Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey with Jonathan Bepler: TOOL IS LOOT
Thursday-Saturday, September, 22-24 and September 29-October 1, 8pm
Curated by Yasuko Yokoshi
TOOL IS LOOT is a one-year process of disorientation resulting in a duet. Working apart, in the U.S. and France respectively, Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey each solicited week-long encounters with non-dance experts. Each artist treated their aesthetic position to a barrage of assessment, opinions and desires of an “outsider” – including an astro-physicist, sommelier, architect, film editor, medical supply salesman, kinetic sculptor, baroque opera singer, art critic, acoustician, and social activist. As the two choreographers come together in TOOL IS LOOT their identities are simultaneously undone and strengthened. They ask “What comes after you don’t know anymore?” Featuring original music from composer Jonathan Bepler and lighting design by Thomas Dunn.
A production of WCV, Inc., TOOL IS LOOT is co-commissioned by The Kitchen and EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Creation of the work was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust; a 2010-2011 Joyce SoHo Creative Residency, funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Baryshnikov Arts Center; CNDC Angers and FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance program); Dance Place (D.C.); Atlantic Center for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation.
TOOL IS LOOT was commissioned through the 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.
This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State’s 62 counties; and American Music Center Live Music for Dance Program.
Dance programs at
The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from The Harkness
Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore
Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Image Design :
Adam Shecter
September 22–October 1, 2011
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