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REPURPOSING
Photo courtesy of the artist
Nina Beier
COMPLETE WORKS (2009/2011)
5:30pm-7:30pm | James Galler
A work for a dancer at the end of his or her career, in which they try to remember every dance move they have ever learnt, in chronological order.
“In this commingling of memory, Beier not only exposes the deficiency of representation to repeat the past ‘as it really was’, but also shows that any present action is stratified by a network of immaterial images that are both memories and simulations. The dancer’s gestural transmissions offer only traces of missing narratives (from both the productions and the dancer’s experience), allowing the viewers to enact a similar process of recollection.”
– Post Brothers (from 'Text' published by Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, 2011)
Photo courtesy of the artist
Artists Involved
Conceived by Nina Beier; Performed by Michael Blake
Lead Artists
Nina Beier (Denmark, 1975) is a Berlin-based artist and a graduate from Royal Collage of Art in London. She has recently had institutional solo shows at YBCA in San Francisco, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen) and shows with Marie Lund at MUDAM (Luxembourg), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Nomas (Rome) and De Vleeshal (Middelburg). Her work has further been shown at Hamburger Bahnhof, KunstWerke and Neugerriemschneider (Berlin), Kunsthalle Schirn (Frankfurt), ExtraCity (Antwerp), Castello di Rivoli (Torino), David Roberts Art Foundation (London), Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome), Project Arts Centre (Dublin), Swiss Institute (NYC), Hayward Gallery, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, ICA (London), Kunstverein Hannover and Kunsthalle Zürich.
Michael Blake began his dance career in the Murray Louis Dance Company where he danced from 1982-1984. In 1986 he joined the José Limón Dance Company, dancing principal roles until 1991. Michael danced with Donald Byrd/The Group from 1991-1998. He has also danced with the Joyce Trisler Danscompany, Shapiro and Smith, The Glue Factory Project – CORNING WORKS, and Janis Brenner and Friends. He has appeared on stage at the Supper Club NYC, national tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and in the films The Adventures of Cri Cri, and Unsettled Dreams. He has taught numerous workshops both nationally and internationally, and is on the theater arts faculty at HB Studio NYC, teaching Movement for Actors. Michael is the Director of the Joffrey Ballet School Jazz and Contemporary Program, and currently dances with PARADIGM Dance. He is also a recipient of the 2010 "Bessie" Award for dance and performance.
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