This work continues an organization June 2020 on-line workshop efficiency with Safer. GJR members are joined by visitor performer Marcus McGregor to discover Greek tragedies, submit apocalyptic prospects, how terrible individuals are, and the way superior it may be to exist on the planet.
Carried out, co-created, and co-choreographed by maura nguyen donohue, John Maria Gutierrez, Valois Mickens, Kim Savarino and visitor artist Marcus McGregor
Directed/choreographed by Dan Safer
Textual content by Chuck Mee
Authentic Music by Julia Kent
Lights by Jay Ryan
Set by Sara Brown
Costumes by Alicia Austin
Sound Design by Attilio Rigotti
GREAT JONES REPERTORY is an Obie-winning firm identified for his or her experimental productions of Greek tragedies and modern work that make use of classical components, distinctive visible design, efficiency kinds, world music, and motion. Began in 1972 by Ellen Stewart, Andrei Serban, and Elizabeth Swados, Nice Jones Rep is an inter-generational, culturally-diverse ensemble of artists, performers, designers, and musicians.
Dan Safer (choreographer/director/co-creator) is the creative director of WR and has choreographed/directed all of their exhibits, in every single place, from the again rooms of bars in NYC to Théâtre Nationwide de Chaillot in Paris to an enormous leaky warehouse at a dance competition in Poland the place a lightweight fell off the grid midway through a present and virtually killed him. Dan just lately choreographed Jedermann, starring Lars Eidinger, on the Salzburg Pageant in Austria and Ashley Tata’s Dom Juan at Bard SummerScape. His work has been at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace, Les Subsistances (Lyon, France), and plenty of different locations. In 2011, he choreographed Stravinsky’s Ceremony of Spring for Philadelphia Orchestra with Obie-winners Ridge Theater. Artforum Journal referred to as him “pure expressionistic hazard” and Time Out NY referred to as him “a purveyor of lo-fi mayhem.” He has choreographed style exhibits, music movies, and movies, received kicked out of highschool for a 12 months, was a go-go dancer, was a member of Anhoni’s Blacklips Efficiency Cult within the Nineties, and as soon as choreographed the Queen of Thailand’s Birthday Social gathering. Dan taught at NYU for a few years and is at the moment Dance school at MIT Theater Arts.
Chuck Mee grew up in Illinois, headed east, and graduated from Harvard Faculty. Collaborations with Witness Relocation embrace Heaven On Earth, Eterniday, and Each day Life Eternal, all of which had their world premieres at La MaMa. He has collaborated extensively with the SITI firm, and has additionally written Vienna: Lusthaus, A Excellent Marriage ceremony, and numerous different performs along with his work impressed by Greek performs: Large Love, True Love, Trojan Girls: A Love Story, and others. Amongst different awards, he has obtained the lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His full works can be found on the web at charlesmee.org. His work is made potential by the assist of Jeanne Donovan Fisher and Richard B. Fisher.
Aristotle Thinks Once more is made potential by a grant from the Nationwide Endowment for the Arts for La MaMa Nice Jones Rep’s Humanismo: Historical Futures Collection.
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