mitchum, as well as, re-editing an episode of exposing flesh via the repetitive action of taking off a shirt. A close-up of skin heightened by a detailed effect is far from the airbrushed skin of a young model. Out of context the last image could be an abstract painting. I am now working on matching the timing of the movement to the video. Now that the video component of “Ouette” has grown from 20 to 30 minutes, I will push myself to dig deeper into the physicality.

The highlight of the week was traveling to the old section of Genoa, which is a 30 minutes bus ride from Bogliasco. The Liguria Study Center arranged a guide to take us to unusual places including a 6th century crypt, believed to be the oldest structure in Genoa; the carruggie, narrow alleys that would lead to medieval mansions and palaces covered in frescoes; and gastronomic shops. We stopped at a café where I had hot chocolate with whip cream, which tasted like liquid homemade chocolate pudding. Our guide surprised us at the end of our tour with a visit to an art deco barber shop.

Meet Bogliasco Fellow, Edmund White, photographer Frank Mullaney.

Edmund White, writer and professor of Creative Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University lives in New York City. He has been touted as “one of the few literary giants of the gay world.” It is fascinating to listen to his stories about his time living in France, his lovers, as well as the writers, movie stars and riche that he has rubbed elbows with. Stacey D’erasmo, of The New York Times, said of his recent memoir, “City Boy” — “The New York that he left in 1982 was about to become a graveyard. “City Boy,” plain-spoken and knowing, is a survivor’s tale, a missive from one of those antlered boys of that era to the others who are gone: this is who we were, this is how it was, this was our city. Some stories don’t need to be embellished to glow.”

And so following a week of linguine with lobster sauce, risotto with lingostino, pheasant, veal chops, spinach with Liguria olive oil, persimmons, grapes that taste like flowers, a layer cake filled with chocolate mousse along side crème anglaise, a pot of white mousse with a top layer of chocolate, I roll into bed and say…

Ciao till next Friday

Here is a view of the sunrise from my room.  Yes, friends and neighbors, Bogliasco is the creme de la creme of residencies.  I wake up in the morning to breakfast while my room is cleaned and bed made.  Truly heaven.  Then up up up a path to my studio.  The studio is small — but has a dance floor and is perfect for me.  So far I have been busy re-editing the video of Ouette - new footage from 40’s noir movies and creepy shutters and shades in the studio .  Suspense only needs a good sound track.

After a morning work I look forward to a lunch of – a pasta, fresh fresh cheese, salad or other delectable vegetable and fruit.   Wine and espresso is abundant…..

More work or a side trip along the path that follows the sea.

My husband, Scott, has joined me for a week.  While I work — he paints.  Bogliasco has given him his own private work room and veranda looking out at — you guessed it — the sea – The light during the day glistens and his paintings are delightfully quirky and colorful.

We stay at Villa Orbiana, which we share with another couple — Nicholas Bartlett and Bogliasco Fellow, Dorota Mitcyh.   Bogliasco is one of the few residencies that allows partners to join the Fellows.

Dorota is a visual artist.  She explores and creates new work by incorporating drawings and video as a continuation of a starting process.  Using an array of ephemeral materials, she explores the possibilities of working on a figuration that evolves into abstraction and becomes another figuration.  By changing the formal aspects of an image, a different image as well as meaning appears.  She will film the process to make a series of videos where in effect the viewer becomes the witness of that change.

Dorota is from Poland but has dual citizenship in Australia.  She has been to many residencies over the last three years including MacDowell.  She met Nick at a residency in Nebraska.  Nick does sculpture.  Following Bogliasco they will be at Roswell Artist-In-Residence in New Mexico for one year.

The days finish with a formal dress-up dinner.  Amazing food.  Mussels, pesto, tortellini with a grated walnut cream sauce, tiramisu, squid in light red sauce with hand picked mushrooms and potato slices, red and yellow roasted peppers with anchovies, stewed rabbit, cold veal with a tuna mayonnaise sauce — I could go on and on — oh yes — that lovely light yellow cake with pears….

Stay tuned in …  till next Friday…   Ciao.  Karen

July 31, 2009 by lisapaul1000

“Every archetype has its seasons. They come and go according to the deepest, often unconscious, needs of the psyche both personal and collective. Today the Black Madonna is returning.”

Matthew Fox, Return of the Black Madonna, ©2006

Review of “Subject: Part One” by Megan Bridge and Peter Prince

July 21, 2009 on cdtooth.wordpress.com

“I intend, on (in?) this blogspace, to occasionally revisit my once-worn/worn-out hat of dance critic. So. I watched a solo longer than a year ago, part of Karen Bernard’s New Dance Alliance Performance Mix Festival 2008, that was one of the “best” things I’d seen in a long time.” > READ MORE

On the eve of International Women’s Day I just happened to be reading an excerpt from Judith Butler’s book Bodies that Matter (1993) in an anthology called Beyond the Body Proper:  Reading the Anthropology of Material Life.  In her feminist philosophical inquiry, Dr. Butler questioned the “material irreducibility of sex” that she saw in much of feminist critical practice, and proposed that questioning our construction of how the female sex is constructed, and, indeed, how all matter is defined, was a vital part of the “democratizing potential” of feminism.  She takes apart our definitions of  “matter” and then reconfigures them into a new view of the concepts of materiality.  About the time I reached this: “The classical association of femininity with materiality can be traced to a set of etymologies which link matter with mater and matrix (or the womb) and, hence with the problematic of reproduction.” the show I was waiting for, the last night of Performance Mix Festival at Joyce Soho, presented by New Dance Alliance every year in downtown New York City, started.
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New Dance Alliance presents Performance Mix Festival at Joyce Soho

By QUINN BATSON
Offoffoff.com
MARCH 6, 2009

Eclectic and quirky are the first words that come to mind to describe an evening of the Performance Mix Festival that spreads itself over 2 weeks at Joyce Soho. There seems to be no unifying theme, but that seems to be no problem. All the pieces presented March 3 were interesting and all but one were really good. Even a strange little black and white film shown before the performances felt appetizing. Read more at Offoffoff.com

Reviews Choreography by: Erica Essner, Jil Guyon, Sigrid Keunen, Allison Lorenzen and Rebecca Patek, Keith A. Thompson.