M O R E A B O U T
A V A N T - G A R D E - A r a m a - L A N D S I N W O O D S T O C K
Avant-Garde-Arama
was originally created in 1980 by performance artist Charles Dennis and
musician/visual artist Jeffrey Isaac at the legendary East Village,
Manhattan venue Performance Space 122 (P.S. 122) now Performance Space
New York and continues to be presented there.
LANDS IN WOODSTOCK.
Charles Dennis Productions is pleased to announce the presentation of Avant-Garde-Arama Lands in Woodstock, a festival of short works of dance, film, music, performance art, poetry & puppetry Saturday and Sunday July 24-25 at 8pm at the Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Avenue in Woodstock, NY. Admission is $20. For further information call 917-673-9023 or email charles@charlesdennis.net.
Featured Artists & Biographies.
Adia Tamar Whitaker & her dance film “On The Matter” – a reaction to the 30th anniversary of the Rodney King murder in Los Angeles
Adia Tamar Whitaker has performed contemporary vernacular movement, modern & Afro-Haitian dance in the U.S. and abroad for 16 years. Adia completed her BA in Dance at San Francisco State University (2001), the Professional Division U.S. Independent Studies Program at the Ailey School (2001), was Choreoquest Resident Artist @ Restoration Dance Theater (2004), a Ford Foundation Special Initiative for Africa Grant Recipient ((2004), an Urban Bush Women Apprentice (2005) and a Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography @ FSU Creative Entry Point Choreographic Fellow (2006). She is a former artist-in residence of the counter-PULSE Performing Diaspora (2009/2010), a recipient of the Theater Bay Area CA$H Grant and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant (2009). In 2011, Whitaker along with her other cast members received an Isadora Duncan Award for her performance in the choreopoem she wrote, directed, choreographed and costumed called “Ampey!”
Charles Dennis & his dance duet with a stack of 2x4 lumber, “2 x 2 x 4”, featuring live electric guitar music by Sal Cataldi
Charles Dennis is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, director/producer, video cameraman/editor and proprietor of Charles Dennis Productions, a company that produces & distributes digital media content for artists and business clients. Charles has been an active participant in downtown New York dance and performance for over 40 years. In the 1970’s he performed in many of theater director Robert Wilson’s early works. In 1979 Charles co-founded Performance Space 122, one of this country’s most active presenters of new dance and performance. He created and performed solo and large group community-oriented performances at P.S. 122 and other venues from 1980-2000, receiving numerous fellowships. In 2000 Charles started Charles Dennis Productions where he works as a cameraman, editor, director and producer of digital media content for a host of clients. He also creates short films that explore the creative possibilities of digital video art. He has presented his critically acclaimed inter-disciplinary dance, performance art and video in [the P.S. 122] venue for the past 40 years.
Isobel Seabrook, & her dance solo “Mattress Dance”, a piece inspired by Larry Keigwin's hour-long work, "Mattress Suite," and the universal experience of having difficulty falling asleep. Based on the stages of the sleep cycle, the piece traces the mover's brain activity through dance, beginning and ending with wakefulness, but never quite achieving stillness and rest in the process.
Isobel Seabrook is a dancer and choreographer based out of the Hudson Valley, New York. She began her training in traditional irish dance at age five with Joel Hanna at the Rhinebeck Dance Centre. Since then, she has explored her passion for myriad dance genres from percussive dance styles and traditions to contemporary and more. As a member of the D'amby Project Dance Company, Isobel had the pleasure of performing works at venues such as Steps on Broadway, the Riverside Theatre, the Irish Arts Center Festival at Chelsea Piers, and the Fisher Center at Bard College. Isobel recently graduated with a major in dance from CUNY Queens College, where she performed works by classmates and professors, stage managed a student choreography showcase, and created an original dance film thesis project.
Phillip X Levine & his poetry, old and new, as well as hosting a poetry raffle in which poets in attendance can pay $3 to enter to win a chance to read a poem. The winner receives a $20 admission refund. Proceeds from the raffle will be donated to Family of Woodstock.
Phillip X Levine is approximately an actor and poet, and, actually, the poetry editor for Chronogram magazine and president of the Woodstock Poetry Society. For over 8 years he hosted the weekly "Open Mic Forever" at the Colony Cafe in Woodstock, NY. A labor of labor. He has been described as "Wallace Stevens meets Steven Wright."
Sal Calaldi & his Spaghetti Eastern Music, which fuses krautrock and jazz fusion-fired guitar instrumentals with intimate vocal ballads. Sal Cataldi is a Saugerties & NYC based guitarist/keyboardist. Sal’s solo project Spaghetti Eastern Music fuses krautrock and jazz fusion-fired guitar instrumentals with intimate vocal ballads straight out of the Nick Drake/John Martyn playbook. The New York Times says “Cataldi's funk-tinged original instrumentals and acoustic vocal tunes have a beat unmistakably his own” while Time Out New York writes: "his largely instrumental, Eastern-influenced jams are infused with some delicate guitar work and hauntingly moody atmosphere." Hudson Valley One calls him “part Sergio Leone fever dream, part Ravi Shankar raga, a whirling dervish of musical creation.”
Shayna Strype & an excerpt from her eco-feminist most recent work of puppetry/performance art work “MINE”.
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