More videos from the festival

Spangberg Variations
Created and performed by Jake Wise, Johnny Butler, and Odeya Nini based on the Score by Tatyana Tenenbaum documenting Marten Spangberg's interpretation of Steve Paxton's "Goldberg Variations" at the Movement Research 2008 Fall Festival, entitled "Powered by Emotion"



humtellstandtoday
Performance by Lucinda Segar with others
Score by Kayoko Nakajima
Sound by Max Kotelchuk



Untitled
Performance by Run Shayo and Bradley Teal Ellis
Sound score by Bradley Teal Ellis from a lecture from Ted.com / Jill Bolte Talylor
Music by Clint Mansel and Recordings of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Video from Third Generation!

more to come...



Just say everything is ok – an introduction to fleur-de-lis
Conceived and performed by Jon Kinzel with Matthew Murphy
Score derived from Tatyana Tenenbaum’s schematic drawing in which several segments of a work made by DD Dorvillier/Human Future Dance Corps are represented by figurative sketches.

Performed at the Third Generation Festival, Aug 20th 2009
at The Tank, NYC thetanknyc.org

NOTE: Third Generation will start at 7:30pm, not 7:00pm.
Apologies for any confusion. See you there!

Third Generation Artist Bios

Third Generation Festival Night #1
Thursday, August 20th at 7:30pm with discussion to follow

Jon Kinzel
Hannah Harpole and Michele Torino Hower
Bradley Teal Ellis and Run Shayo
Lucinda Segar

Hannah Harpole was born in Oregon. She started moving as a runner and later begged her mother for dance lessons. At the University of New Mexico she double majored in Dance and Anthropology. While at University, she taught herself simple film and editing techniques, which she uses to investigate the use of media in conjunction with dance. Hannah also works teaching dance and yoga at Pacific High School in Downtown Brooklyn.

Originally from New Hampshire, Michele Torino Hower began modern dancing at Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA while studying psychology and theater. After a brief stint of dancing in Boston, she moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to earn an MFA in Dance. There she co-founded a collective of female dance artists, called PutAttention and danced with Bill Evans and Donna Jewell. Since moving to New York City she has danced with Hannah Harpole, in a collaboration called X-tra Bullets, and with Heather McCardle. Michele's collaborative work has been shown in Albuquerque, NM, Portland, OR and in NYC at Cunningham Studio, Movement Research's Open Studios and Triskeleon's WaxWorks. She also teaches dance and yoga to children in NYC public schools.
www.xtrabullets.blogspot.com

Bradley Teal Ellis & Run Shayo are improvisational dancers. Bradley has studied, practiced & performed contact improvisation for more than 10 years.
Bradley continues to explore movement even as you read this... Run has studied, practiced & performed modern dance for more than 10 years. Run continues to explore movement even as you read this...

Lucinda Segar is a dancer, choreographer and writer who recently relocated from Ohio to Brooklyn, NY. Segar has shown her work in New York at Open Performance through Movement Research, Bushwick Open Studios, The Tank, DUMBO Arts Festival and at Cabinet Magazine's Event Space. In Ohio she performed at Oberlin College, Kenyon College, Cleveland's Spaces Gallery, and Allen Memorial Art Museum. Segar choreographed and produced an evening length work, HOUSEHOLDS, in May 2008 for which she earned the Oberlin College Award for Excellence in Theater and Dance. Segar has performed with, Ensemble 46, The Cleveland Contemporary Dance Company, Boston Ballet II, and for choreographers, Chris Aiken, Eliot Feld, Holly Handman, Amii LeGendre, Diane McIntyre, Michael Medcalf, Nusha Martynuk, KT Niehoff, Mara Poliak, Tatyana Tenenbaum and Hannah Verrill. She is currently working on collaborative multimedia projects with dancers Tatyana Tenenbaum and Ethan Cowan.

Third Generation Festival Night #2
Friday, August 21st at 7:30pm with after party to follow

Yoshiko Chuma
Stochastic Ensemble
Jake Wise, Odeya Nini & Johnny Butler
Mat Heggem

Johnny Butler is a tenor, bari, alto, and soprano saxophonist, a multi-genre composer, and teacher. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, and has been a member of the New York music community since graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 2006 with a degree in Jazz Studies and Performance with an emphasis in classical composition, studying with Gary Bartz, Robin Eubanks, Billy Hart, and classical composers Randolph Coleman and Lewis Neilson. While in New York, Johnny continued his studies with Lennie Tristano disciple Connie Cruthers, Vijay Iyer, and Todd Reynolds. Johnny currently performs within a wide range of musical styles including jazz, classical, indie-rock, avant-rock, soul, R&B, fusion, and free improvisation and is particularly interested in electro-acoustic saxophone performance. Current projects include: Solo saxophone and laptop performances, Johnny's multi-faceted solo project Scurvy, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Ryan Snow's Pull, indie singer-songwriter Indra Raj, minimalist progressive Cuban-influenced rock group Afuche, Sonia's Party and the Everyone's Invited Band, and Astoria based fusion group Dak Dies. Additionally, Johnny has recently performed with Joe Lally of Fugazi, Scott Stein of the Ramblers, the Skeletons, Margaret (Rhodes) Butler, the Stumble Bums and donates his time and music to Musicians On Call, a not-for-profit organization that brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in health care facilities. www.johnnybutler.com

Yoshiko Chuma (artistic director & choreographer of The School of Hard Knocks, USA and of Daghdha Dance Company, Ireland) was born in Osaka, Japan and has lived in the United States since 1978. Chuma has created more than 45 full-length company works, commissions and site-specific events for venues across the world, constantly challenging the notion of performing for both audience and participant. Her work has been presented in New York in venues ranging from the Joyce Theater to the legendary annual Halloween Parade; and abroad in such locations as the former National Theater of Sarajevo, the perimeter of the Hong Kong harbor and at an ancient ruin in Macedonia. Yoshiko Chuma is the recipient of several fellowships and awards, including those from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Japan Foundation, Meet the Composer Choreographer/Composer Commission and Philip Morris New Works. She received a New York Dance & Performance Award ("Bessie") in 1984 and has led workshops and master classes throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Russia and the U.S. www.yoshikochuma.org

Members of the The Stochastic Ensemble are Charlie Mosey, Elise Knudson, Fabrice Covelli, Kayoko Nakajima, Loren Dempster, Margaret Paek, Melissa Guerrero, and Rafael Cohen. They are a diverse group, informed by many cultural environments and ethnic backgrounds, whose ages span more than twenty years. Their training includes many Improvisational techniques, post-modern and modern dance, performance art, site-specific installation, Susan Kline/Barbara Mahler technique, Alexander Technique, Ensemble Thinking, BMC, Laban Movement Analysis, cello and electronic music composition & improvisation, classical and Jazz music, yoga, pilates, gymnastics, hip-hop, sculpture, painting, drawing, Aikido, Capoeira, Kung Fu, massage, and physical therapy. Between them, they have degrees and/or careers in dance, music, education, philosophy, psychology, art therapy, sculpture and painting, accounting, and design. Their teachers include Simone Forti, Kirstie Simson, Deborah Hay, Nina Martin, Daniel Lepkoff, Christina Svane, KJ Holms, Bonnie Bainnbridge Cohen and Steve Paxton. As educators, we have independently taught for or with Movement Research, Lower Left, Manhattanville College, Garden City Waldorf School, and Nancy Stark Smith among others. Individually, some have worked with Koosil-Ja, Risa Jaroslow, Amanda Drozer, Lower Left, Milka Djordjevich, project LIMB, Airelise, Jody Oberfelder, Merce Cunningham Co., and as solo artists. In June '09 Stochastic Ensemble performed at Movement Research at the Judson Church. In December '08 we collaborated on Loren Dempster's "After Construction," an evening of music and movement at Issue Project Room in Brooklyn.

Mat Heggem, dance & media artist/educator/administrator, currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Seeking to connect his understanding of ballet with his experience in contemporary dance, Heggem bridges an experimental and visionary approach to classical technique, improvisation and partnering. Understanding beauty through the method of performance and engaging a creative, spiritual practice through the medium of his body is foundational in his life's work. Originally from the Pacific Northwest (Bellingham, WA), he relocated to the East Coast in 2003 and has since performed nationally. He began his training at Pacific Dance Company under the tutelage of Eliese Kerman studying theater performance, ballet and modern dance. To date, his knowledge within the field of dance has expanded to include contemporary ballet, improvisation, partnering techniques and various traditional and contemporary cultural forms. www.matheggem.com

Announcing Third Generation Performers

Third Generation Festival asked participants to consider an influential performance event and document its structure, events, or imagery through prose, drawing, audio, or video. The collection of documents will serve as scores for the following artists to create original work for Third Generation Festival. Through this process, Third Generation examines the ways in which our collective history is transformed and created over time.

We are pleased to announce that the following artists will be performing at Third Generation Festival...

Thursday, August 20th
7:00pm with discussion to follow
Michele Torino Hower & Hannah Harpole
Jon Kinzel
Lucinda Segar
Bradley Teal Ellis & Run Shayo

Friday, August 21st
7:00pm with after party to follow
Jake Wise, Johnny Butler & Odeya Nini
Yoshiko Chuma
The Stochastic Ensemble
Mat Heggem

photo: Bradley Teal Ellis

ALL DEADLINES EXTENDED TO JULY 1st!

Submit. Submit. Submit.

Love,
3rdGen Curators

Some further thoughts...

Dear reader,
This blog has only been up a few weeks, and already we are receiving many thoughtful responses and questions. Here are some things to keep in mind about our motives for creating Third Generation Festival:

1. The scores contained in this blog are only examples. We in no way intend to limit the medium and/or method by which information is contained and compiled. We are interested in examining the score as its own document, and point of view.

2. Third Generation Performers will be assigned a score to realize at the discretion of the festival Curators. The three of the creative sources (Choreographer of Original Work, Score Author, and Third Generation Performer) will operate independently of one another. The Festival will be an opportunity to bring all three together and engage in dialogue.

3. We created Third Generation to spark something new, different, and even (perhaps) controversial. We understand that by using Original Work as the inspiration for Third Generation Performances, we are touching on issues of intellectual property. We hope to make clear that the intention is not to "replicate" an original work, but to re-examine it through an experimental process. All due credit will be given for the ideas presented at Third Generation.

4. We look forward to shaping the festival around the submissions we receive. Thanks in advance for your adventurous spirits.