WALTER DUNDERVILL: ARENA

July 30 - August 1, 2015

“[Dundervill] brings a brilliant and bizarre sensibility to everything he touches, as a set designer, costumer, performer, choreographer, and director. “ – Martha Sherman, danceviewtimes

PLEASE ALSO NOTE: This is a performance installation, without a traditional seating area, and although there will be some seats available, purchasing a ticket does not necessarily guarantee a seat, just entry.

Bessie-winner Walter Dundervill brings ARENA back to JACK, an installation performance that created a buzz when it premiered at JACK in July 2014. Over the course of each three-hour installation, Dundervill and his dancers utilize costumes, fabrics, and various everyday materials to build a landscape continually in flux.

Featuring:
Tyler Ashley (Thur, Sat)
Benjamin Asriel (Thur, Fri, Sat)
Walter Dundervill (Thur, Fri, Sat)
Jessie Gold (Thur, Fri)
Niall Jones (Thur, Fri, Sat)
Jennifer Kjos (Thur, Fri, Sat)
Kevin Lovelady (Thur, Fri, Sat)
Athena Malloy (Thur, Fri, Sat)
Omagbitse Omagbemi (Fri, Sat)

Lighting: Ben Demarest
Technical Assistance: Ashley Beeler

Curated by Stacy Grossfield

In this installation dance piece by multiple Bessie-winner Walter Dundervill, the choreographer himself facilitates a hypnotic three-hour ritual in which he ushers his dancers through ever-changing costumes, mise-en-scène and movement sequences, covering their bodies and the space in foil, fabric and plexiglass within a droning sonic landscape. The audience may enter at any time during the performance and stay as long as they like.

WALTER DUNDERVILL is a multidisciplinary dance artist based in New York City. He creates immersive performance environments fusing choreography, visual art, costume, and sound design. His work has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop, The Chocolate Factory, Dixon Place, JACK, Participant Inc., Blakston Gallery, NADA, the Movement Research Festival, and the Solo in Azione Festival in Milan, Italy. Dundervill has received Bessie Awards for the visual design of his own choreography, Aesthetic Destiny 1: Candy Mountain (2011), the costume design for luciana achugar's Puro Deseo (2009), and as a dancer in RoseAnne Spradlin's under/world (2003). He has also created costume and set for Ivy Baldwin, Tere O'Connor, and RoseAnne Spradlin. Dundervill has performed for choreographers and visual artists including RoseAnne Spradlin, DD Dorvillier/Future Human Dance Corps, Keely Garfield, Yves Musard, Bruce Nauman, Lovett/Codagnone, Kembra Phaler, and David Wojnarowicz. Dundervill is a member of the Artist Advisory Council at Movement Research. He has been an artist in residence at Movement Research, the New Museum, and New York Live Arts.

Photo by Maria Baranova.