Miami On Stage 2011 / FUNDARTE

Miami On Stage 2011

Miami already has a homegrown, exciting arts scene that will only continue to flourish and grow through increased opportunities for professional artists to present their performance work.  FUNDarte’s Miami On Stage is a curated multi-disciplinary performing arts series featuring work by South Florida artists.  The series includes one-to-two commissions of new work per season. Now in its second year, Miami On Stage has literally taken its name to another level through an innovative collaboration with the Miami-Dade County Auditorium and its new On.Stage Black.Box and again at The Byron-Carlyle Theater in Miami Beach.  The series will present four to five performances, featuring work from South Florida musicians, actors, playwrights, dancers, poets, filmmakers and visual artists. It will also include a number of complementary events, such as panel discussions, open rehearsals and post-show talk-backs. Other upcoming events will be announced shortly.

The Miami On Stage series will feature the following four performances at the new On.Stage Black.Box Theater at Miami-Dade County Auditorium:

March 18, 2011 - Latin Jazz Night Jam with Yorgis Goiricelaya, Hilario Bell and other musicians will present an “unplugged” concert. Goiricelaya and Bell both recently independently produced new albums.

April 22, 2011 - Jesus Hidalgo and The Pachamama Project will present Sistema Dos (System Two), a project that integrates a consciousness of the environment with music in a multi-media project.

May 6, 2011 - La noche de los asesinos directed by choreographer Alexey Taran is a physical theater performance piece and video installation based on the play of the Cuban playwright José Triana.

June 24, 2011 - If you’re going to pull a knife, USAlo is a theatrical performance collaboration between Carlos Caballero and Elizabeth Doud that employs the texts of Samuel Beckett to talk about the petroleum industry, unemployment and mermaids. 

FUNDARTE Presents:

 "ASESINOS POR UNA NOCHE" (ASSASSINS FOR ONE NIGHT) 


A Dance Theater performance piece combined with video installation based on the play by Cuban playwright José Triana, “Assassins for One Night” narrates the struggle against the constant restrictions imposed upon us by a system without any real power.  Through dance, theatre, music and projections, three characters deconstruct the obstacles that limit their individuality through the use of imagination and fantasy.  Alexey Taran (Director of Teatro Físico) and Carla Forte (Screenwriter and Filmmaker) are the intellectual authors of this night, during which the act of becoming an assassin will become a liberating escapade for both the onstage participants and the audience.


Directed by: ALEXEY TARAN 
Based on the play: "La noche de los asesinos" by José Triana and Texts by Carla Forte 
Performers: Carla Forte, Carlos Ortiz, Alexey Taran & Juraj Kojs 
Original music: JURAJ KOJS 
Film: "ASSASSINS FOR ONE NIGHT" 
Direction: Carla Forte 
Director of photography: Randy Valdes 
Editor: Alexey Taran 
Photo by: Hernán Gimenez  

"With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs , the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners." 

"Assassins for one Night was commissioned through Meet The Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program which is made possible by generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the Ford Foundation, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund."

“Dance Miami Choreographers Fellowship Program 2010-2011”

Meet The Composer 2010 Commissioning Music/USA program

Additional support by:

GlassWorks Multimedia

ArtsPoken

Trimedia Film

BILL YOUNG AND COLLEEN THOMAS PRESENT LITup AT 92Y HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL

DON’T LOOK NOW: IT’S A DANCE

BILL YOUNG AND COLLEEN THOMAS PRESENT LITup AT 92Y HARKNESS DANCE FESTIVAL

New and Repertory Work Plus Guest Artists NANCY BANNON, LEVI GONZALEZ and ALEXEY TARAN

Fri-Sun, Feb 18-20

NEW YORK, NY: January 5—Bill Young and Colleen Thomas are tired of dance performances. "I'm trying to make a dance where people don't notice I'm making a dance," Young says.

Young and Thomas, partners in both choreography and life, open this year's 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Festival on Feb 18-20 with LITup, a program designed especially for the dance space at 92Y. They create and curate a compilation of new and existing material from their repertory and works from guest artists Nancy Bannon, Levi Gonzalez and Alexey Taran.

Historias de la Urbe (Meet the Directors) Produced by BISTOURY

HISTORIAS DE LA URBE (URBAN STORIES) is a contemporary dramatic feature film that follows several immigrants of different nationalities as they adapt to life in Miami. The stories unfold through stylistic camera work that interrelates the eight vignettes, pushing the boundaries of independent cinema.

The stories take place in a gritty, modern landscape, where people arrive in search of a better life and economic conditions, hoping to achieve the American dream. All of them are quickly immersed in an urban space that appears to be beautiful and full of opportunities while also being filled with obstacles and human drama.

Although each story is a gritty, dramatic character study, the goal is to send audiences a message hope and better understanding of the human condition.

http://historiasdelaurbe.blogspot.com/

Supported by: Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana; AECID; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Miami World Cinema Center, and Glassworks Multimedia.

Dance Miami Choreographers Fellowship Program 2010-2011

Three Miami-Dade choreographers have been selected by a national panel for the 2010-2011 Dance Miami Choreographers' Fellowship:

Letty Bassart               http://www.lettybassart.com/

Augusto Soledade       http://www.brazzdance.com/

Alexey Taran               http://bistoury.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html

http://www.miamidadearts.org/Default.aspx

Commissioning Music/USA 2010

Meet The Composer Announces the 2010 Projects of Commissioning Music/USA

Composer: Juraj Kojs
Collaborator: Alexey Taran
Lead Commissioner: Harold Golen Gallery

August 18, 2010—Meet The Composer announces the collaborations awarded for the 2010 Commissioning Music/USA program. They are a diverse group of 19 composers and 45 choreographers, theater artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. This year, MTC awards $245,000 to 32 organizations to commission 19 new works. Composers at the leading edge of contemporary classical, jazz, and theater music will join with a wide variety of artists to combine music with dance, theater, film, and puppetry.

Meet The Composer president Ed Harsh says of this year’s selections, "We are thrilled by the creative energy that MTC is able to unleash from this excitingly varied group of artistic collaborations. Audiences across the country are going to find these new works fresh and engaging."

http://www.meetthecomposer.org/node/2716

Performance Journalism

The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, The Knight Foundation, and the Arts and Business Council Miami are pleased to invite you for a roundtable discussion with other dance professionals and dance presenters to discuss the key issues facing the dance community. We will also be discussing the 2010-2011 Phase of our Dance Journalism project, formally known as Performance Journalism, now known as ArtBurst.

Please join us on:

Thursday, September 30th3:00PM-4:00PM 

Stephen P. Clark Center6th Floor Conference Room

111 N.W. 1st Street (Vouchers for the Miami-Dade Center Garage, 

50 NW 2nd Avenue, directly behind the Library, 

can be validated for complimentary parking)

Please RSVP to Adriana Perez at 305-375-5019 

or asp@miamidade.gov. 

Please note that space is limited.

SUNPOSt WEEKLY - Movie Mojo

Movie Mojo

July 8, 2010 | John Hood

On Saturday night, at the Edge Zones Art Center in Wynwood, a gathering of Miami’s more cinematic-minded souls will meet. The occasion? A movie calledHistorias de la Urbe (Urban Stories). And while the flick isn’t entirely finished yet (the producers are looking at fall), the cast and the crew will be on hand to hype the project, as will Omar Roque, who will be performing excerpts from the film’s soundtrack.

ERE. Bistoury┃Physical Theatre presents:

Live musical performance by singer/songwriter Omar Roque and his band Carrusel.

"URBAN STORIES", an intimate look at the music and thoughts of the directors: the Forte Siblings.

Saturday, July 10, 2010. 

7-10 p.m.

Meet the people behind URBAN STORIES 

EDGE ZONES

ART CENTER

47 NE 25th St. | Miami, FL 33137

For information: ere.bisturi@gmail.com | www.bistoury.blogspot.com | 305.905.1275. 

edgezones@me.com | www.edgezones.org | 305.303.8852 

Maria Lanao | MWCC Communications | MIAMI WORLD CINEMA CENTER | the first non-profit film studio | 450 NW 28th St., Miami, FL 33127 | T- 1.305.433.5848, F- 1.305.433.4585 | Cell: 786-514-0301 | maria@miamiworld.org |www.miamiworld.org  

"With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners."

UNDERGROUND PROJECT / URBAN STORIES (Supported by ERE. Bistoury)

HISTORIAS DE LA URBE / URBAN STORIES

Historias urbanas que narran la incomunicación y miseria humana de inmigrantes hispanos, inconexos en vivencias y circunstancias, pero conexos a una misma ciudad superficial y materialista que aparenta ser hermosa mientras se pudre.

Urban stories that tell of the isolation and human misery of Hispanic immigrants, unconnected in their experiences and circumstances, while connected to the same city in its superficiality and materialism that make it seem beautiful while it is rotting away.

Historias de la Urbe es un largometraje que narra cortas historias de inmigrantes de habla hispana de distintas nacionalidades, que radican en el centro de una ciudad incógnita que se conoce por su superficialidad y materialismo. Inmigrantes que llegan a esta ciudad en búsqueda de una mejor calidad de vida y condiciones económicas, esperando pronto salir adelante para cumplir el sueño social que todo ser humano desea alcanzar. Todos ellos inmersos en una urbe que aparenta ser hermosa a simple vista y llena de oportunidades, cuando en realidad está rodeada de pesares y sufrimientos humanos.

Cada una de estas historias nos permite adentrarnos a un submundo emocional, donde se profundiza en el dolor, incapacidad, sufrimiento, incomunicación, maltrato, indiferencia, amor, mentira, egoísmo, inocencia, engaño, violencia y soledad, en los distintos protagonistas, que no hacen mas que el intento de sobrevivir en el centro de la urbe; desplazando inevitable sus raíces y costumbres, explorando en una nueva forma de vida, sistema, idioma y cultura de la apariencia, que inevitablemente choca contra la cruda realidad que los conforma. Una suma de circunstancias que los conlleva a estar en ese presente agobiante, rodeado de inconformidad, desgracia y pobreza.

Cada uno de los personajes que se presenta en el largometraje, poseen diferentes nacionalidades, entre ellas se incluyen: venezolanos, colombianos, mexicanos, españoles, peruanos, argentinos, ecuatorianos, entre otras, que a pesar de verse rodeados de países hermanos e identificados por la misma lengua, convergen en un mismo territorio en el que respirar tiene precio y en donde las circunstancias de vida no da ni siquiera para el saludo, lo que los convierte incluso en extraños de su misma gente, concentrados cada uno en un sueño que cada vez se ve y se siente más alejado, mientras las relaciones personales son cada día más imposibles.

Cada historia es in-conexa a la otra. La aparición de un nuevo personaje, se presenta solo a través del choque fortuito, adrede u ocasional de miradas cruzadas entre extraños. Lo que hace que el sentido de la vista juegue un papel importante no solo en la profundización de cada personaje, sus allegados y sus penas, sino también en como la visual de cada uno de ellos se ve alterada o interrumpida por factores externos como lo son las lágrimas, las enfermedades, las limitaciones visuales, las drogas, los pensamientos; haciendo de cada uno de ellos, un mundo único, lleno de sorpresas ópticas ligadas a la decadencia humana. Un viaje desde los ojos de cada individuo, que hurga en lo mas profundo de sus vísceras y emociones, dejando al descubierto una realidad que se vive y se siente en esta urbe plástica rodeada de drama, que no hace mas que dejarnos pensando sobre la decadencia y perdida de valores humanos, la desesperanza de evolucionar y la esperanza de sobrevivir en ciudad que aparenta ser hermosa mientras se pudre.

Solo hacia el final esta ciudad quedara al descubierto pasando a ser la protagonista principal de la historia, mostrando su otra cara de la moneda, esa que la gente evade o simplemente no conoce.

Urban Stories is a feature film that narrates short stories of Spanish-speaking immigrants, of different nationalities, that take place in the center of a faceless city known for its superficiality and materialism. Immigrants who come to this city in search of a better quality of life and economic conditions, hoping for an expedient fulfillment of the social dream that every human being wants to reach. All of them immersed in an urban space that, at first sight appears to be beautiful and full of opportunities, while in reality it is filled with human sorrow and suffering.

Each story opens a window to an emotional underworld that allows us to probe into the pain, incapacity, suffering, isolation, mistreatment, indifference, love, lies, selfishness, innocence, deceit, violence and loneliness of the different key players, who are only trying to survive in the midst of this urban space, inevitably displaing their roots and customs, exploring a new way of life, system, language and the culture of outward appearances that inevitably clashes with the crude reality that surrounds them. A sum of circumstances that leads them to this overwhelming present, surrounded by nonconformance, misfortune and poverty.

Each player shown in this feature film is of a different nationality: Venezuelans, Colombians, Mexicans, Spaniards, Peruvians, Argentineans, Ecuadorians, among others, who despite being surrounded by sister countries and identified by the same language, converge on the same territory in which breathing has a price and where the conditions of life do not even allow for a greeting, making them strangers among their own people, each one fixated on a dream that every day looks and feels farther away, while personal relations become ever more impossible.

Each story stands on its own. The appearance of a new player is shown only as a fortuitous encounter, deliberate or by accident, of a glance between strangers. Which makes the sense of sight play such an important part not only in an in-depth perception of each player, those close to him/her and his/her grief, but also how a visual of each one is altered or interrupted by external factors such as tears, illness, visual limitations, drugs, thoughts, making each one a unique world full of optical surprises linked to human decay. A trip that begins from the eyes of each individual probing into the depth of his gut feelings and emotions, uncovering a reality that is lived and felt in this plastic urban space, surrounded by drama, that leaves us thinking only of the decadence and the loss of human values, the anguish of evolving and the hope of surviving in a city that seems beautiful while it is rotting away.

Only toward the end will this city be exposed and become the lead player of the story, showing the other side of the coin, the one that people avoid or simply do not know.

Urban Stories Soundtrack by Omar Roque

Symbol 2009

The fifth movement

2009 Broward Fall Dance Concert. Broward Community College. Central Campus. Bailey Concert Hall. November 6-7, 2009.
Dancers: Greg Hoffman, Dani Gillis-Arroyo, Erin Murphy, Courtney DeFries, Makoto Nagamori.

SCHIZO' BOLO

SCHIZO' BOLO is a video (dance video) that talks about the urbanschizofrenia, irreality, collective madness and the anomalies of the daily life; all of this through the use of images and movement. Texts and visions of the dancers are used in order to create a piece where the video, the music, and the movement function as one unit.

BISTOURY & TRIMEDIA
Conceived and Directed by: Carla Forte & Alexey Taran
Performers: Carla Forte & Alexey Taran
Music by: Bistoury
Costumes: Bistoury
Set Design: Bistoury
Lighting: A. Puig
Video Artist: Carla Forte & Alexey Taran.

June 13, 2009

Zones Art Space

Bolo Croatia, July 2009

SYMBOL VIDEO MARCH 2009

From aerial dance and video-art to music, words and improvisation, Symbol explores the boundaries of poetry where color, beauty, desire, and faith incorporate us into the cosmic order. Dancers fly, suspended from the ceiling as rain washes down on them in a vivid display of athletic grace.

March 5-8, 2009, 7:30pm Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Carnival Studio Theater, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard.

Schizo' Bolo

SCHIZO' BOLO is a video (dance video) that talks about the urbanschizofrenia, irreality, collective madness and the anomalies of the daily life; all of this through the use of images and movement. Texts and visions of the dancers are used in order to create a piece where the video, the music, and the movement function as one unit.

SCHIZO' BOLO (SYMBOL) AT LIT Festival 2009, NY

Nov. 22, 2008

LIT alt. Soho Showcase 

100 Grand, Soho, NYC

NY, NY

www.billyoungdance.com

SCHIZO' BOLO (SYMBOL)

LIVE PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION ART EXHIBITION

ERE. BISTOURY & TRIMEDIA
Conceived and Directed by: Carla Forte & Alexey Taran
Performers: Carla Forte & Alexey Taran
Music by: Bistoury
Costumes: Bistoury
Set Design: Bistoury
Lighting: A. Puig
Video Artist: Carla Forte & Alexey Taran.

Upcoming Exhibition for June, 2009

SCHIZO' BOLO is a video (dance video) that talks about the urbanschizofrenia, irreality, collective madness and the anomalies of the daily life; all of this through the use of images and movement. Texts and visions of the dancers are used in order to create a piece where the video, the music, and the movement function as one unit.

When: Saturday, June 13, 2009 (June 13- June 27)
Time: 8 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. LIVE PERFORMANCE 9:30pm
Where: Zones Art Space
47 N.E. 25th St.
Wynwood, Art District
Miami, FL 33137
Tel: 305 303 8852
email: info@edgezones.org
web: www.edgezones.org

BOLO AT DANCE AND NON-VERBAL THEATRE FESTIVAL in SVETVINCENAT, CROATIA

DANCE AND NON-VERBAL THEATRE FESTIVAL in SVETVINCENAT, a small renaissance town in central Istria (a peninsula in the westernmost part of Croatia), was initiated in 2000 by Snjezna Abramovic - dancer, choreographer and artistic leader of the Zagreb Dance Company. The choice of this tiny town in Istria has proven successful, since during the summer Istria is a destination for many who are looking for culture as well as holidays. The programme of the festival takes place in non-theatrical open spaces, such as the city square, streets and in the „kaπtela“ [castle]. Open-air events enhance the charm and unique atmosphere of this event.

The Festival gathers together the Croatian dance community as well as foreign dancers, choreographers, festival programmers, dance teachers in a relaxed, almost informal atmosphere. The selection for the Festival consists of the dance productions of European choreographers, productions of Croatian choreographers as well as street theatre production, mime theatre works and circus events. The off-programme includes various dance and theatre workshops with a final presentation, visual art interventions and visual artists’ performances.

The final goal of the Festival is to make a Mediterranean Dance Centre a place of contacts that will establish links between the Croatian dance scene and international net of festivals. The Festival has been very prominently reported in the media and also extremely well accepted by its audience.

http://www.svetvincenatfestival.com/home.php

SYMBOL AT HERE & NOW 2009