PS122 Presents SUPERGABRIELA 11/4-5
PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF Cosmin Manolescu & Serial Paradise Company's SUPERGABRIELA
Two Nights Only!
Thursday, November 4 at 8 pm, including the Gabriela Tudor Foundation Launch
Friday, November 5 at 8 pm, with post-performance talk
Part 1: dreams.land, is directed by Cosmin Manolescu and performed by Camille Mutel & Litsa Kiousi. Part 2: superGabriela, is choreographed and performed by Cosmin Manolescu.
Manolescu continues his investigation of and desire to deepen the relationship between performers and audience by blindfolding individuals before leading them into a 360-degree, hyper-intimate environment where they may choose to experience dreams.land with or without their sight. The bond formed between performer and audience member carries through to superGabriela as Cosmin performs the emotionally intimate solo expressing the very personal story of lost love.
The performances of SUPERGABRIELA close a series of memorial events dedicated to Gabriela Tudor, Cosmin's manager and wife, whose work was infused with passion and dedication setting many landmarks in Romanian contemporary art. Thursday, November 4 celebrates the launch of the several US/Romanian exchange projects initiated by the Gabriela Tudor Foundation.
The performances also lead into Manolescu's latest cultural networking project, Available, which will be the product of a collaboration between Cosmin and an American choreographer. The two artists will exchange proposals and transatlantically develop two solos to be premiered together in Bucharest in 2011.
In addition to directing SUPERGABRIELA, Manolescu has initiated the Moving Dialogue and the Gabriela Tudor Memorial Exchange programs aiming to foster engagement and interaction between both emerging and established American and Romanian dance artists and managers. Both projects focus on dialogue, networking, artistic process and professional development for performers, choreographers, dance critics and cultural managers through studio research, group practice sessions, panel discussions, showings and residencies.
Cosmin Manolescu is a choreographer, performer and cultural manager based in Bucharest, Romania. He is the executive director of Gabriela Tudor Foundation and artistic director of Serial Paradise Company. His artistic work has been successfully presented as part of international festivals and venues in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Beirut, Bremen, Bucharest, Dublin, Florence, Liverpool, Lyon, New York, San Diego, Paris, Porto and Rome, among others. Together with Gabriela Tudor, Manolescu played an important role in the development of contemporary dance in Romania and in the establishment of the National Dance Centre in Bucharest, the only state institution for contemporary dance in Eastern Europe.
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COSMIN MANOLESCU'S SUPERGABRIELA runs two nights only: Thursday, November 4 at 8 p.m., including the Gabriela Tudor Foundation Launch and Friday, November 5 at 8PM, followed by a post-performance talk.
Tickets: $20 and $15 (students/seniors), $11 (with a PS122 Passport). Tickets and PS122 Passports are now on sale and available at www.ps122.org by calling TheaterMania at 212-352-3101, and at the Box Office in Performance Space 122.
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