Sundays on Broadway an ongoing series created by Cathy Weis Projects Weis Acres, 537 Broadway #3 FREE November 23, 2014 at 8pm Curated by Catherine Galasso featuring work by Andy de Groat and Jim Neu A cross-generational gathering and performance event that celebrates NY performance history and the contemporary question of archiving through the re-creation of works by seminal downtown artists Andy de Groat and Jim Neu. The evening includes readings of two short scenes written Neu, a live re-performance of de Groat's Rope Dance Translations from 1974, followed by a structured improvisation between young dancers and former Andy de Groat collaborators. Jim Neu scenes performed by Jess Barbagallo, Joshua William Gelb and Keith McDermott. Andy de Groat's Rope Dance Translations performed by Rachel Berman, Christine Bonansea, Patrick Gallagher and Buck Wanner. Discussion and improvisation by former Andy de Groat collaborators (special guests to be announced.) About Sundays on Broadway: In May 2014, Cathy Weis Projects launched Sundays on Broadway, a new, ongoing series featuring performances, discos, film screenings, dinner parties and all manner of affairs on Sunday evenings. All events begin at 8pm and are free and open to the public. The series is held at WeisAcres in SoHo, New York, at 537 Broadway #3 (between Prince and Spring Streets). Photos above by Lois Greenfield and Donna Ann McAdams Catherine Galasso is a choreographer and media artist based in Brooklyn. Her cross-disciplinary works have been performed at Joyce SoHo, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, among other venues. In 2014 she began a project of recreating works by former members of the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, a group formed by Robert Wilson and active between 1968 and 1975. Catherine is the daughter of composer Michael Galasso and dancer Liz Pasquale, also original members of the School of Byrds.
Andy de Groat was born in 1947 in the United States into a family of Dutch, Italian, French, German and English origins. Whilst studying at the New York School of Fine Art in 1967, he met the director Robert Wilson. He joined his troupe as a dancer, then as a choreographer for all the productions from Deafman Glance in 1971, A Letter for Queen Victoria in 1974 to Einstein on the Beach in 1976, created for the Avignon Festival. In 1981, he received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation in New York for his choreographic research. He created new works in succession for red notes/cie andy de groat, including several for Jean Guizerix, Wilfride Piollet, Jean-Christophe Paré, the Choreographic Research Group of the Opera of Paris (GRCOP), the Scala in Milan, Ris et Danceries, the Ballet du Nord (Roubaix) and Wah Loo Tin Tin Co, a Montauban-based company of young performers. Today, his work totals over sixty creations that have been presented in around twenty countries and periodically goes back to questioning the repertoire and the heritage of dance. His company has worked regularly on lyrical productions since 1988, in particular on The Magic Flute (Mozart), with Robert Wilson at the Opera Bastille, Paris, The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky), with Alfredo Arias for the Aix-en-Provence Festival of Lyric Art and at the Operas of Lyon, Gênes and Montpellier, Aida (Verdi) and Klaus Michael Grüber at the Amsterdam Opera. Jim Neu has written over 25 plays which have been presented at Dixon Place, PS122, Danspace Project, Soho Rep, Westbeth Theater Center, often at La MaMa and also in various cities here and abroad. Dixon Place presented ALONE TOGETHER in 2004 and 2005, THE BIG LIP AND OTHER BALKTALK in 2000 and works-in-progress versions of many of his plays. He has collaborated with choreographers such as Douglas Dunn, Yoshiko Chuma, David Woodberry, Cathy Weis and Charles Moulton and wrote screen plays for Andy Horn’s films, DOOMED LOVE and THE BIG BLUE. http://www.jimneu.com/ Comments are closed.
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*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 historyJanuary-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 blog archives
May 2020
November 23: Sundays on B'way
September 2014: Venice, Italy August 2014: Residency Paris June 2014: Residency Bucharest May 30-31: Fort Greene Brooklyn April 4 2014: Danspace Project March 24 2014: Dixon Place categories
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