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 Photos: Steven Schreiber











 Photos: Steven Schreiber



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Photos: Alex Escalante
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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