Friday, April 17, 2009

Support ab: from / to

You can sponsor the project with a tax deductible donation through our fiscal sponsorship with the Allied Arts Foundation.

Please make your check payable to Allied Arts Foundation and indicate Jürg Koch ab: from/to on the note line.
Please mail your donation to:
Allied Arts Foundation
1620 43rd Ave. E. #16A
Seattle, WA 98112

Jürg Koch and the entire artistic team are grateful for your interest and support

Monday, April 6, 2009

ab: from / to

Special Thanks

ab: from / to is grateful for receiving sponsorship, support and in kind donations from: Allied Arts Foundation, UW Dance Program, Peter Bracilano, Alex Danilchick, Brown University Music Department, On the Boards, and Beth Graczyk

Trio Rehearsals









Video stills with Alia Swersky, Joseph Anderson, Jürg Koch

Video Shoot: Group









































Performers: Beth Graczyk, Kristin Hapke, Gregg Harbaugh, Aiko Kinoshita, Kathryn Padberg, Aaron Schwartzman, Matt Smith

Video Shoot: Pairs






Performers: Beth Graczyk, Aiko Kinoshita, Danny Herter, Jürg Koch


Thursday, April 2, 2009

Contributors

Choreographer/Dancer
Jürg Koch (MA LCDS London, Assistant Professor, Dance Program, UW Seattle) Working with CandoCo integrating disabled and non-disabled performers and dancing in contemporary repertory including works by Bill T Jones, Javier de Frutos and Fin Walker informs Jürg's artistic and pedagogic outlook. His choreography spans from solo repertoire (Printer's Tray) to community ensembles (the workshop) and collaborations with new media artists (David Prior, Iole Alessandrini, Lyn Goeringer).

Video/Sound/New Media
Lyn Goeringer. With a background in  music composition, experimental film and electronics, Lyn Goeringer creates intermedia works that incorporate video, sound, and music. Her current works focus on incorporating everyday events and moments into the works, from audio recordings of banal home life to site-specific intervention performance art. She has performed and presented works in Paris, New York, Seattle, Colorado, and Rhode Island. Her artistic residencies include Jack Straw New Media Gallery (2005), University Duisberg-Essen (June 2008) and Steim in Amsterdam (July 2008). She holds an MFA from Bard College (2005)

Dancers
Joseph Anderson was born in San Diego, California. He trained at the Cornish College of the Arts and in New York at the American Ballet Theater School for Classical Ballet under the direction of Mikhail Baryshnikov. In 1993 he joined Les Grand Ballets Canadiens de Montréal where he dancers principle roles in works by Nacho Duato. Jirí Kilyán, and Ohad Naharin and originated roles in works by James Kudelka and Éduard Lock. He was a member of Pacific Northwest Ballet from 1997-1998.

Alia Swersky is a movement artist, improviser, performer and teacher. Living in Seattle for the last twelve years, she had created her own work as well as collaborated with and performed in the works of many local artists, including LeGendre Performance Group and The Maureen Whiting Co. Alia ran the dance program at University Prep for six years, is currently adjunct faculty at Cornish College of the Arts, teaches yoga, and is a co-artistic director with Dance Arts Group.

Lighting Design
Lara Wilder recently received her MFA from the UW's School of Drama in Design. Previously to coming back to Seattle, she was a Guest Lecturer at Ohio State University in The School of Dance. Her production and design credits include; The Wooster Group, Available Light Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Joyce, MOMIX, and locally, 33 Fainting Spells, UMO Ensemble and Bumbershoot. Current projects include, teaching at the UW, site specific projects and working on her teaching certification in The Alexander Technique.

Video Performers
Beth Graczyk, Kristin Hapke, Gregg Harbaugh, Danny Herter, Aiko Kinoshita, Kathryn Padberg, Aaron Schwartzman and Matt Smith
 

Saturday, March 28, 2009

About the Project

ab: from/to is the second collaborative work by Jürg Koch (choreographer/dance) and Lyn Goeringer (experimental composer/multi-media artist). In this work, they use visceral solo and partner movement in an immersive video and electro-acoustic landscape. Three dancers inhabit a performance-installation environment. The combined imagery initiates a relationship connecting the kinetic-abstract with the human-narrative— the intersection of conflict, desire, attraction and sexuality.

Monday, March 23, 2009