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Photos: Steven Schreiber
Photos: Steven Schreiber
Photos: Steven Schreiber
Photos: Alex Escalante
Photos: Steven Schreiber
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What Change (2009/2010)
Performers: Deborah Black, Gideon Crevoshay, Mare Hieronimus and Peter Sciscioli Running Time: 50 min. Concept and Direction: Peter Sciscioli Composition: Peter Sciscioli, with additional material byFrederick Hollander and Sammy Lerner What Change investigates the nature of transformation in performance through a kinetic, sonic and temporal consideration of the world’s current state of affairs. Using stark and formal configurations, the work seeks to simultaneously offer a subjective and objective view of the performers who engage in task-like, yet emotionally driven behaviors. The spaces between persona and essence, character and caricature are questioned and explored. The work exists as a series of highly structured improvisations, involving explosive and kinetic as well as pedestrian movements, original vocal scores, text, song, and pre-recorded music. Performances: 2010 BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, NY Earthdance, Plainfield, MA Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, NYC City Center, Studio 4, NYC 2009 Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYC Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y, NYC What Change was created, in part, with a space grant from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and with support from an Outer/Space Creative Residency at BAX. Outer/Space is a program of Dance Theater Workshop and is supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York City Council. Additional rehearsal and performance development was provided by Earthdance’s inaugural E|MERGE Residency, supporting interdisciplinary performance practice and collaboration. shortcomings/Tall Tales (2006/2009) Performers: Robbie Cook and Peter Sciscioli Running Time: 25 min. A physical theater piece created, written and performed in collaboration with Robbie Cook. Auto-biographical text and song collide with movement ranging from full bodied and aggressive to gestural and tender in this duet that investigates the nature of intimacy between men, regardless of sexual preference. Humorous, jarring, affectionate and antagonistic, shortcomings / Tall Tales probes the mysterious, often intangible dynamic of men on the verge of expressing “true feelings.” Performances: 2009 Dixon Place, NYC 2008 Dixon Place (Under Exposed; Jack Ferver, Curator), NYC 2007 Danspace Project @ BRICstudio (Out of Space Series), NYC 2006 La MaMa E.T.C. (Duets Series; Nicky Paraiso, Curator), NYC Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y (Natural Order), NYC The Flea (Dance Conversations; Nina Winthrop, Curator), NYC Tonic (Little Theater Series; Mike Taylor, Curator), NYC Shady Corners Festival (Pooh Kaye, Curator), Milford, NY “humorously perplexed…”- Gia Kourlas, The New York Times “extremely funny…”- Jack Anderson, New York Theater Wire hehimIme (2005/2011) Performer: Peter Sciscioli Running Time: 11 min. A physical theater solo influenced by teaching creative movement to children with autism. In hehimIme, concerns of repetition, fixation and abandon are channeled through improvised movements and spatial exploration. Text from classroom exercises, vocalizations, and audience interaction are interspersed to reveal a character in the process of discovering himself and his relationship to the world. Performances: 2011 Western Massachusetts Moving Arts Festival/Earthdance, MA 2009 Dixon Place, NYC 2008-10 excerpt included in Amy Caron’s Waves of Mu Duke University, Durham, NC; Rose Wagner Theater, Salt Lake City, UT; PS122, NYC; Out North, Anchorage, AK; Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, AK; Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT 2006 Shady Corners Festival (Pooh Kaye, Curator), Milford, NY 2006 The Field Artist Residencies (FAR) Space, NYC 2005 Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYC T.r.a.n.s.m.i.s.s.i.o.n. (2008) Performers: Hope Davis, Mare Hieronimus, Storme Sunderberg (dancers); Emily Eagen, Holly Nadal, Rebecca Stanton (vocalists) Running Time: 10 min. Music: Meredith Monk Where does sound originate in the body? How can voice become movement? This work for three dancers and three musicians draws its inspiration from Meredith Monk’s Epic, Sciscioli’s own idiosyncratic movement vocabulary, and his experience performing Monk’s work as a co-founder of The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation. The three singers (part of M6) are directly incorporated into the staging of the piece, crafted specifically for each of the spaces in which it is performed. Performances: 2008 Movement Research Spring 2008 Gala honoring Meredith Monk and Joseph V. Melillo, Judson Church, NYC Harkness Dance Center at the 92nd Street Y, NYC Movement Research at the Judson Church, NYC The Cameo Project (2006/2008) Performers: Nancy Alfaro, Cynthia Bueschel, Montzerrat Contreras, Robbie Cook, Emily Eagen, LoMa Familar, Ryutaro Mishima, Benjamin Rasmussen and Clayton Dean Smith Running Time: 50min. The Cameo Project is a series of 9 solos that were developed between December 2006 and March 2008 with artists of varying backgrounds in dance, music and theater. Each solo is 3-5 minutes and is based on the participants’ autobiographical material and their responses to the same four questions. All 9 performers are seated on each side of the stage for the duration of the show and have “cameos within cameos,” appearing for brief moments in other solos or interacting with each other during entrances and exits. Conceptually the project explores the fleeting nature of identity, the notion of temporary communities, and everyone’s need to act creatively in some way. Performances: 2008 Dixon Place, NYC (evening length production) SOLD OUT! 2007 Dixon Place (Moving Men Series), NYC 2006 Limina Projects (Salon Performance), Brooklyn, NY |