Stephan Koplowitz returns to Houston after the grand site-specific dance that opened Rice University’s Humanities building in 2000. He will be working with DiverseWorks to create a site specific work in May of 2012.
Audition: Wed, Jan. 25, 6-10 pm
Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex, 2201 Preston St., Houston TX 77003
Performances: May 19 & 20
Rehearsal residencies: Thu-Mon, March 8-12 and Sat – Fri, May 12-18
Performers selected to participate will be compensated.
Who should come:
Adventurous dancers of all ages who are technically trained in contemporary movement, skilled in various improvisation practices, partnering and have experience in developing process based work for alternative spaces…
RSVP via email with a resume and send to: sixto@diverseworks.org
Please also bring a hard copy of your resume to the audition
About the work…
TaskForce provides the means to enter into a creative dialogue with a chosen area by creating site-specific performances for several sites within a community that actively engage a variety of artists and organisations derived from the community where the company performs. TaskForce aims to renew a people’s perspective on their environment and through performance enter into conversations about the creative process and public life.
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About the Artistic Director…
Stephan Koplowitz is a director/choreographer/media artist known for his work on the concert stage and for creating original site-specific multi-media works for architecturally significant sites. Since 1984, he has created 56 works and has been awarded 40 commissions. He is the recipient of a 2004 Alpert Award in the Arts, a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography and a 2000 Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in Choreography.
Koplowitz’ works include Genesis Canyon at the Natural History Museum (1996, Time Out Award for Best Dance Production) and Babel Index (1998, at the British Library) for Dance Umbrella and Fenestrations at New York’s Grand Central Station (1987/1999).
In 2004, he premiered his Grand Step Project: Flight, performed by 50 dancers, on six different grand staircases in NYC and seen by 16,000 people. Revealed (2007) was a site-adaptive installation/performance involving room size camera obscuras, installed at MASS MoCA and the Mead Museum, Amherst and seen by over 5,000 people in addition to generating a portfolio of museum quality photographs. His recent work includes participating in Breaking Ground (2008), A Choreographic Charette produced by Dancing in the Streets and a commission for the new Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston (2007).