Dixon Place in partnership with Dance New Amsterdam and WaxFactory presentsX-YU FESTIVAL
Wednesday - Saturday, May 26, 27, 28, 29 Suggested donation: $15 Dixon Place is proud to partner with Dance New Amsterdam and WaxFactory on the first-ever festival of new dance from the former Yugoslav countries. The X-YU festival will present the U.S. premieres of innovative dance by three genre-bending choreographers:
Maja Delak* & Luka Prinčič (Slovenia)WAYS OF LOVE
May 26, 7pm | May 28, 7pm | May 29, 5pm American premiere | Premiered: 2009 | 65 minutes Immersed in a risqué exploration of love, choreographer Maja Delak and sound artist Luka Prinčič weave their distinct backgrounds and experiences into one. Placing violence and desire on a crash course, they intertwine elements of music, sound, photography, visuals, text, and performance. As they explore ways of resolving their intensely personal and transformative encounter, they traverse pleasure, lust, perversion, pain…and laughter. * winner, 2010 Prešeren Fund Award for the highest achievement in the arts in Slovenia Production: Emanat (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Co-production: Delavski dom Trbovlje in collaboration with: KUD France Prešeren
photo: Nada Zgank Click here for a video trailer.
For more information on the artists, visit these sites on the web:
http://www.emanat.si/
http://deviator.si/
http://wndv.si/
Matija Ferlin* (Croatia)sad sam / almost 6 /. May 26, 9pm | May 27, 7pm | May 29, 7pm American premiere | Premiered: 2009 | 60 minutes With this new solo work, dancer/choreographer Matija Ferlin continues the SaD SaM (“Now I am”) series that started in January 2004 in Amsterdam. In sad sam / almost 6 /, Ferlin investigates beauty and terror of childhood through fragmented narration, with a desire to take body/mind/presence/absence over the edge. In confronting his memories and early childhood amnesia, he cretes a tender and poetic piece of work. Production: Emanat (Ljubljana, Slovenia) + Ferlin (Pula, Croatia)
Co-production: Chez Bushwick (New York, USA) + Bunker Productions (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
* Young Choreographer To Watch, 2008, Ballet Tanz International Click here for a video trailer.
For more information on the artist, visit these sites on the web:
http://www.emanat.si
http://www.myspace.com/mferlin
Dalija Aćin (Serbia) HANDLE WITH GREAT CARE. May 27, 9pm | May 28, 9pm | May 29, 9pm American premiere | Premiered: 2007 | 50 minutes Handle with Great Care is an unusual, suggestive and imaginative exploration of the phenomenon of memories: those images, objects and figures, which are fading away in the constant flux of reality. Reducing the elements of drama to a minimum, Dalija Aćin makes use of our brain’s ability to fabricate consistent, complete pictures from abstract fragments of perception. Part visual installation, part performance art, Handle with Great Care presents a subtle, evocative interplay between slow movements, visuals and sound. Co-production: Station Service for contemporary dance + Belgrade Drama Theatre (Belgrade, Serbia) * winner, 2008 Prix Jardin d' Europe award, ImPulsTanz festival (Vienna, Austria) Click here to see a video trailer.
For more information on the artist, visit these sites on the web:
http://dalijaacin.net/
http://www.dancestation.org/ All performances take place at Dixon Place in rotating repertory; or see all three pieces on Saturday, May 29! DNA (280 Broadway, Entrance on Chambers St) will also be hosting classes by Matija, Maja and Dalija in the Modern Guest Artist Series (Maja and Dalija will teach the week of the festival; Matija will teach the first week of June). Don’t miss this groundbreaking cultural exchange, supported, in part, by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
DP theatre events are made possible, in part, with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; & generous private funds from ART/NY's Fund for Small Theatres; Altria, Inc; Edith C. Blum Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; Dramatist Guild Fund; Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts; Greenwall Foundation; Jerome Foundation; Jerome Robbins Foundation; Katherine Dalglish Foundation; Low Wood Fund; Lucille Lortel Foundation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Mertz Gilmore Foundation; & Peg Santvoord Foundation.
