Announcement: 60X60 Dance at the World Financial Center

November 12, 2009 by iDANZ Today
Filed under iDANZ NewsWire, iDANZ Performance Bulletins

60×60 DANCE:

60 composers are paired with 60 New York choreographers
for an electrifying hour of
60 original one-minute collaborations

"How short can a work be for it to get its message across?"

WHEN: Friday, November 13. Two shows: 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m.

WHERE: Winter Garden at the World Financial Center,
220 Vesey Street, NYC

TICKETS: Free

"An express without any delay….It’s this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round."—The New York Times

World Financial Center joins forces with the NY-based music consortium Vox Novus to present 60×60 Dance — a one-hour multimedia extravaganza featuring an exciting mix of contemporary dance and electronic music. Embracing a grass-roots ideology, 60×60 Dance takes 60 one-minute audio works culled from an international pool of emerging and established composers and assigns them to an equal mix of 60 local choreographers assembled by Amiti Perry. The resulting collaborations are presented, without interruption, as a continuous one-hour performance synchronized to an on-stage analog clock.

"A minute can be plenty of time to express a whole gamut of imaginative sounds and movements, or it can be a challenge, forcing the artist to isolate what is most important in his/her work," Vox Novus’s founder/director Robert Voisey explains. "60×60’s goal is to disseminate a cross-section of aesthetics in an exciting format to a broad spectrum of people."

Eclectic by nature, 60×60 Dance offers an unmatched diversity of styles, making for a fast-speed, electrifying one-of-a-kind performance that never ceases to surprise. Dance influences will range from ballet to postmodern movements, while music includes neo-romantic, folk, tech-house, noise, rock and everything but the kitchen sink.

The 60 composers include Aaron Acosta, Christopher Ariza, Dwight Ashley, Dennis Barthory-Kitsz, Jay Batzner, Adam Basanta, Justin Brierley, Ben Boone, Halsey Burgund, Hermes Camacho, Danny Clay, David Congo, Alvin Curan, Matthew Dotson, Mark Eden, Morgan Fisher, Enrico Francioni, Kraig Grady, Cem Guney, Richard Hall, Yoko Honda, Masaaki Iseki, Lynn Job, Bernadette Johnson, Tova Kardonne, Aaron Krister Johnson, Timo Kahlen, Tova Kardonne, Michiko Kawagoe, Anton Killin, HyeKyung Lee, Brian Lindgren, Angela McGary, John Maycraft, Pasquale Mainolfi, Leslie Melcher, Polly Moller, Josue Moreno, David Morneau, Peter Mottram, Alexander Mouton, Paul I Oehlers, Doug Opel, Christophe Petchanatz, Kala Pierson, Gene Pritsker, Robert Ratcliffe, Matt Schickele, Philip Schuessler, Les Scott, Diana Simpson, Steven Snowden, Jorge Sosa, Laurie Spiegel, Aart Uunivers, Gregory Yasinitsky, Patricia Walsh, Jane Wang, Andrew Weathers, Andrew Willingham, and Natal Zaks.

The 60 choreographers include Nadia Fischer, Julie Turner and Emily Maurer, Alanna Marie Urda /Amalgamate, Julie Fortheringham, Saint Yes Is Magic, Emily Bufferd, Alaine Handa, Sasha Soreff, Jennifer Medina, Cara Surico, Sean Hilton, Rani Welch, Jessie Tomanek, Michelle Puskas, Astrid von Ussar, Whitney V. Hunter, Germaul Barnes, Luke Murphy, Mika, Alexandra Jennings, Dana Fisch, Kathryn Luckstone, Angela Harris, Julieta Valero, Victoria Scanga, Nicole Phillipidis, J. Morgan Chambers, Brittney Jensen, Shandoah Goldman, Rachel Korenstein, James Morrow, Hsiao-Wei, Hsieh & Hsiao-Ting, Hsieh, Monica Ordonez, Megan Hornaday, Kalamandir Dance Company, Vigdid Hentze Olen, Darnetha Lincoln M’Baye, Slaveya Starkov, Lillibelle and Wild Red, Korhan Basaran, Einy Aam Sparks, Kaoru Ikeda, Marni Halasa, Pascal Rekoert, Song Hee Lee & Karen Kreigel, Amiti Perry, Erin Bomboy, Lea Fulton, Laura Shapiro, Sari Nordman, Kirsten Klein, Alison Jones, Tina Croll, Katie Taylor, Harry Jefferson, Eve Chalom, Caron Eule, Marianne Delehanty, and Heather Favaretto.

60×60 was originally conceived of as an electronic music project, collecting 60-second works by composers and sound artists from around the world. From the beginning 60×60 was a natural vehicle for collaborating with other art forms. Initially this included video, photography and sculpture. In 2007, 60×60 teamed up with choreographers and 60×60 Dance was born. Since its inception, 60×60 has featured the work of more than 1200 composers and 500 choreographers.

60×60 Dance in New York is presented by Vox Novus and arts>World Financial Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Merrill Lynch.

For more information on arts>World Financial Center, visit www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com

For more information on Vox Novus and 60×60, go to: http://www.voxnovus.com/60×60.htm

For the 2009-2010 season Vox Novus is taking 60×60 Dance on the road. Performances include:

12/05/09: 60×60 (2009 / International Mix) Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, California

12/04/09: 60×60 Dance (2008 / Canada Mix) 60 one minute dances by different choreographers organized by Violaine Morinville Oscar Peterson Theater, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

12/03/09: 60×60 (2009 / International Mix)Full Moon Concerts – Long Night’s Moon San Francisco, California

11/21/09: 60×60 Dance (2008 / Canada Mix) 60 one minute dances by different choreogrpahers organized by Violaine Morinville Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

11/15/09: 60×60 Video (2009 / International Mix) collaboration with Patrick LiddellStimultania art gallery in Strasbourg, France

11/13/09: 60×60 Dance (2009 / International Mix) 60 one minute dances by different choreographers organized by Amity Perry, presented by World Financial Center at the Winter Garden Atrium, New York City

11/13/09: 60×60 Video (2009 / International Mix) collaboration with Patrick Liddell New Music Juke Joint, Mississippi

11/13/09: 60×60 Audio (2009 / International Mix) Central Michigan University, Michigan

11/08/09: 60×60 Dance (2009 / International Mix) 60 one minute dances by different choreographers organized by Amiti Perry, presented by New Music Circle at MadArt, St Louis, Missouri

11/06/09: 60×60 Dance (2009 / International Mix) 60 one minute dances by different choreographers organized by Amiti Perry, presented by Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Kansas City, Kansas 10/14/09 60×60 (2009 / International Mix) University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

10/03/09: 60×60 Dance (2009 / International Mix) 60 one minute dances by different choreographers organized by Amiti Perry, Wallstreet, Columbus, Ohio

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