Performing in the 2010 Green Show on Friday, July 9; and Sunday, July 11.
Acro-Aerial Artistry, plus excerpts from GIMP.
Dance event featuring disabled and non-disabled performers.
Website: www.thegimpproject.com
HEIDI LATSKY (Director/Choreographer) first received recognition as a celebrated principal dancer for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Since then she has been a choreographer for stage, theater and film. Her choreographies have been commissioned by the Cannes International Dance Festival, The American Dance Festival, Danspace Project, Whitney Museum of Art, The Joyce Theater and other prestigious venues. Latsky headed the Movement Depat. at The School for Film and Television and was recently chosen by Creative Capital Foundation as one of four choreographers nationally to receive an award for her innovative work. The company received residencies through the Joyce Theater Foundation, at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and the Abrons Arts Center. In 2006 Latsky created a work with bi-lateral amputee, Lisa Bufano. GIMP premiered in Albuquerque, NM, November, 2008, at the North Fourth Arts Center. Since then, GIMP has been performed at the Abrons Arts Center (NYC), Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), The Kennedy Center (DC), Holy Cross University (MA), CAP Awards (The Netherlands). Upcoming venues include The Reelabilities Film Festival at the Jewish Community Center (NYC), The Flynn Theater (Burlington), University of Nebraska, SUNY Stonybrook, and Dublin Dance Festival. GIMP is the subject of two documentaries, an Associated Press multi-media piece and a national NPR story.
Jen & Nate on Community: GIMP "forces our eyes and minds to perceive beauty not as a static artifact of conventional perfection but as a dynamic construct of effort and intentionality," said Ivan Sygoda of Pentacle, a leading dance management company. GIMP is not victim art or a pity piece; it IS inclusive without compromising the highest standard of the dance form, "a gleaming milestone in the progress of contemporary dance and theater," said Dance Magazine. Our communities include the dance and disability communities, the disability rights movement, the aerial and gymnast community. The choreographer is also interested in connecting to and incorporating into the work disabled Vets. In past university based residencies we have worked in collaboration with many different schools/depts. including dance, disability studies, sociology, psychology and film. (We can present a disability focused Film event).