Member Spotlight: Colleen Healy

International Women Artists’ Salon is thrilled to announce member Colleen Healy’s second New York City solo exhibition of her photographic work…

New Mythologies
Colleen Healy

21 September –21 November 2010

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2010
7 – 9pm

Lolita Bar
266 Broome Street
New York, NY 10002
212.966.7223
www.lolitabar.net
HOURS: 5pm – 4am 

This exhibition showcases selections from two ongoing series: Gorgon and Maiden Mother Crone. Gorgon is more confrontational; entirely made up of self-portraits and exploring the subjective nature of the gaze. Maiden Mother Crone mixes images of women of different ages to examine the inherent changes of living.  Both series build on mythology, archetypes, and the Symbolist, Surrealist, Expressionist artistic movements.  Jungian psychoanalysis locates both gorgons and the maiden, mother, crone trinity as archetypes. Gorgons serve as symbols of dangerous female sexuality while the trinity of the three ages of women represent transformations undergone in a lifetime.  The Symbolist, Surrealist, and Expressionist movements illustrated psychoanalytical ideas with female forms.  In a more contemporary context, decades of feminism combined with the postmodern movement highlight the importance of the individual, often expressed through portraiture.

My photographs, made with multiple exposures on 4 x 5 sheet film and the use of solarization and experimental toning mix portraiture with figure study. The subject matter is women, young, old, and in between. They confront the viewer with the female form as actor rather than spectacle. Women of different ages, superimposed over one another, challenge standard ideals of beauty. By presenting parts of different women, I insist upon recognition of these parts as valuable to the whole. The processes I choose enhance the variability in photographic techniques and challenge any assumption that this medium is a direct reflection of reality. I approach an inner reality by overlapping abstraction and representation. The eerie reversals and understated colors of my darkroom processes enhance the juxtaposition of different female forms for a visceral evocation of archetypes. The overlay of compelling body parts: perky breasts, slender limbs, alluring eyes and lips, with unattractive ones: wrinkles, bony knees, nostrils, tricks the viewer into admiring a beautiful shape that resolves into a characteristic rarely considered appealing. With form and color I confound the perception of subject and background in order to defy ideas about women’s bodies that attract or repel.

COLLEEN HEALY
166 Harman Street, Brooklyn, NY 11221  
mobile: (917) 435-7263     e-mail: collhealy@gmail.com
website: www.behance.net/colleenhealyart

Colleen Healy Bio
The fine art potentials of photography have always fascinated me. This medium crosses all boundaries from news to snapshots as it defines the way in which we look at the world. I am interested in exploring different ways to challenge the straight forward photographic image which places the world in a box.

I graduated the MFA program at the Hartford Art School University of Hartford after building on my undergraduate training at University of Delaware with photofinishing and alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype and gum bichromate in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I moved to New York City to further pursue the fine art aspects of photography.

Member Spotlight: Orietta Crispino, "Three Sisters Come and Go"

THREE SISTERS COME AND GO has an international pedigree; director Orietta Crispino and dramaturg Marco Casazza met over 25 years ago when he was her student at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.  While in Italy, Crispino assisted some of the country's finest directors, including Giorgio Strehler and Massimo Castri.  She has lived and worked in New York City for the past decade while Casazza continues to work in Italy.



Set between the apparently opposite poles of Chekhov and Beckett, THREE SISTERS COME AND GO follows the lives of the three archetypical Chekhovian women and their desire to reconstitute their lives beyond their sense of profound loss. Bound to living together, each of the sisters is comically obsessed with being the most unhappy of the group.

Performances run September 29th through October 10th at Theaterlab (137 West 14th St., between 6th and 7th Ave.). 

Performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm with an additional performance Sunday, October 3rd at 7pm.  There is no performance on Thursday, October 1st.  Press dates are September 29th and October 2nd at 8pm and Sunday, October 3rd at 3pm and 7pm.



Below is the link to the press kit and her to our web site

http://www.theaterlabnyc.com/Theaterlab3/Theaterlab.html
https://sites.google.com/site/threesisterscomeandgo/press-kit-1

I hope you can join us this fall!

Member Spotlight: Kelley Donovan, Summer Winds

Contact: Rani Welch,  Rani@TheRoverSoho.com
or Press@TheRoverSoho.com
646-808-9080
The Rover SoHo presents

 

 

 

Summer Winds
a breath of fresh air with four on-the-verge female choreographers
Diane Tomasi, Kelley Donovan, Rani Welch and Jessica Taylor

September 25th  & 26th at 7:00pm

41 Wooster Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY

$15 General Admission, tickets at the door, cash only
for reservations visit www.brownpapertickets.com
www.TheRoverSoho.com
Call (646) 808-9080 or Rani@TheRoverSoho.com for information.  

Photos Happily Provided Upon Request

                                                         


At the end of a long hot season, we bring you Summer Winds, a dance event, curated and produced by Rani Welch, founder and Art Director of The Rover SoHo, a brand new gallery/performance venue with a vision to stretch your artistic arm, as well as your imagination. Outside out-of-the-box, rooftop ordinary to fantastical, lush, dynamic and polished indoors, highlighting the work of Diane Tomasi, Kelley Donovan, Rani Welch and Jessica Taylor, Summer Winds is a breath of fresh air with four on-the-verge female choreographers.

Summer Winds is the first event at The Rover to begin outside on the cobblestones of old Wooster Street with site specific work by Jessica Taylor accompanied by live Bass from Dane Markle-Klapp.  From there the show trickles inside and out onto The Rover rooftop for The World of Else with choreography and video installation created by Diane Tomasi. Premiering at the same venue, Saturday, September 25, and Sunday, September 26, 7pm, at 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York.  Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door (cash only) or for reservations visit www.brownpapertickets.com.

Culminating at the main stage, are Kelley Donovan and Dancers with Age of Unraveling, a new work exploring cycle of creation, destruction and rebuilding.  Jessica Taylor with Momentum, and Rani Welch/Tribe of Human with an excerpt from Light the Branches, a collaborative effort between Tribe of Human and The Batteries Duo (www.thebatteriesduo.com) to premiere September 18-19, 8pm at The Rover SoHo.  An excerpt from this work will be performed as a part of Summer Winds on September 25-26.

Jessica Taylor, originally hailing from St. Louis, received her BA in modern dance from Point Park University in Pittsburgh.  Choreography credits include the American College Dance Festival, the Amalgamate Artist Series, SUNY Purchase, Pittsburgh Playhouse Dance Company, and Squonk Opera, among others.  Currently she is a freelance choreographer and dances with Emily Faulkner and Dajhia Ingram Dance.

Diane Tomasi began Kusterflux, in 2008, and has shown work in various ‘underground’ venues in New York and Massachusetts.  Mainly places that weren’t dance spaces previously, such as The Brooklyn Barbell Club, Studio 43, and now The Rover Rooftop.  Kusterflux likes to play, the crazier the circumstances the better.       

Rani Welch, founder and Art director of The Rover SoHo, studied with Joe Goode and Victoria Marks at The Harvard Dance Program, received her MFA from University of Iowa, studied at Jacob's Pillow with Bessie Schonberg, and improvisation at UCB Theater in NY.  She has performed in several independent films, and hosted Horror Conventions around the nation. Tribe Of Human is a dance theater experience that involves text, song, movement, intense costume and nudges to pop culture, stitching human moments and creating immediate environments, blasting it onstage to be tossed around and marinated.

Kelley Donovan has performed work by Ann Carlson and Liz Lerman and her work has been produced by World Music/Crasharts, MIT, Harvard and The Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, Joyce SoHo, Movement Research, The DUO Theater, The Lohan Gallery, The Cherry Lane Theater, Galaplogos and the 92nd St. Y in New York City.  Kelley studied choreography with Mark Morris and Bessie Schönberg. The company has a new blog delineating their creative process, kddcompany.wordpress.com.

Member Spotlight: Kelley Donovan, AGE OF UNRAVELING

AGE OF UNRAVELING 

CHOREOGRAPHY BY KELLEY DONOVAN & DANCERS

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH AT  6:30PM

PERIDANCE STUDIO, 126 E. 13TH UNION SQUARE, NYC

$20.00 GENERAL ADMISSION, $15 STUDENTS/SENIORS

CALL 617-388-3247 OR kddcompany@yahoo.com  

FOR RESERVATIONS OR CHECK http://kddcompany.wordpress.com  for information.

Meagan Bruskewicz, Amy Campbell, Kelley Donovan, Kristen Klein,

Anri Nakano, Kirsten Schnittker, Lucy York Struever, Sophie Torok,

Oshini Wanigasekera and Aya Wilson

GUEST CHOREOGRAPHERS: LUCY YORK STRUEVER, ANRI NAKANO, OSHINI WANIGASEKERA AND KRISTEN KLEIN

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Our next show is October 1 & 2 at the ICA in Boston,

with Danny McCusker and Caitlin Corbett, go to www.worldmusic.org for tix!

Kelley Donovan & Dancers classes

http://kddcompany.wordpress.com/classes

Blog, about our process

http://kddcompany.wordpress.com/

Member Spotlight: Kelley Donovan, CREATIVE MODERN DANCE

CREATIVE MODERN DANCE

at Moving Body Resources

3 Classes Tuesdays: Starting September 15th

112 West. 27th St., 4th Floor, NYC (Between 6th & 7th Ave)
taught by Kelley Donovan


3 Tuesdays Dance Classes Starting September 15th  6-7pm
&
3 Tuesdays Choreography/Performance Workshop  7-8pm
(students are encouraged to attend the early Tuesday class for warm up)

$45 /per Thursday class, both classes meet: September 15th, 22nd and 29th 

Pre-registration required.  To register call 617-388-3247 or kddcompany@yahoo.com for info.

This class is for adult dancers with a little experience and is a great place to start if you are coming back to dance or have never created dance before.  Attention will be paid to developing strength, flexibility, balance and coordination.  The class incorporates ideas from Limon, Cunningham and Release techniques.  The class will move through a warm up that builds strength and clarifies alignment principals followed by fluid phrases with an emphasis on performance quality, focus and presence.  Participants will get a chance to create collaboratively and learn how to develop movement structures that explores the basic elements of space, time and force.  The second class of the evening will focus on creating a short work of choreography over the three weeks.

Kelley Donovan has performed work by Liz Lerman and Ann Carlson and has taught dance at  MIT,  and currently teaches modern dance at Umass. Her choreography has been produced by World Music/Crasharts, MIT, Harvard and The Federal Reserve Bank in Boston and The Merce Cunningham Studio, Joyce SoHo, The Hatch, Movement Research and the 92nd St. Y in New York City. Kelley studied choreography with Mark Morris and Bessie Schönberg and other artists in Boston.
 

If you have any questions contact kddcompany@yahoo.com or check kddcompany.wordpress.com

Kelley Donovan & Dancers classes
http://kddcompany.wordpress.com/classes

Member Spotlight: Melissa Riker

Kinesis Project presents PARK DANCES in Fort Tryon Park on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010.

Family-friendly performances take place at 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, and 4:00 PM on The Cloisters Lawn.

The dancers of Pressing Empty will be framed by the amazing gardens of Ft. Tryon, with backdrops of The Cloisters and the George Washington Bridge.

next week is:
PARK DANCES / DOWN
Battery Park Bosque Gardens
2PM, 3PM & 4PM
Site Specific performances winding through the imagination and gardens of Battery Park


PARK DANCES offers a beautiful and fun uptown experience for the whole family.

The event is FREE and is part of Kinesis Project's outreach programming, bringing dance to the parks of NYC.

www.kinesisproject.com

Kinesis Project is a NYC based dance company...

Our work has been called
"...comically acrobatic, gracefully classical ... visually arresting..." -NYTimes

"...a Marx Brothers' routine with soul."
-Audience member

"...captivating, comical and very charming."
-CriticalDance.com

Mission:
Kinesis Project is a physical, character driven, community inspired, collaborative dance organization.

Kinesis Project is a dance organization that produces dance concerts, facillitates educational programs and creates site specific performances with diverse communities. Kinesis Project produces work designed to make the soul dance and the feet fly. We are pushing the boundaries of what changes space, and people, 
by placing movement and stillness in unusual and inspiring places.

As a producing organization, Kinesis Project is proud to be a founding partner with 
Manhattan Theatre Source for their Annual Women's Work Festival, EstroGenius. 
Kinesis Project's involvement has created Women in Motion, the dance evenings of EstroGenius. Contact us with any questions at 212-942-1314


Melissa Riker is a freelance modern dancer, aerialist, choreographer and the Director of Kinesis Project dance theatre.  

Dancing and making dances in New York City since 1996, Ms. Riker has performed on stages of all sizes and celebrity nationally and internationally. She has danced in companies that excel in modern dance, partnering, martial arts, circus, moving meditation and Sufi-inspired spinning. Her movement has been called “athletic” and “serpentine,” her performances on rigging and on building roofs caused a reviewer to exclaim, “If there is a Spidergirl, it is Melissa Riker”.The New York Times said her choreography is “sometimes comically acrobatic, sometimes gracefully classical – Visually arresting” and an audience member wrote that the work is “a Marx-brothers routine with soul”.
Ms. Riker has created dances for film, theatre, operas and circus. Her text work has been commissioned and produced by multiple organizations and residencies. 

Ms. Riker has been a founder of multiple collaborative arts organizations including the Movement Salon on 3rd Avenue and 17th St in NYC and Manhattan Theatre Source in the West Village of NYC. Both organizations are now over 10 years old and going strong.

She has been a resident of the Dance Omi International Art Center as one of three American choreographers, Earthdance, a Ford Foundation Fellow, received an artistic merit award from the Foundation for Greater Atlanta in 2007, 08, and 09 and a Recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation in 2006 and 2008.

Riker’s blog tracking her choreographic process, A Choreographer’s Blog, was named one of the 2010 top 50 blogs to be read by dance students, and was #1 in the “Written by Choreographers” Category.

Kinesis Project had its 2010 Season at Judson Memorial Church with the world premiere of Pressing Empty, an evening length performance that was met with acclaim from audiences and reviewers alike.

She was an Artist-in-Residence with West Genesee High School’s Fine Arts Department during Spring 2010 teaching dance to the wide range of students in the West Genesee Dance Department.



Kinesis Project is a dance organization that produces dance concerts, facillitates educational programs and creates site specific performances with diverse communities.
Kinesis Project produces work designed to make the soul dance and the feet fly.
We are pushing the boundaries of what changes space, and people, 
by placing movement and stillness in unusual and inspiring places.

As a producing organization, Kinesis Project is proud to be a founding partner with 
Manhattan Theatre Source for their Annual Women's Work Festival, EstroGenius. 
Kinesis Project's involvement has created Women in Motion, the dance evenings of EstroGenius. For more information click here

Member Spotlight: Lisa Lebofsky‏

The Accretion of Events
group show
August 20 through September 30, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, August 20th 6-9pm

Volume Black (new location)
89 Washington Street
New York, NY 10006

click here for more information

click here to watch interview with Volume Black

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Girls Don't Count

group show 

July 2nd through August 27th, 2010
 
Shadow's Space
1248 North Front St
Philadelphia, PA

click here for more information