RoxanneLola MovementMachine presents the premiere of Anne Zuerner’s first evening length work, NEAR THE FAR, a site-specific contemporary dance work for CPR’s brand new performance space. This emotionally intense, cinematic work, features remarkable dancing by Emma Desjardins (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Ellie Kusner (Pam Tanowitz Dance), Adele Nickel (Sara Michelson’s Dover Beach, Liz Gerring Dance, CorbinDan…ces), and Anne Zuerner, as well as a haunting, original score for keyboard and synthesizer composed and performed live by Porcelain Skyline. Painter David Pappaceno contributes his visionary designs to CPR’s large white walls.

Performances will take place:

Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00pm,
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and 9:00pm.

Tickets are $17 and available online at smarttix.com, (212) 868-4444, and at the door.

Only 30 audience members may attend each performance, so reservations are recommended!

More infos: Center for Performance Research

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Tomorrow is the unique chance to preview new work by Daniel Arsham, Harrison Atelier and Jonah Bokaer at their space for collaboration on the Hudson River.

Arsham will preview studies for his upcoming solo exhibition with Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami scheduled to open during Art Basel/ Miami Beach 2010, and a selection from the ANCHISES (images of the rehearsals below) will be previewed.

ANCHISES, a collaboration between choreographer Jonah Bokaer and the design firm Harrison Atelier, gives visual and physical expression to the themes of aging, use and reuse of materials, and the role of space in determining the body’s range and potential. Featuring an inter-generational cast of five, ANCHISES stages new choreography by Bokaer in original stage designs by Harrison Atelier. The 70-minute work is set to a commissioned score by Loren Dempster, and performed by a multi-generational cast featuring Valda Setterfield, Meg Harper, Catherine Miller, James McGinn and Jonah Bokaer. With lighting by Aaron Copp and costumes by Christophe de Menil, the production receives its world premiere on October 6 in Bournemouth, UK at the newly opened Pavilion Dance, which commissioned the work and its US premiere in New York at the Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Art Center on November 17. A selection from the ANCHISES will be previewed.

Bus from Union Square North at 2pm, opening at 4pm, performance at 5pm.

Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served!

BE THERE and RSVP to shayna@susangrantlewin.com

Images taken by Maxime Büchi, © Harrison Atelier and Jonah Bokaer

After the show, I overheard Stefania Borras telling the press that her collection was about Mediterranean life. There was also a detail reference to jellyfish. I imagine it somehow far away from the sea in the black box of a modern dance studio. I would really love to see her collaborate on a dance performance here in New York. I wanted to stick her in my luggage and bring her home to Bill T Jones. It may prove more affordable (and comfortable) to float her her own ticket.

De l’or dans les hauteurs is a poem by Herman Melville that inspired Claire Denis in the direction of her rarely upsetting film Beau Travail (1999).

De l’or dans les hauteurs
Et de l’or dans le val,
La convoitise au cœur,
Pour le ciel nulle part
Pour l’homme nul bonheur.

that could be translated as

Gold in the mountain
And gold in the glen,
Greed in the heart,
Heaven having no part
And unsatisfied men.

The whole film unfolds like a continuous dance, and there’s as much choreography in the movements between shots as there is in the movements of the actors or the placement of the landscapes.

Below, the end scene, one of the most alive and electric moments in the film, where Denis Lavant performs a contained intensity cuts loose in a solitary disco dance to Corona’s Rhythm of the Night.

Art Collective YEMENWED presents “Woman Merges With Car” at Jack Henley Gallery

Thanks to Christelle de Castro for videos.

Tonight Gloria Maximo, who performs in the first video with coffee and laptop presents two of her beautiful paintings at WallSpace Gallery from 6-8pm at 619 West 27th Street NYC, NY.