BAX Announces PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION: Regarding Essential Bodies

For BAX's 20th Birthday Season, alumni, faculty, current and former resident artists provide a striking curatorial dynamism. They have pulled from their experiences and interests at and beyond BAX. As a group they represent BAX's past, present and future.

Mr. Moss' curatorial statement:

In The cast of Nameless forest I found myself working with some extraordinarily interesting and multi-talented artists. A few of which I had known for some time and a few who were completely new to me. During the process of our rehearsals they showed an uncommon level of insight, vulnerability and cohesion. It seemed only natural to want to respond to their intense personal dedication. Since I don't have an ongoing repertory company, when the opportunity arose to curate them at BAX I took it. I wanted to encourage their personal artistic aspirations and professional development as independent artists with aesthetic concerns and practices completely unrelated to my own, but through which we share a rich dialogue. Individually Sari, Pedro, Eric and Aaron each will bring something sincerely unique to the BAX audience. But I know you will also see the articulated vulnerability, emotional cohesion and aesthetic energy that together they share, and I find so fascinating.

About the Artists:

Eric Conroe
Eric Conroe is a Brooklyn-based dancer, choreographer, and poet, educated in Dance and Literature at Bennington College in Vermont. He is honored to be a performer in Dean Moss's company. He has also had the pleasure of working with Megan Byrne and Julian Barnett. Recently, he has presented his choreographic work in Manhattan (Movement Research), Queens (Green Space), Brooklyn (AUNTS Roadshow), many times at Mascher Space (Philadelphia), and at the Marfa Theatre (Marfa, Texas). Future choreographic work (a collaboration with the poet Chris Martin) can be seen at St. Mark's Church in May, under the auspices of the St. Mark's Poetry Project. His writing has appeared in The American Drivel Review, Poetic Diversity, and elsewhere. He would like to thank Dean for this opportunity.

Emulation, repetition, describing what has been repeated before, disappearance, repeating this, theme, theme intervening between a life of emulation and repetition, sustained faith-doubt in action, capturing small differences, smaller differences, emulating the difference, describing the disappearance, capturing the emulation, mouthing off, keeping your mouth shut to allow a story, turning into a giant lonely target, turning into a hot fast bowl of blood and shit. Eric Conroe will show a new work about faith, or lack thereof, in action; and about attempts at capturing and describing the differences between the smallest actions - and their disappearance.

Aaron Hodges & Kristin Hatleberg
Aaron Hodges is from the southern half of the country. He is a 2006 Circle in the Square Theatre School graduate. Recent projects include The Insomnambulist at the Ontological Hysteric Theater. Currently he is dancing for Dean Moss/Gametophyte. His band, Holy Spirits, is performing and recording in the NYC area. He would like to thank his father for inspiration for this work.

Kristin Hatleberg grew up in Pennsylvania and Northern California. Her choreographic work has been performed at Slippery Slope Institute in Maryland, Depot Dances in Garrison, NY, Studio 7 in Amsterdam, Chashama, Green Space Studios, Galapagos, Grounds for Sculpture, and Open Performance for Movement Research. She has performed for Wili Dorner, Eva Dean Dance, Fly by Night Dance Theater, Magpie Umbrella, Noemie Lafrance, and many other independent choreographers. In addition to performing, Kristin teaches preschool and assists for dance education residencies in the New York City public school system. She would like to tHank Aaron's father for inspiration for this work.

'it took nine days to eat' concerns the sociopath. The performance absorbs historical fragments of American homicide through poetic distortion and ritual voyeurism. We take interest in the suburban American landscape as a motif where sociopathic impulse is born and obsessed over. The crimes are unspeakable, yet the details renowned and readily available. We aim to exhume an unspeakable brutality through unspoken resonance.

Pedro Jiminez
Pedro Jiminez was born in Englewood NJ. He likes flowers freedom and honesty. He was mostly raised in South Florida / Queens New York and grew up fishing, painting, playing sports, street skating, and being inspired by Michael Jackson. He realized performing during his last year of High School. In 2000 he created multi media performing works with his good friend Darkeem Dennis in the Bronx. He later was offered to share works as a choreographer with BAAD! the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance as well as with Pepatians Jump it Up Dance Series, Dixon Place, Aaron Davis Hall (Harlem Stage), Judson Church, AUNTS, Joyce Soho, and the Kitchen with Dance and Process curated by Miguel Gutierrez. He is a recipient of the Whitney Museums MARK ROTHKO Award, Aaron Davis Halls (Harlem Stage) A Fund For New Work Grant by the Jerome and Howard Gilman Foundation and a Scholarship with STREB 2005. He loves all who love with love.

"the river is rare and peace is you. sharing is like a kitchen knife, it is clumsy in the mornings. the water is black and black with red all over. Those who are sentenced to life reflect waters. only those who see people possess senses that people do. .keep living."

Sari Nordman & Maxine Steinhaus
Sari Nordman has presented her choreography in the US and in Finland since 1996. Most recently her work has been seen at the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance!, Movement Research at the Judson Church and Columbia University. Working as a dancer with choreographers Douglas Dunn, Dean Moss, Susan Rethorst and Melinda Ring has been influential in shaping her own work. The American Scandinavian Society and Consulate General of Finland have recently supported her choreographic endeavors in New York. She holds an M.F.A. degree in modern dance from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.

Maxine Steinhaus has been teaching English as a Second Language at NYU's American Language Institute since 1981. She studied dance in college at Bard College and the New School for Social Research as part of a Liberal Arts Degree. She has been a member of Naomi Goldberg Haas' Dances for a Variable Population since 2005 where she met and danced with Sari Nordman. This performance is dedicated to her husband, Don Mount, who inspired some of the work.

We're having a tough time is a duet for aging female dancers choreographed by Sari Nordman in collaboration with Maxine Steinhaus. This new duet explores aging, and the pressures that one experiences when trying to stay current. Body and mind age and so do relationships. Couples that have stayed together for many years have been interviewed for research purposes in the preparation of the piece. How do they stay current and keep their relationships spiced up when their bodies and minds age and their relationships age?

ABOUT THE SERIES:

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange's PERFORMANCE & DISCUSSION SERIES, "offers dance audiences a regular opportunity to impact [artists] from the ground floor..." (Chris Dohse, New York Press).
As BAX continues to celebrate its 20th Birthday Season, former and current BAX Artists In Residence have been invited to curate the season. Curators include lucianna achugar, Shannon Hummel, Jennie MaryTai Liu, Fernando Maneca, Dean Moss, Jessi Phillips-Fein and Judith Sloan.

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