Lucie Baker Dance
If you happen to find yourself in Seattle July 21, 22 or 23 2011 at 8pm then you should check me out on stage with ARC Dance.
http://www.arcdance.org/2listing.php ARC DANCE COMPANY IN SUMMER DANCE AT THE CENTER July 21, 2011 - 8:00pm July 22, 2011 - 8:00pm July 23, 2011 - 8:00pm ARC's highly-anticipated annual Summer Dance at the Center for 2011 promises a variety of breakthrough performances featuring five distinct danceworks. Alex Ketley (The Foundry & San Francisco Ballet) and Penny Hutchinson (Mark Morris Dance Group) both return to ARC with world premiers. Also on the bill are Artistic Director Marie Chong's No Regrets, Betsy Cooper's (UW Dance Program Director) The Space Between, Kirk Midtskog's Between Earth & Sky, and Song of the Siren by Jason Ohlberg (Hubbard Street Dance Chicago). Please join us in the intimate setting of Seattle Center's Leo K Theatre, http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/177769 Tickets: $25 - $30 Adult $18 - $20 Student(18 & younger) Seniors(65+) All reserved seating. Bagley Wright/Leo Kreielsheimer Theatre 155 Mercer Street Seattle, WA 98109 May and June have flown by and were full of nice weather in New York surprisingly enough. Except for one ridiculous week of heavy rain which only subsided long enough for me to have a lovely birthday picnic on May 20th.
Skies were clear at the Highline Park in Chelsea, NYC on May 25th and 26th as I performed with the fantastic Erica Essner Performance Co-Op in an outdoor site specific show. It was a whole lot of fun and I even got a little tan. The first week of June I participated in the Tiffany Mills Summer Workshop and performed with the participants on June 4th at White Wave John Ryan Theater in DUMBO Brooklyn. A pizza party reception by the East river was an added bonus post show. It was a fun week. June 27th - July 3rd I had the great honor to perform for the first (hopefully not last) time at Jacob's Pillow with the indomitable Jane Comfort and Company. We premiered a new work entitled Beauty and remounted her Bessie award winning piece Underground River. It was magical to be performing with such inspiring people in such and inspiring place. You can read some of the reviews and photos of the show at these links: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/arts/dance/jane-comfort-and-company-at-jacobs-pillow.html http://blog.christopherduggan.com/2011/07/jacobs-pillow-dance-festival-week-two-with-carte-blanche-and-jane-comfort/ http://dancehunter.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/essay-jane-comfort-and-company-at-jacobs-pillow/ http://thephoenix.com/Boston/arts/123398-jane-comfort-and-sharon-eyal-at-jacobs-pillow/ So far it's been a grand summer and one thing I know for sure is that I love spending it dancing and I love spending it ourside. Two New Shows coming up in New York! First up:
Emily Pope-Blackman makes a duet for us and presents it at the New Steps Series at Chen Dance Center April 21st - 23rd 7:30pm 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor $12 General, $10 Students & Seniors Please call (212)349-0126 for more information or to RSVP. For more info check out: http://www.chendancecenter.org/index.php/about_us/latest_news/spring_2011_newsteps_april_21_23/ But wait there's more!!! Erica Essner Performance Co-Op presents The Soul Project at West Fest April 28th 9 pm April 30th 8 pm at the Cunningham Studios: 55 Bethune Street (at Washington Street) $20,$15 Student/Senior For more info check out: http://web.mac.com/flexicurve/Westfest/Cunningham_Shows.html http://web.mac.com/flexicurve/Westfest/WestFest_2011.html I hope to see you there! So! Since APAP a lot of things have happened. I traveled with Jane Comfort to Ballet Memphis to help set a new work on the company for a week in January. It was great fun! You can see some of our rehearsals here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChmSeSv5uRo February was full of auditions and rehearsals and serving coffee and writing grants and trying to stay warm with good friends. In March I traveled to Texas State University to perform with a group of Juilliard musicians lead by Wayne O'Quin. Yara Travieso choreographed a solo for me that involved video projection, a long piece of Lycra that was wrapped around me and attached to a boom and a talented violinist on stage fearing for his life and limbs. Everyone in Texas was extremely kind and engaging. It was a great trip. Later that month I performed with Erica Essner Performance Co-Op in Tarrytown, New York. It was part of a festival that was being held in an old Vaudeville theater that was celebrating it 125th birthday. I knew many dancers involved and we had a lovely day in Tarrytown. The performance was well attended and I enjoyed performing with Erica's group for the first time. Joy! I most recently got back from George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia where I was performing with Tamar Rogoff in Diagnosis of a Faun. It is a piece that is near and dear to my heart and I was grateful to have a chance to perform it again. The cast and crew are so loving and easy to work with. It was also nice to see daffodils and tulips and cherry trees blooming. Spring has sprung! (Finally. It is mid-April...) So the last half of a bitter winter has past with a flurry of activity that I hope carries on into the future. Stay tuned for more news soon! Come see me dance for free as part of the
American Performing Arts Presenters 2011 Conference with two fantastic shows Jane Comfort and Company January 8th, 10:30 - 10:45 January 10th, 11:45 - 12:00 New York City Center, Studio 4 130 West 56th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues Performing excerpts of Beauty and! Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects January 8th, 4pm Baryshnikov Arts Center 450 West 37th Street , between 9th and 10th Avenues Jerome Robbins Theater (3rd fl) Performing excerpts of Diagnosis of a Faun No need for reservations or tickets just come on in and find a seat and the scheduled start time. All showings are free to all. I hope to see you there! The fall of 2010 saw numerous performances. In September I participated in the Bessie Schoenberg Residency at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts as a dancer for Ximena Garnica and Yara Travieso. It was a wonderful place to create and enjoy life. Following that The Colors Project started it off in New York with shows Saturday and Sunday October 23rd and 24th. The following Tuesday I performed a revival of a duet called she runs a tight ship at the Rover in Soho. The premiere was at Juilliard in 2006 and the video is on the video page. I was lucky to have Daniel Morgan Shelley reprise his role in the piece. Later that week I toured with Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects to Middlebury College in Vermont and Georgian Court University in New Jersey to perform in Diagnosis of a Faun. I had never been to Vermont before and it was lovely in the fall. Later in November I performed a work in progress with Dion Mucciacito at the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn, New York. It was a great opportunity to get feed back on some choreographic ideas I am currently playing with. The week before Thanksgiving I had the opportunity to participate in the mob scene in Pavel Zustiak's Painted Bird/ Bastard at La MaMa ETC. It was fun to get to perform with close to 50 people on stage at once! Since Thanksgiving I have been rehearsing with Jane Comfort and Company and Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects and living the city life. Stay tuned for upcoming shows! Cheers and Happy Holidays! - Lucie Baker
Five new works of music and dance will be premiered by production group Multicultural Sonic Evolution (Muse) October 23rd and 24th at 8pm at Green Space in Queens. Choreography by Lucie Baker, Adam Barruch, Carlye Eckert and Harumi Terayama. Dancing by Lucie Baker, Carlye Eckert, Laura Mead and Carolyn Rossett.
Tickets may be reserved at musefriends.org or call (718) 728-1292 $15 in advance $20 at the door $10 for students and seniors Green Space 37-24 24th St 3rd Floor Long Island City, NY Click Here for more information and scroll to the bottom of the page Diagnosis of a Faun, hosted by Claire Danes Claire Danes introduces an inclusive dance/theater piece commissioned by VSA from Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, which draws inspiration from Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun and a dancer's first-hand experience with cerebral palsy.
Sunday April 11th 8pm
Green Space Blooms La Patria: A Dripping Eulogy by Yara Travieso 37-24 24th ST #301 (between 37th & 38th Ave.) L.I.C., Queens http://www.greenspacestudio.org/Postcard.htm A little taste: http://vimeo.com/9849250 CHRONOS PROJECT
April 22-24, 2010 @ 7:30pm A shared evening of choreographic works on a theme of Time between four emerging dance makers. Our individual experiences of times is undoubtedly unique to each and one. Does time have a beginning or birth? Does time stand still? Could we ever achieve the fantasy of going back in time? And in our hyper active experience of 21st century living we never seem to have enough time. Choreographers: Brian Gibbs Monique Meunier Nilas Martins Bennyroyce Royon The Performance Project @ University Settlement 184 Eldridge St (corner of Rivington) New York, NY 10002 Price $10.00 - $15.00 ALSO! a Fundraiser Party! for BENNYROYCE DANCE PRODUCTIONS * CHRONOS Project There will be an Open Bar, Appetizers, Guest Performances, a Raffle, a Sneak Peak at the new work by Bennyroyce and 5% of the donations go towards Doctors Without Borders. Tickets $35 March 10th 2010 * 7 - 11pm @ BRICK NYC 22 Warren St www.bennyroyce.com |
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