White Oaks, a short film by the Shua Group and filmmaker Diana Quiñones Rivera was created during a New Dance Alliance 2008 residency at White Oak through the support of the Howard Gilman Foundation. The film will be presented at the Performance Mix Festival on February 24 and 25 at Joyce SoHo.
In White Oaks a white clad couple appears in a gothic, sanitized, recreational Southern landscape. Through a subtle play with movement and stillness, they frame scenes which suggest larger narratives of site: a canoe and turquoise fountain, a orange ball rocking in royal green bowling alley, and two bodies disappearing under a shimmering pool.
Shua Group (www.shuagroup.org) is a performance group focused on movement projects which interact with living scenes. 2008 projects included Giant Place Detail, at World Financial Center (NYC) and Public Moves Federal Hill hosted by American Visionary Arts Museum, Baltimore. Shua Group has collaborated with filmaker Diana Quiñones Rivera on several projects, included Crowded Action and Absorb. These short films can be seen at shuagroup.org. Ms. Rivera’s documentary of Shua Group’s site-specific work Giant Place Detail will premier in the fall 2009.
The 2008 White Oak Residency also included artists Cynthia Hopkins, Victoria Libertore, Megan Metcalf, Ryan Migge and facilitated by Karen Bernard.
Great compilation of excerpts of performances from the festival with a broad variety of performers, dancers and choreographers. From 1991 to 2006.
It is an important documentation of the Downtown New York City scene of the last 15 years.
With excerpts of performances by Jenifer Monson,Ishmael, Houston-Jones, Kelly Garfield, RoseAnne Spradlin, ChenekiLerner, Guy Yarden, Dennis O’Connor among others…
“My creative history with New Dance Alliance goes a way long. Since my friend, Chivas Sandage brought me to New Dance Alliance to rehearse in early 90’s, the place has become a part of my creative life. The long time existence of the studio and Performance Mix Festival are vital to the artists who seek and explore deep into their process. Whenever I step into the studio, it’s a new space with a lot of memories. I lie down on the floor, listen to my body, and I dance. It is valuable. The time in the space nurtures my practice and artistic vision. Karen’s vision of Lift-Off residency, feedback sessions, providing peer to peer connections are more significant than ever. It has been helping us to get through 2020 and we are going into 2021.”
– Nami Yamamoto
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