Claire Elizabeth Barratt – inter-disciplinary artist – Curriculum Vitae
Residencies,
Tours, Festivals, Fairs, Conferences
2018
January:
“Fe” MSMI (presented by CVLA) for Butoh in Birmingham at the Asian Heritage Festival – Birmingham
Museum of Art, Birmingham AL
(concept,
choreography, direction, installation set design, costume, make-up, performance
– movement, sound) With ‘U’u – performance - sound
(percussion)
Show director – Deborah Maudlin/Bearing Light
Butoh. Event producer - BMA
2017
November:
“Light & Shadow Tour”
(presented by CVLA) – USA South East / South West
(performance
artist collaborating with regional artists on the theme of light and shadow)
Tour Producer – CE Barratt, CVLA
Frequency Arts, Chattanooga TN
(props,
costume, performance – movement)
With audio-visual duo Tape Baby / Tape Canvas.
Producer – Chocolate ChooChoo
Bonfire Night – The Mudlark Public
Theatre, New Orleans LA
(concept,
direction, set design, props, costume, performance – movement, sound)
Music: Death
Posture - Rob Cambre, Donald Miller, Chris Robert. Video - Kook Teflon. Movement
- Cypress Atlas, Emmalee Sutton. Producer – CE Barratt, CVLA with Rob Cambre
Archaeology
of the Frivolous – Artist Residency, Marfa TX
“The Rhythm of Light & Shadow” series
of guided actions (concept, text,
installation, direction, facilitator) including: “Late Afternoon Long Shadows”
– interactive shadow installation, and “High Noon Pulsations” –
environmental meditations.
Residency Directors – Andrea Spaziani, Allen
Ferguson
Interference
Series – The Hive, Flagstaff AZ
(concept,
direction, set design, props, costume, performance – movement)
With
Rob Wallace – sound (percussion +)
Curator, producer – Interference Series.
Plus artist talk on Sound of Movement project –
Honors School, Northern Arizona University – Flagstaff AZ
Curator and producer – Interference Series with Rob
Wallace and NAU.
September:
X
Fest UK – cross-disciplinary free improvisation festival
– YHA Edale UK
(performance
– movement)
Collaborators include: Jack Wright, Anton Hunter,
Adrian Northover, Sue Lynch, Michael F Dailey (sound), Jeff Lipsky (painting).
Curators and producers – Walter Wright and Y Sok Schofield
July:
“Amalgamata Sonata” solo
performance piece (presented by CVLA) for AfterMAF
Festival – Art Rat Studios, Roanoke VA
(concept,
props, costume, performance) Curator
and Producer – AfterMAF collective
March:
“DJ Robo Rob & Cilla Vee the DaDa GoGo Dancer”
performance duo (presented by CVLA) for X
Fest 2017 – 10th annual cross-disciplinary free improvisation
festival - Holyoke City Hall, Holyoke MA
(concept,
props, costume, make-up, performance – movement)
With Rob Kopi – vinyl DJ. Curators and producers
– Walter Wright, Stephanie Lak, Dei Xhrist, Jenifer Gelineau
2016
October:
PFFF!
(Philadelphia Free Form Festival) cross-disciplinary
improvisation festival – The Ice Box, Philadelphia PA (performance art, action paint, props, costume)
Collaborators include: Karen Nelson, Liz
Meredith, Bbob Drake, Janna Meiring, Alexander D’Agostino, Jim Strong, Luke
Stewart, Mauri Walton, Kaia Gilje. Curator and Producer – ISOP (Impermanent
Society of Philadelphia)
September:
“SPLAT!” solo action paint
performance installation (presented by CVLA) for Reviewing Black Mountain College annual conference – UNC Asheville
(concept,
choreography, set design, props, costume, performance – movement, action paint)
Producers – Brian Butler, Alice Sebrell, UNCA, BMCM+AC.
April:
“RAW (Material) – Earth Day”
collaborative durational inter-disciplinary performance installation (presented
by CVLA) for Interlude festival –
Henco Gallery, Asheville NC.
(concept,
direction, installation set design, props, costume, make-up, performance –
movement, sound, word)
Performers include: Julie Becton-Gillum, Elisa
Faires, Randi Janelle, John Brinker, Rachel Schlafer-Parton, Jim Julien,
Jocelyn Reese, Liz Lang, Richard Brewster, Diana Brewster, Chandra Shukla,
Chloe Harnett-Hargrove.
Curators and producers – BMCM+AC with MAP
February:
X
Fest – 9th annual cross-disciplinary free
improvisation festival – Holyoke City Hall, Holyoke MA.
(performance
– movement)
Collaborators include: Audrey Chen, Id m
Theftable, Forbes Graham, Katherine Liberovskaya.
Curators and producers – Walter Wright, Stephanie
Lak, Dei Xhrist, Jenifer Gelineau
February:
“RAW (Material)” project journal.
Artist residency at Chance House / John Cage Memorial Park – Chance, Deal
Island MD.
(project
research, development and thesis) Curators
– David and Tara Gladden.
2015
July:
Untitled remote Skype broadcast – performance
piece (presented by CVLA) for AfterMAF
festival. Broadcast from wheat field in Nottinghamshire UK – received at
Art Rat Studios, Roanoke VA.
(concept,
direction, props, costume, performance – movement)
Simon Jamie – camera, technician. Owen and Isla
Jamie (children) – play.
Curator and Producer – AfterMAF collective
February:
Artist residency at Chance House / John Cage
Memorial Park – Chance, Deal Island MD.
Curators – David and Tara Gladden.
2014
August:
“Opening Invocation” solo
performance (presented by CVLA) for the 11th annual Frantasia Festival of Out music and Arts
– Sound Downtown, Livermore Falls ME.
(concept,
props, costume, performance – voice)
Curator and Producer – Fran Szostek
March:
“It’s a Sign!” solo MSMI (presented
by CVLA) for the Marginal Arts Festival
– Akademgorod gallery, Roanoke VA.
(concept,
installation set design, costume, make-up, performance – movement)
Curators and Producers – MAF collective
March:
Free improvisation collaboration for the Marginal Arts Festival – RAW gallery,
Roanoke VA.
(performance
– movement) With ROTTY WHAT – Jack Wright, Andrew
Drury – sound, John M Bennett – word. Curators and Producers – MAF collective
March:
“The Truth of the Moment”
performance workshop (presented by CVLA) for City Modern Ensemble and the Marginal Arts Festival – Roanoke Ballet
Theatre, Roanoke VA.
CME Director – Liza Deck
February:
X
Fest – 7th annual cross-disciplinary free
improvisation festival – Gateway City Arts, Holyoke MA.
(props,
costume, make-up, performance – movement)
Collaborators include: Andrea Pensado, Katherine
Libersovskaya, Al Margolis, Joe Burgio, Michael F Dailey, Flandrew Fleisenberg.
Curator – Walter Wright, Producers – Walter Wright and Jenifer Gelineau
2013
June:
“FLUX” sound sculpture and performance
installation (presented by CVLA) for the New
Dischord Festival of Intermedia
– Folk School of Chattanooga, Chattanooga TN
(concept,
direction, installation, set design, performance – sound, movement)
Performers: CE Barratt, David Linton, Elisa
Faires, Chandra Shukla, Kimathi Moore, Tim Hinck.
Festival Curator and Producer – Tim Hinck.
April:
“FLUX” sound sculpture and
performance installation (presented by CVLA) for the Asheville Butoh Festival
– BeBe Theater, Asheville NC
(concept,
direction, installation, set design, performance – sound, movement)
Performers: CE Barratt, David Linton, Richard
Brewster, Elisa Faires, Chandra Shukla, Kimathi Moore, Emily Monteith, Dash
Lewis, Rae Whitlock. Festival Producer – Julie Becton Gillum.
February:
X-Fest 6th
annual experimental arts festival of improvised collaborations -119 Gallery, Lowell MA
(movement,
sound, props, costume)
Collaborators
include: Emillie Mouchous, Joe Burgio, Evan Lipson, Greg Kowalski.
Curator and Producer
– Walter Wright.
2012
June:
“Monochromatic Monologues”
(Blue,
Black, Red, Gold) a series of solo movement installations (presented by
CVLA) for the Asheville Butoh Festival –
BeBe Theater, Asheville NC
(movement,
concept, props, costume, make-up) Festival
Curator and Producer – Julie Becton Gillum.
February:
X-Fest 5th annual experimental arts festival of improvised
collaborations -119 Gallery,
Lowell MA
(movement,
sound, props, costume) Collaborators include: Id m Theftable, Chris Welcome, David Grollman.
Curator and Producer – Walter Wright.
2011
November – December:
Residency at The Clocktower - Lower Manhattan NYC
Project development for “The Cortical Degausser” Audio/Visual installation
plus “Time
On its Side” object installation.
(assistant
to artist-in-residence David Linton) Curator
– David Weinstein.
June:
“Dome Poems” multi-media piece by Lee Ann Brown - keynote performance for To Open Eyes, Black Mountain College
conference – Sussex University, Brighton UK
(movement,
choreography, direction, set design)
Paul Khimasia Morgan – live soundscape. Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown –
video. Lee Ann Brown – poetry. Conference Producers – Daniel Kane, Paul Betts.
June:
“Black
Mountain College – NOW”
presentation for To
Open Eyes, Black Mountain College conference – Sussex University,
Brighton UK
(multi-media
informational presentation on current events surrounding BMC in Asheville NC)
Conference Producers – Daniel
Kane, Paul Betts.
April - May:
Artist-in-Residence
(presented by CVLA) at FBI (French
Broad Institute) - Marshall NC
Project development for “May Day Muses”
cross-disciplinary collaboration performance piece.
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction)
Collaborators: Steve Davidowsky – music
(multi-instrumental). Jeff Davis – poetry.
FBI Directors – Tony Torn, Lee Ann Brown.
March:
X-Fest 4th
annual experimental arts festival of improvised collaborations -119 Gallery, Lowell MA
(movement,
sound, props, costume) Collaborators include: Andrea Pensado, Dave Ross, Lou Cohen, Dr T,
Curator and Producer – Walter Wright.
2010
December:
Night
of the Wierds experimental music and noise festival – The
Laboratory, Gainesville FL
(movement,
props, costume) With
Jill Burton – voice. Travis Johnson – balloons. Producer – Herb Adikt.
October:
“Titled” SOM performance piece
(presented by CVLA) for opening reception of Reviewing Black Mountain College conference – Black Mountain
College Tribute Wall, Asheville NC
(choreography,
co-concept, performance - dance)
Shane Perlowin (Parish) – concept collaborator,
music composition, guitar, FX.
Producers – Brian Butler, Alice Sebrell, UNCA, BMCM+AC.
September:
“Ghost Dancer” cross-disciplinary
collaborative performance piece for High
Zero Festival – 2640, Baltimore MD
(movement,
choreography, direction, set design, props, costume)
Susan Alcorn – concept, pedal steel guitar,
percussion. Producer – Red Room Collective and Red Emma’s.
August:
Artist-In-Residence at The Improvisor Festival - Birmingham AL
30-year anniversary for festival of improvised
music and dance.
Birmingham main festival venues - WorkPlay,
Children’s Dance Foundation, BottleTree Music Café, The Listening Room at
Pepper Place.
Satellite tour to Barking Legs Theater -
Chattanooga TN. Eye Drum - Atlanta GA. Cine - Athens GA.
“Odd Places” week - performances at
Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham Botanical Gardens, Moundville Indian mounds - Tuscaloosa.
(movement,
cello, voice, props, costume, Creator of Odd Places week)
Collaborations with Gino Robair, Chris Cochrane,
Davey Williams, Andrea Centazzo, Andrew DeWar, LaDonna Smith, Jill Burton,
Susan Hefner, David Appel, Juanita Suarez, Ann Law, Killick and others.
Curator and Producer – LaDonna Smith.
February:
X-Fest 3rd
annual experimental arts festival of improvised collaborations -119 Gallery, Lowell MA
(movement,
sound, props, costume) Collaborators include: Katt Hernandez, Audrey Chen, Vic Rawlings, and
site-specific bathroom performance with Crank Sturgeon. Curator and Producer –
Walter Wright.
2009
October:
“Attack Of The Killer Stripy Tubes”
solo performance and installation (presented by CVLA) for Reviewing Black
Mountain College international conference – BMCM+AC and UNCA, Asheville NC
(movement,
choreography, concept, installation, set design, props, costume)
Keynote Speaker –
Dorothea Rockburne. Producers – Brian Butler, Alice Sebrell,
UNCA, BMCM+AC.
August – September:
“Life Is Art Is Life is ...”
artist residency at 119 Gallery, Lowell MA
Project
development and exhibition for multi-disciplinary
environmental installation plus performance series in collaboration with
Sculptor Patrick Pierce.
(performance,
movement, choreography, sound, cello, voice, text, co-concept, installation,
set design, video, soundscape, props, costume, make-up)
Patrick Pierce –
performance, concept collaboration, sculpture, installation, poetry,
letter-print.
Performance series
with regional New England guest artists. (guest artist info available on
request)
Curators and
Producers – Walter Wright and Mary Ann Kearns.
February:
X-Fest 2nd annual experimental arts festival of improvised
collaborations -119 Gallery,
Lowell MA
(movement,
sound, props, costume).
Curator and Producer – Walter Wright.
February:
“The Truth Of The Moment” inter-disciplinary performance workshop
(presented by CVLA) for X-Fest – 119
Gallery, Lowell MA
(concept,
teacher, facilitator) Festival
Producer – Walter Wright
January:
“Cilla Vee’s Water Music” site-specific
performance installation – bathroom (presented by CVLA) for the Asheville Fringe Festival – BeBe
Theatre, Asheville NC
(concept,
costume, make-up, performance – cello and voice)
Curators and Producers
– Jim Julien, Jocelyn Reese, AFF.
January:
“Sallimone” video
screening debut (presented by CVLA and WU Media) for the Asheville Fringe
Festival - BeBe Theatre, Asheville NC
(For video - movement,
choreography, concept, visual design, costume, make-up)
Kimathi Moore –
sound. Charles Elmer – camera. Directors and Editors – CE Barratt, K Moore, C
Elmer.
Producers – CVLA and
Wu Media. (For Festival) Curators and Producers – Jim Julien, Jocelyn Reese,
AFF.
2008
October:
“Pur-i-te” solo MSMI for
sculpture by Jim Gallucci. (presented by CVLA) for RiverSculpture Festival
– Reynolds Mountain,
Asheville NC
(movement,
choreography, voice, concept, costume, make-up)
Curators and
Producers – Robert and Arlene Winkler.
September:
“Modus Operandi”
YOU! an audience interactive performance project (presented by CVLA) for The
Spirit of Black Mountain College 75th anniversary conference –
Lenoir-Rhyne University, Hickory NC
(movement,
concept, direction, props)
Elisa Faires – sound,
performance. Greg Congleton – actor / MC. Curator and Producer - Rand Brandes.
July:
“Marigold & Butterfly”
movement installation (presented by CVLA) for HerbFest - The Herb
Garden, Almonte ON CAN
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costume, make-up)
Dancers: CE Barratt –
Marigold, Madeleine Jullian - Butterfly. Producer – The Herb Garden.
July:
“Motion Sculpture: Movement Installation As Divine
Meditation” – workshop (presented by CVLA) for International Sacred Dance Guild Festival,
Connecticut College, New London CT
(concept,
teacher, facilitator) Producer –
Wendy Morrell
July:
“Marking Movement” cross-disciplinary performance
collaboration for opening reception of Lara Hanson art exhibition at the American
Dance Festival - Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University, Durham
NC
(choreography,
performance – movement, voice)
Kelley Colbert –
voice, Lara Hanson – action-ink-drawing. Director – Lara Hanson. Producer – LJB Gallery with ADF
February:
X-Fest 1st
annual experimental arts festival of improvised collaborations -119 Gallery, Lowell MA
(movement,
sound, props, costume) Curator and Producer – Walter Wright.
January:
“Dot, Doris & Ethel”
audience inter-active characters (presented by CVLA) for Asheville Fringe
Festival - various locations Asheville NC
(performance,
concept, direction, props, costume, make-up)
Performers: CE
Barratt, Elisa Faires, Liz Lang, Tim Coholston, Tonia Gassman, Julie Becton
Gilum.
Curator and Producer
– Jim Julien, Jocelyn Reese, AFF.
January:
“Modus Operandi”
YOU! an audience interactive performance project (presented by CVLA) for A Night Out With Bob & John
at the Asheville Fringe Festival -
BMCM+AC, Asheville NC
(movement,
concept, direction, props)
Elisa Faires – sound,
performance. Greg Congleton – actor / MC.
Producer – BMCM+AC
with the Asheville Fringe Festival.
Plus “Avant
Garde Groundhog” workshop for in-the-moment composition for music and
dance – Lipinksy Auditorium, UNCA, Asheville NC. Producer – Dr Wayne Kirby
Sponsored by a grant
from Meet The Composer – Creative
Connections
2007
October:
“Wind In Bamboo”
site-specific performance installation for environmental sculpture by Larry
King (presented by CVLA) for RiverSculpture Festival – French
Broad River Park, Asheville NC
(movement
choreography, sound, concept, direction, costume, make-up)
Elisa Faires – sound,
movement. Curators and Producers – Robert and Arlene Winkler.
September:
“Tara – Goddess Of Compassion”
solo MSMI for sculpture by Ralph Berger (presented by CVLA) for RiverSculpture Festival - French
Broad River Park, Asheville NC
(movement,
choreography, concept, costume, make-up)
Curators and
Producers – Robert and Arlene Winkler.
August:
“Egg Sucking Dogs Trio” inter-disciplinary
performance collaboration Tour – North
East USA
(movement,
voice, props/objects, costume)
With Joe Burgio – movement,
voice, props/objects. Walter Wright – electronic sound, video. Guest - Katt
Hernandez – violin.
Venues - 119 Gallery,
Lowell MA. Redtail Collective, Boston MA. Galapagos, Brooklyn NY. Community
Education Center, Philadelphia PA. (Bowerbird production). Red Room, Baltimore
MD.
Tour producers – CE
Barratt, Joe Burgio, Walter Wright.
July:
“Marigold” solo MSMI
(presented by CVLA) for Herbfest - The Herb Garden, Almonte ON CAN
(movement,
choreography, concept, costume, make-up) Producer – The Herb Garden.
July:
“Silver” video
screening for American Body Arts Festival, Sherman NY
(For video - movement,
choreography, concept, costume, make-up)
Randy Simon – camera.
Video edit and post production – CE Barratt, CVLA.
Festival Curator for
projected images – Fred Hatt.
2006
November;
“Ramble” solo
inter-active durational performance installation (presented by CVLA) for Habitats
conference of Arts, Sciences and Environment (with a focus on the Gowanus
canal) – Brooklyn Lyceum NY
(movement,
text, concept, costume, make-up. plus performance for video by Luciana Sanz)
Keynote guest artist
– Pauline Oliveros. Curator and
Producer – Luciana Sanz and Eidolon Culture.
October:
“The Music & Dance of Ritual, Ceremony,
Trances & Seance” performance piece for Pasquale
Cangiano at the Festival of New Trumpet
Music - Tonic, Lower East Side
NYC
(movement,
choreography, costume)
Pasquale Cangiano –
concept, music composition. Dancers - CE Barratt, Irene Ziglina. Musicians -
Pasquale Cangiano – trumpet, Michael Evans – percussion. Producers – Roy
Campbell, Dave Douglas
August:
“CityScape” multi-media
performance piece and “Pioneer Spirit” solo performance piece
(presented by CVLA) for Dans/CE Kapital Festival – Arts Court Theatre,
Ottawa ON CAN
(For CityScape - movement, choreography, concept, direction, set design, video, costume)
With Lee Garbutt –
soundscape and djembe.
(For Pioneer Spirit - movement, choreography, text, concept, set design, props, costume)
Curator and Producer
– Saveeta Sharma, Upasana – Spirit of the Dance.
August:
“Making Dances” dance composition
workshop (presented by CVLA) for Dans/CE Kapital Festival -
Upasana – Spirit Of The Dance, Dance Educators, Ottawa ON
(concept,
teacher, facilitator) Producer –
Saveeta Sharma.
July:
“Princess Chloe”
solo MSMI (presented by CVLA) for Herbfest - The Herb Garden, Almonte ON
CAN
(movement,
choreography, concept, costume, make-up) Producer – The Herb Garden.
May:
“COLOURS” ensemble MSMI
(presented by CVLA) for Lower East Side
Festival of the Arts – Theater For The New City, Lower East Side NYC
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costume)
Dancers - refer to
MSMI dancer list. Producer – TNC.
January:
“Wind Blowing Through Reeds”
multi-media performance piece (presented by CVLA) for Vision Dance &
Music Collaborations festival – Clemente Soto Valez Center NYC
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, set design, video, costume)
With Daniel Carter –
sax, Marianne Giosa – small percussion and movement.
Curator – Patricia
Nicholson Parker, Producer – Arts For Art.
2005
November:
“Sound Of Movement” Tour (presented by CVLA) -
West Coast USA
(solo
movement artist to collaborate with musicians on the West Coast)
Tour Producer – CE
Barratt, CVLA
Gallery 1412, Seattle WA
With Tom Swafford –
violin, Bill Horist – guitar.
Food and Shelter Festival - Performance
Works Northwest, Portland OR
With Zachary Reno –
electronic soundscape
Plus “The
Sound of Movement” workshop (concept,
teacher, facilitator)
Curator and Producer
- Kathleen Keogh.
“Lionlike Tracheal Primp” - Berkeley Arts Center, Berkeley CA
With Tom Bickley – voice,
recorder, electronics, Karen Stackpole – percussion, Phillip Greenleif – flute,
sax. Producer – Tom Bickley.
21 Grand, Oakland CA
With Triple D: Damon Smith – bass, Aurora Josephson – voice, Jacob Lindsay –
clarinet. Producer – Damon Smith.
The Luggage Store, San
Francisco CA
With Phillip Greenleif –
sax. Curator - Rent Romus.
The Smell, Los Angeles
CA
With Joseph Hammer – tape
loops, GE Stinson – guitar, Kraig Grady – Anaphorian instruments, Sayo
Mitsuishi – live drawing projection.
Producer – Joseph Hammer.
Cafe Metropol, Los
Angeles CA
With Robert Jacobson –
guitar, Ches Smith – percussion, Joe Berardi – percussion, Andrew Pask – wind.
Producer – Robert
Jacobson.
Voltaire Arts
Collective, San Diego CA
With James Ilgenfritz –
bass, Chris Tonelli – voice. Producer – James Ilgenfritz.
September:
High Zero Festival
of experimental improvised music and arts – The Theater Project, Baltimore MD
(movement,
costume) Collaborators:
Peter Jaquemyn – bass, Birgit Ulher – trumpet, Bonnie Jones – electronics, Liz
Tonne – voice, John Berndt – sax. LaDonna Smith – violin, Paul Neidhardt –
percussion.
Curator and Producer
– The Red Room Collective.
September;
“The Sound Of Movement”
workshop (presented by CVLA) for High
Zero Festival - Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
(concept,
teacher, facilitator) Producer –
Rahne Alexander
August:
“Glow” solo performance
piece (presented by CVLA) for Dans/CE Kapital Festival - Arts Court
Theatre, Ottawa ON CAN
(movement,
choreography, concept, costume, make-up)
Curator and Producer
– Saveeta Sharma, Upasana – Spirit Of The Dance.
August:
“The Sound Of Movement”
movement workshop for Dans/CE Kapital
Festival - Upasana – Spirit Of The Dance, Dance Educators, Ottawa ON
(concept,
teacher, facilitator) Producer –
Saveeta Sharma
August:
Motion Sculpture Movement Installation Festival
(presented by CVLA) - Chashama on East 42nd Street, Midtown NYC
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, installation, set design, props, costume,
make-up)
1 “Between MA
& a Soft Space” Music: David Beardsley – microtonal soundscape.
Visual art: Lara Hanson - ink gesture drawing.
2 “Gold Leaf”
Music: Joyful Sonic Wash (Junichi and Megumi Matsuzaki, Don Amit Ram
Claudius)
3 “Carmen Miranda Tropical Installation”
Music: Yukijurushi bossa nova band (Eiji Obata, Tatsuya Nakatani, Todd
Nicholson). Visual art: Wanda Raimuni-Ortez – paintings and sidewalk chalk.
4 “Human Clay”
with performance sculptor Hisayasu Takashio. Music: Marianne Giosa – trumpet,
percussion. Judith Berkson – voice. Visual art: Hisayasu Takashio - sculpture.
5 “From The
Deep” Music: Daniel Carter – sax, flute. Marianne Giosa – trumpet,
percussion.
Curator and Producer
for MSMI Festival – CE Barratt, CVLA
Curators and Producers
for Chashama – Anita Durst and Rachel Fleit.
June:
“Sound Of Movement”
Residency (presented
by CVLA) - Paris France
(solo
movement artist collaborating with Paris-based musicians)
Studio sessions with
Frederic Blondy – piano. Pascal Marzan – guitar. Thierry Madiot – trombone.
Bois de Vincent - site-specific performance with Agnes Palier – voice.
Club 14 Paradise – performance with Jean Borde – bass, Pascal Battus – electronics,
objects.
Residency producer – CE
Barratt, CVLA
May:
“Elegant Venture Cocktail Installation”
ensemble MSMI (presented by CVLA) for Lower
East Side Festival of the Arts – Theater For The New City, Lower East Side
NYC
(movement
choreography, concept, costume) Dancers - refer to MSMI dancer list. Producer – TNC.
April:
“SPLAT!” action-paint
performance piece (presented by CVLA) for the TransModern Age Festival -
Baltimore MD
(movement,
choreography, action-paint, concept, direction, set design, costume, make-up)
Jonathon Morris –
live soundscape.
Plus - Site-specific
performance at Patterson Park. (movement)
with Audrey Chen – cello, Katt Hernanadez –
violin. Festival producer – TMAF.
2004
December:
“Broken Glass” Collaborative
Laboratory for the Washington DC International Improvisation Festival. Culminating performance at Dance Place –
Washington DC
Dancers: CE Barratt,
Daniel Burkholder, Sharon Mansur, Jennifer Stone. Musicians: Tom Bickley,
Jonathon Morris, Toshi Makahara, Alvin Hill. Actors: Sylvia Toone, Matthew
Gotlieb.
BG curator – Daniel
Burkholder. Festival producer – Maida Withers.
December:
“The Sound Of Movement” workshop (presented by
CVLA) for the Washington DC International Improvisation Festival -
George Washington University, Washington DC
(concept,
teacher, facilitator) Producers -
Daniel Burkholder, Maida Withers
December:
“Cabaret Noir”
ensemble MSMI (presented by CVLA) for Art Basel Miami – Design
District event, Miami FL (movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costume, make-up)
Dancers - CE Barratt,
Mark G Lamb, Meg Brooker, Yana Schnitzler. Producer – HausScape.
November:
“Sound Of Movement”
mini-tour (presented by CVLA)
- The Fifth Story, Baltimore MD. Highwire Gallery,
Philadelphia PA
(movement)
with Mary Halvorson –
guitar. Producer – CE Barratt, CVLA
October:
“Attack Of The Killer Stripy Tubes”
ensemble MSMI (presented by CVLA) for the Golden Ball Festival – Bronx
Zoo, NY
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costume)
Dancers - refer to
MSMI dancer list. Producer – Bronx Borough Council.
September:
“Butterflies & Flowers”
ensemble MSMI (presented by CVLA) for Fiesta
De Flores event - New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx NY
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costume, make-up)
Dancers - CE Barratt,
Meg Brooker, Pepper. Producer – NYBG.
July:
“Living Rock”
cross-disciplinary performance piece mini
tour - Red Room, Baltimore MD. Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia PA
(movement,
choreography, co-concept, set design, props, costume, make-up)
Tatsuya Nakatani –
concept collaborator, music composition, percussion.
Producers – CE
Barratt, Tatsuya Nakatani.
June:
Motion Sculpture Movement Installation Festival
(presented by CVLA) - Chashama on East 42nd Street, Midtown NYC
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, installation, set design, props, costume,
make-up)
1 “Elegant Venture Cocktail
Installation” Music: Loren Dempster – cello. Ellen Wolfe – opera.
2 “Between Ma & a Soft Space”
– Music: David Beardsley – microtonal soundscape. Visual art: Lara Hanson – ink
gesture drawing.
3 “Human Clay” with
performance sculptor Hisayasu Takashio. Music: Marianne Giosa – trumpet,
percussion. Visual art: Hisayasu Takashio - sculpture.
4 “Aliens” Music: Michael
Evans – Theremin. Visual art: Kim Fraczeck - glass.
5 “Carmen Miranda Tropical
Installation”. Music: Yukijurishi bossa nova band (Eiji Obata, Tatsuya
Nakatani, Todd Nicholson). Visual art: Sonomi Kobayashi. – paintings. Dancers -
refer to MSMI dancer list.
Curator and Producer
for MSMI Festival – CE Barratt, CVLA
Curators and Producers
for Chashama – Anita Durst and Rachel Fleit.
May:
“Fairies” ensemble MSMI
(presented by CVLA) for the Rites Of Spring Festival - Lower East Side Community
Gardens NYC
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costumes, make-up)
Dancers - refer to
MSMI dancer list. Producer – Earth Celebrations.
2003
November:
“Shimotsuki” (November Frost) solo MSMI – Galeria Galou at BPM and “Human
Clay” ensemble MSMI (presented by CVLA) for the Shi Mo Tsu Ki
Festival of cross-media collaborations – BPM Art Space, Williamsburg,
Brooklyn NY
(For Shimotsuki - movement, choreography, concept, installation, set design, costume,
make-up)
(For Human Clay - choreography, concept, direction, set design, costume, make-up)
With performance
sculptor Hisayasu Takashio. Dancers - refer to MSMI dancer list. Music: Sabine
Arnaud – voice, percussion.
Plus - Performance
improvisation with MP3s – (movement)
with Mike Pride – percussion.
Mary Halvorson – guitar. Trevor Dunne – bass. Curators and Producers – CE
Barratt, Tatsuya Nakatani, BPM.
August:
SOM performance piece (presented by CVLA) for the World
Turning Festival - Medicine
Show Theater, Midtown NYC
(movement) Music: Loren Dempster – cello. Mary Halvorson –
guitar. Producer – MST.
May:
“Garden Spirits”
ensemble MSMI (presented by CVLA) for Rites Of Spring Festival - Lower
East Side Community Gardens NYC
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costumes, make-up)
Dancers - refer to
MSMI dancer list. Producer – Earth Celebrations.
2002
October:
Debut MSMI performance (presented by CVLA) for DUMBO
Arts Under The Bridge Festival – Hillside Park, DUMBO, Brooklyn NY
(movement,
choreography, concept, direction, costume)
Dancers -
refer to MSMI dancer list. Music: Tatsuya Nakatani
- percussion
Curator and Producer
– DUMBO Arts Festival.
1992 – 2000
Circle Modern Dance
– dance company - Knoxville TN
Co-Founder, Co-Director
Activities:
producing, curating, directing, fund-raising, proposal-writing, promoting,
teaching, choreographing, collaborating, performing, touring for company with
generational and disability inclusiveness.
Directors – CE
Barratt, Mark G Lamb, Kimberly Matibag, Wendy Nash.
(Detailed account of
work with CMD available on request)
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