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A Handful of Dust at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

8/1/2013

 
Right on the heels of Watermill residency I went off to Santa Barbara to create a new piece for the Contemporary Arts Forum (recently renamed the Museum of Contemporary Arts). Curator Heather Jeno Silva invited me to create a performance for the CAF galleries, in response to the current exhibition, A Handful of Dust. Dancer Mickey Mahar came with me, and we created a 30-minute piece in 2 days, based on some sketches that we started at Watermill. While this piece is separate from Fall of the Rebel Angels, it feels very much informed by this research, and will inevitably influence Rebel Angels going forward. You can hear some of Adam Bach’s original score in the video below (sandwiched between Phil Phillips and Soulwax).

The piece started with a list of ingredients, something I had not tried before, but came out of the the necessity of needing to make something very quickly. From my notebook on the plane:

At least one moment of extreme physicality. One moment of virtuosity, one moment of hilarity (we get actual laughs). One moment of musicality (of actual choreography to music). One fancy lighting trick. A moment where the audience falls asleep. Some suffering, and a reward. We always know what to do, especially in moments of extreme unknowability. A moment when they want to dance with us. Some awkward sexy moment, that’s genuine at the same time. Whoever we are, we must change over time. Become more of ourselves, less of ourselves, become larger than life (giant shadows) and smaller than loose change (lost and scattered on the ground beneath peoples’ feet). We are alone and together. We are professionals. We are entertainers.

I’d like to think that the exercise made things clearer. We performed the piece on March 7 2013, and here are some photos from the show by Robert Redfield:redfieldpictures.com

Rebel Angels at the Art Southampton Kick-Off Party

7/16/2013

 
Fall of the Rebel Angels Study #5
last 2 minutes of a 20 minute performance
July 5 2013
Art Southampton Kick-Off Party hosted by Beth McNeill
Created by Catherine Galasso with sound by Adam Bach
Performed by: Matty Davis, Alice MacDonald, Sarah Sandoval
Created with support from: The Watermill Center

    *upcoming*

    September 18-19, 2020:
    Field Notes: Outdoor Dances for This 21st Century
     
    ​PS21 in Chatham, NY

    June 2021
    Alone Together reprisal at ODC Theater, San Francisco

    recent history

    January-February 2020:
    Gibney DiP Residency for City of Women

    December 13 2019: reprisal of notes on de groat & GET DANCING at Kohler Arts Center

    December 7 2019: premiere of Cloud Dance 2.0, new commission for Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin

    July 2019:
     Catherine choreographs "The Miracle of Heliane" at Bard Summerscape

    March 2019:   "COLORS" Catherine's collaboration with TPO Company (Italy)  Premiers at BAM
    December 2018: "Alone Together" premieres at ODC Theater San Francisco
    November 2018: Catherine assists Annie-B Parson with "Antigonick" at Abrons Arts Center NYC

    June 15-17 Of Granite and Glass at Brookfield Winter Garden, NYC
    October 2018: Residency collaboration with TPO Company in Prato, Italy
    May 2018: LMCC Residency
    April 13-14, 2018 Sight Lines curation at BAX
    Feb 11, 2018 BAX Open Studios

    Jan 20, 2018 "notes on de groat" at Bard Graduate Center
    Fall 2017: Teaching Choreography at NYU's Experimental Theater Wing
    June 23-24, 2017: Of Iron and Diamonds v1 at BAX

    Feb & Nov: BAX Open Studios
    ​GET DANCING Nominated for a Bessie!

    May 30, 2016: CATCH at the Knockdown Center
    December 2015: GET DANCING at Danspace Project
    October 2015: LMCC Open Studios
    September 2015: Residency at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center
    June 26-28 2015: Fall of the Rebel Angels X at River To River Festival
    May 1-10 2015: Jim Neu's The Floatones at La MaMa
    March 2015: Extended Life Residency at LMCC Governors Island
    February 6, 2015: Andy de Groat Remounts at 92nd Street Y
    January 22-25, 2015: in residence at the Watermill Center
    November 2014 : Sundays on Broadway 
    August 2014: Residency in Paris with Andy de Groat
    June 2014: Residency in Bucharest, Romania
    Other news...
    May 2014: Fall of the Rebel Angels #8 in Fort Greene Brooklyn
    April 2014: Food For Thought Guest Curator Danspace Project NYC

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