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Performance Saturday March 9, 2013 @ 7:30pm

Department ChairDance Division Director

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Dance Events CoordinatorElectrics/Sound Production Assistant

Stage Manager/Production AssistantElectrics/Sound Production Assistant

Video Recording/ArchivistAssistant to Bob Shannon

Electrics/Sound Production AssistantScenery/Video Production Assistant

Costume Shop ManagerCostume Shop Foreman

Costume Coordinators

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j department staff iBud ColemanMichelle EllsworthBob ShannonSharon Van BovenCristina GolettiAnthony AlterioJamie HolzmanSamantha LysaghtRachel OliverJessica PageJordan ThompsonAlex Valles-MedranoTed StarkBrenda KingAnnie KingJamie MaslachKatie DeVoreKayleigh Marsh DavisKaren LuMichelle McLambSahvanna PhelpsKayla PinneyCarolyn StroudHadley Kamminga-PeckKaitlin BarkerKate BoylesHeidi SchmidtClay Evans Laima HaleyDaniel LeonardEmily ScraggsHeather Gray

(un)W.R.A.P.Un-doing Writing.Research.And.Performance.

Choreographic forum, lectures and performances

j tech studio iLindsey AndersonMichael Bernacchi

Erin BurnettGina Lovell

Stephen MorenoKayla Wall

j scene shop assistants iMichael BatemanSarah Baughman

Kate BoylesWayne BreyerMegan Chaney Austin CoffinKarter DeaneMolly Gillard

Elizabeth JamisonChris Koncilja

Kassandra KunischGeneva Mattoon

Kelly McDermott Justin Mier

Melissa Neal Alex Rausch

Dmitriy Yumba

j costume shop employees iSarah AdlerErin BurnettSatya ChavezTony DostertAlexa Frank

Hayley GochaBrittany HandlerBrendan MiloveBrianna Provda

Sonya Smith

j costume practicum students iNellie Conboy

Annie DahlbergAlyssa GallotteJillian GoodmanAmanda HerreraTucker JohnstonCarissa KesselChris Koncilja

Justin MierTaylor MinckleyStephen Moreno

Alex RauschJenn Sonick

Stephanie SpectorReba Todd

Misah Zimmerman

Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (S)Choreography and Dancer

Technical DirectorDramaturg

Dramaturgical AssistanceSoundtrack Design

Music

CostumesSet

Visual Art (set)

Trajal HarrellMichael HartGérard MayenMoriah EvansTrajal Harrellvarious, including “for Alan Turning” by Robin Meier and “Again Free” by Imani UzuriMichael Ventolo and Trajal HarrellTrajal HarrellFranklin Evans

Twenty Looks or Paris Burning at the Judson Church (S) is a co-production: Workspace Brussels/Working Title Festival, Danspace Project, The New Museum,

Crossing the Line Festival 2009. Supported by funds from the 2009-2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Map Fund/Rockefeller Foundation,

The Alfred Meyer Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Residency support for Twenty Looks or Paris Burning at the Judson Church (S)

has been provided by Workspace Brussels and Tanzhaus Düsseldorf.

Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (S) takes a new critical position on postmodern dance aesthetics emanating from the

Judson Church period. By developing his own work as an imaginary meeting between the aesthetics of Judson and those of a parallel historical tradition, that of Voguing,

Trajal Harrell re-writes the minimalism and neutrality of postmodern dance with a new set of signs.

Date/Venue of Premiere: October 1, 2009, The New Museum, New York, NYLength of piece: 55 minutes

Please join us for a reception after the performance!

“What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come

downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”

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Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (S) is presented as part of: (UN) W.R.A.P./ Un-doing Writing.Research.And.Performance, a 6-day forum exploring

the connection between dance scholarship and choreography. Curated by Cristina Goletti as her final MFA thesis project, this event features renowned scholars

André Lepecki and Ryan Platt, as well as award-winning artist Trajal Harrell.

j special thanks iTo the wonderful faculty and staff at CU Dance Division for their love and support,

every dance graduate and undergraduate student at CU for their inspiring work, Trajal Harrell, Andre Lepecki, Ryan Platt, and Michael Hart for sharing

their knowledge and artistry, Bob Shannon and Sharon Van Boven for everything they do, Marina Cavalli, Enrico Goletti, Nick Bryson, Cristina Raschi, Jessica Pearson, Emma Nee Haslam,

Mollie Wolf, Jadd Tank, Deanna Downes, Charlie Dando, Toby Hankin, Naomi Mooney, Gesel Mason, Melissa Malpignano, Gabe Masson, and Greg Adelman

for their unconditioned love.

Cristina Goletti trained at the London Contemporary Dance School where she earned a Postgraduate Diploma with distinction. As a dancer, she performed works by Hofesh Schechter, Jonathan Lunn,

Charles Linehan, Maresa Von Stockert and Yann Lheraux among others. In Ireland, she danced for Daghdha Dance Company and Myriad Dance Company. In 2007, she co-founded Legitimate Bodies Dance Company,

the dance company in residence at Birr Theatre and Arts Centre and supported by Offaly County Council and the Irish Arts Council. LBDC has been touring to some of the most important

venues and festival in Europe and abroad including: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Aerowaves Dance Festival at The Robin Howard Theatre-London, Dance House Limassol-Cyprus, Auditorium Theatre-Rome, Tanec Praha-Prague, the European

Parliament in Brussels, Tanzmesse-Dusseldor, as well as to Mexico and the USA.

Cristina’s recent awards include: DanceWEB European Scholarship Vienna 2008, two Bursary Awards, several travel awards and the Project Award from The Irish Arts Council. She also received support from the European Cultural

Foundation to attend the Atelier for Young Festival Managers IZMIR 2011. Cristina, who is also a certified Pilates teacher from Body Control Pilates UK, has been teaching release

technique and floor work across Europe, Japan, Mexico and the USA as well as an adjunct faculty at the University of Limerick for the BA in Voice and Dance and the MA Program in contemporary dance. Since 2008 she has been the director

of I.F. O.N.L.Y./ International Festival of a Necessarily Lonely You, the first and only festival in Ireland dedicated to dance solos. Cristina is an MFA candidate at University of Colorado Boulder, where she’s focusing on

dramaturgy, somatic techniques, queer and feminist studies, and dance production. In 2011, she presented at the SDHS conference in Toronto, in 2012 at the Arts in The Society conference in Liverpool, and at CORD conference at the University of Michigan. In 2013, she will present at CORD Special Topics Conference at UCLA.

Ryan Platt is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Drama and Dance at Colorado College. He holds a BA in Theatre & Dance and French Studies from Amherst College and a doctoral

degree from Cornell University, where he studied 20th-century and contemporary performance in the context of French and German literature and theory. He has also studied at the

Université de Paris VI and at Humboldt-Universität during a DAAD Research Fellowship in Berlin. Ryan’s writing has appeared in PAJ and Theatre Journal.

Platt’s recent research explores the relationship between theatre and technology in movement-based performance. Movement provides the conceptual lynchpin of his dissertation, which articulates

an emergent aesthetic paradigm: screen performance. In contrast to traditional notions of televisual technology, this study proposes the screen as a conceptual model that mediates phenomena excluded from the formal construction of theatre and film.

The development of this theory proceeds through close readings of artists who explore the disciplinary margins between dance, installation art, and cinema: filmmaker Chantal Akerman and choreographers

Yvonne Rainer and William Forsythe. His current research considers literary examples of screen performance in texts that use translation as a theme to explore the experience of individuals relegated to cultural margins,

especially women and immigrants. These artistic applications of translation lay the groundwork for his next project, which will study “sonic performance” in sound art, language-based plays, and experimental musical theatre.

Ryan maintains a website on the subject of performance at http://ryanplatt.net/.

Ryan Platt

André Lepecki (Brazil, 1965) is Associate Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. He is also a curator, writer and dramaturg. He earned his doctoral degree from NYU (2000) and graduated in Cultural Anthropology at the New University of Lisbon, where he was also a Post-Graduate Junior Research Fellow at

the Center for Sociological Studies (1990-3). Author of Exhausting Dance: performance and politics of movement (Routledge 2006), currently translated into 6 languages. He edited the

anthologies Of the Presence of the Body (Wesleyan 2004), The Senses in Performance (with Sally Banes, Routledge 2007), and Planes of Composition: Dance Theory and the Global (with Jenn Joy, Seagull Press 2010).

His writing has also appeared in Performance Research, The Drama Review, Art Forum, Nouvelles de Danse, among other publications in Europe, Brazil, and the Middle East. He belongs to the editorial board

of Performance Research, e-mispherica, inflexions, among other academic journals.

Lepecki was the curator of the festival Nomadic New York for Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2007). He was the curator of the 2008 and 2009 editions of the performing arts festival IN TRANSIT also at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

His co-curatorial and directorial work on the re-doing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (commissioned by Haus der Künst, Munich) received the International Art Critics Association Award for

“Best Performance” (2008). In 2010, he co-curated with Stephanie Rosenthal the Archive on Dance and Visual Arts since the 1960s for the exhibition Move: choreographing you, for the Hayward Gallery,

Southbank Center, London. Also in 2010 he co-curated with Eleonora Fabião the event Activations, Passages, Processes for ArtCena Festival, Rio de Janeiro.

In 2009, Lepecki was a Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies on the Interweaving of Performance Cultures, Freie Universität, Berlin. Grants and Fellowships include the Gulbenkian Foundation

and the Luso-American Foundation Doctoral Fellowships, the Rockefeller Foundation Group Fellowship at the Bellagio Research Center, among others. He has given numerous talks in Europe, the U.S., Brazil, Australia,

including at Brown University; the Gauss Seminars at Princeton University; Centre National de la Danse, Paris; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid; Haus der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin; MoMA; Centro Itaú Cultural, São Paulo;

the University of Ghent; Roehampton University; Tate Modern; Freie Universität, Berlin, among many other academic and cultural venues. Currently Lepecki is working on a

book on dance and sculpture.

Trajal Harrell is a New York City-based artist. His work has been presented in many U.S. venues including The Kitchen, The American Realness Festival, Institute of Contemporary Arts- Boston,

Danspace Project, FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, and Dance Mission (San Francisco, CA), among others. Internationally, his work has toured in France, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany,

Poland, Croatia, Portugal, and Mexico, and has been presented in international festivals such as Rencontres Chorégraphiques (Paris), Festival d’Avignon, Impulstanz-Vienna, TanzimAugust (Berlin), and Panorama

Festival- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others. A graduate of Yale University, he has been an artist-in-residence at Dansens Hus- Stockholm, CDC Toulouse, Summer Stages Concord Academy/The Institute of Contemporary Arts (Boston),

PACT Zollverein, Workspace Brussels, The White Oak Residency and Dance Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Movement Research, Bennington College, Wp Zimmer (Antwerp, Belgium), Impulstanz Vienna International Dance

Festival, Workspace Brussels, Tanzhaus Dusseldorf, TanzWerkstatt-Berlin, Skite 2010 (Caen, France), CCN Montpellier, CCN Belfort, and CNDC Angers.

Other appointments include the following: In 2008, he was appointed co-artistic mentor for the DanceWeb program at The Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival. He has also been active

in artist-led curatorial and educational initiatives. From 2006-2011, he was guest artist editor-in-chief of The Movement Research Performance Journal. He has taught, mentored, and/or led workshops and master classes in contemporary dance in the following contexts: Wherever Whenever Festival Tokyo (2012), Movement Research (2012); Colorado College (2011);

Gati Dance/Goethe Institute, New Delhi, India (2011); Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Vienna, Austria (2011, 2009, 2008); Performing Arts Research and Training (P.A.R.T.S) Exchange,

New York, NY and Brussels, Belgium (2009); International Contemporary Dance Conference and Performance Festival, Bytom, Poland (2008); Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (2008); Director of Education, Movement Research,

New York, NY (1999-2004); Dancemakers in the Schools, New York, NY (1996-2001); Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont (1998).

Harell has also shown performance work in visual art contexts such as Fondation Cartier (Paris), The New Museum, The Margulies Art Warehouse (Miami), The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the

Arts, and Art Basel-Miami Beach, where he collaborated with artist Assume Vivid Astro Focus. He is best known for this seminal series of works, Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church.

The series comes in seven sizes- (XS), (S), (M), (jr.), (L) plus the (Made-to-Measure), which premiered in October 2012 at Danspace Project, and a final (XL) publication. His works Quartet for the End of Time, Twenty Looks or

Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (S), along with (M)imosa were chosen by TimeOut-NY Magazine as one of the best dances of 2008, 2009, and 2011, respectively.

Trajal Harell

Cristina Goletti

André Lepecki

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