Performances
The postcards were supposed to arrive early next week... but instead
(Come see Juice)
(Info here, FB here, Tickets here)
Juice | dancework from Katelyn Halpern & Dancers
June 9-10 | 8pm | The Alchemical Studios | New York |
juice is the first major work by katelyn halpern & dancers. we want you to see it + like it
please save the date
xo
KH&D has some beautiful structured improvisation in store for you at Triskelion's Never Before, Never Again festival this week! Here's what I have to say about the dance:
“Katelyn Halpern & Dancers presents an intimate world of improvised dance in Under the Cover of Night. Twin riverheads of egoless movement and stream-of-consciousness speech propel the dance score and invite tender, joyful performance choices; composer Elliot Cole accompanies the dance with a live, responsive electronic sound score. Under the Cover of Night is part of Katelyn Halpern & Dancers’ ongoing work with language and movement.”
Part of the creative team for NBNA, celebrating the birth of 2017
We'd love to see you there.
Tickets // Info // Visit Elliot Cole's Website
Dixon Place is celebrating 30 years, and we're doing our part for the get-down! The evening, December 30, 2016, features 30 choreographers each presenting 3 minutes or less - a jam packed evening - more info here!
KH&D has a new excerpt of Juice to share. Very fun. Very French. Very bob wig.
Katelyn Halpern & Dancers performs an excerpt of our ongoing work-in-progress Juice this Sunday, December 11, at 7:00p at Fertile Ground, hosted by the Green Space in Long Island City, New York.
Come see.
Tickets here.
If you missed "Build Up" at the Your Move Dance Festival in October, not to worry - I have a beautiful video to share with you! Thanks to Rafael Cruz for filming and the Your Move Dance Festival for presenting.
Katelyn Halpern & Dancers will present a new work-in-progress at HATCH on Saturday, 11/19 at Jennifer Muller/The Works Studio in Chelsea, New York. Tickets are $15-20 at the door.
Katelyn Halpern & Dancers
will preview new work
at Fertile Ground, hosted by the Green Space
on Sunday, December 11, 2016.
xo See you there xo
PC: Aleks Karjaka
Kate and I (K A T E S) played the opening night concert of this year's Omaha Under the Radar festival at Project Project! Instead of our usual piano+dance, we shared our newest piece, "Two Voices" by me and Leila Adu. It looked like this /\ !
photo: Shanna Shu
On Memorial Day, composer/husband Elliot Cole and I performed Container Garden: Broccoli Crowns::, a set of structured improvisations for flower pot percussion and dance.
Part I: Sorting
Part II: Free Duet #1
Part III: Family Portraits
Part IV: Free Duet #2
Part V: Mooncalf
Part VI: Earthquake
(Presented on CATCH takes Knockdown at the Knockdown Center in Maspeth, Queens.)
Performed by Bridget Grissom Louise Benkelman
Music: Jazz Drum Solo for Buddy Rich
May 3-5, 2016
Anita's Way, New York
Supported in part by a space grant from chashama
What fun we had the last two afternoons performing Dance for the Westbeth Elevator Lobby & Gold Shoes at All Over Westbeth! Thanks to WestFest 2016 for having us!
Set Down Your Mantle & Other Dances
Choreography by Katelyn Halpern
Performed by Louise Benkelman & Bridget Grissom
May 3-5, 4:00-7:00pm, Free
Anita's Way (the through-block connecting West 42nd and West 43rd St. between Broadway and 6th Ave.)
Supported in part by a space grant from chashama
We did our K A T E S thing last night at Switchboard Presents out in San Francisco. In the set we did some piano banging, some talky-talking, and some dancy-musicky styling. It looked kind of like this -->
I should also say that on this concert we gave the official world premiere performance of Two Voices, which is a semi-dramatic near-dialog concerning two women trying to talk about their shared past and future. The text is by me and music for prepared digital piano is by my composer collaborator Leila Adu. I started this piece in a bald effort to copy the wonders that I've seen from writer/composer/performer Paul Pinto over the last year; happily, Two Voices turned into something of its own along the way. It's a piece I'm really proud of, and I hope I get to share it with you soon.
Leila Adu released her Scary Love Monster EP on Friday (3.25.16) at The Cake Shop, and as part of the evening's events she screened the music video/dance film I made for her song Oriental Finger Trap. That's why my face is really big on the back wall! You can check out the video here.
It was last night. We played Digit #2; performed the work-in-progress I wrote with Leila Adu, called 2 Voices; and played/danced our old friends Medieval Induction, Isabelle Eberhardt Dreams of Pianos, and Stage Whisper (for Kate). Andie Springer and James Moore played a set, too, and they even let us help out. It was fantastic. Go team!
Thanks to my wonderful dancers and the Biomorphic Dance Festival for bringing this brand new work to life!
photo credit: Noel Valero
Build Up is a new work about comedy, coincidence and attention. It's a process piece set to stand up by comedian Tig Notaro, and it stands on the shoulders of post-modern giants Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer, specifically, their pieces Accumulation and Trio A. Movement research for this work was conducted in October 2015 at Anita's Way, supported in part by a space grant from chashama. Build Up premieres in its full form Saturday, March 19 at the Biomorphic Dance Festival (West End Theater, 263 W 86th St, New York, New York 10024). The show is at 8p and you can find tickets here!
Cast for March 19: Ambika Raina, Ashley Rose, Caroline Lloyd, Destiny Pino, Maddison Hilton, Mariya Paramonova, Parker Grant, and Sarah Kleinke
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