Harold Golen Gallery
314 NW 24 Street, Wynwood Art District, Miami FL, 33127
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March 14, 2009 at 5PM (pre-concert talk) and 6PM (concert)
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Program:
1. Two Scenes from Vertical Sprawl.
Directed by: Heather Maloney and Juan Carlos Espinosa
Performed by: Heather Maloney and John Beauregard
Music: Juan Carlos Espinosa
2. BOLO Program
Directed by: Alexey Taran
Performed by: Carla Forte, Alexey Taran
Music: Frank Wo +Vulvavalvula+ Mio Morales
Set Design: Lino Rojas
Text: Bolero Maquinal “La Lupe Cienfuegos”: Vicente Forte
Video: Espacio de Revoltillo Escénico (ERE)
Notes and bios
Two Scenes from Vertical Sprawl Vertical Sprawl is an evening-length work that explores the consequence of the human urge to reach for excess and control and how it affects everything around them. Overconsumption and greed lead to scarcity and conflict – without resolution there is social and environmental collapse. Out of the desolation emerge a new order that can break the cycle or just start it again. The piece is informed by a number of narrative strands that are delicately woven through the piece as disparate as the Easter Island Birdman myth, the extinction of languages, Wagner’s Ring and the Miami real estate boom and bust cycle.
Heather Maloney is a performer, choreographer and activist originally from Virginia. Her choreography has been presented at Florida Dance Festival, New World School of the Arts, Fundanza, Cumuná, Venezuela, Performatica, Puebla, Mexico, and Fusebox, Austin TX. She has been awarded residencies at the Queens Museum of Art, New York (2003); at The Center For New Dance Development in Portland, Maine (2005); Recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/ New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (2004) NPN Residency through a Community Fund presenter Tigertail Productions (2004) NPN performance residency with Women and their Work Austin Texas (2008). She has been awarded the 2007 Miami Dade Choreographer's Fellowship from the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs. Maloney has been selected as an emerging choreographer for Bates Dance Festival 2008. Maloney holds a BFA from New World School of the Arts She has taught workshops at New World School of the Arts, Bates College as well as in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela and currently is adjunct faculty at Florida International University
Juan Carlos Espinosa is a composer and sound artist who lives in Miami, Florida. He has written over 100 solo, chamber, choral and electro-acoustic works. Espinosa is currently collaborating with Heather Maloney in an evening length work tentatively titled Vertical Sprawl. He has also worked with choreographers Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros. Both Maloney and choreographer Crystal Sepulveda used his music in the Movement Lab Series in summer 2008. The composer collaborated with artist and partner Xavier Cortada over the past few years. A joint residency in Antarctica (December 2006 – January 2007) resulted in a number of new works including Erebus for piano, trombone and electronics (premiered at the Subtropics Festival 19), the 12-part electro-acoustic work titled Ice Paintings (inspired by Cortada’s series of the same name) and Terra Australis Incognita for orchestra. Another work, Longitudinal Installation (a sound installation) opened at the United Nations’ “Envisioning Change” exhibit in Oslo, Norway; the show is currently at the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts in Brussels and will end up at the Field Museum in Chicago in 2008. Four pieces from Ice Painting series are installed at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Espinosa has begun work on sound recordings and notes gathered during a recent trip to the North Pole and the Baltics. He is currently Associate Dean & Fellow at the Honors College at Florida International University.
John Beauregard lived and skied most of his life in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. John is a building contractor and as project manager to build The Lois Pop LIFE Center for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis. John has been member of Karen Peterson and Dancers since 2000 performing in the Different Ability Festival in Capri, Italy, April 2002 and Edinburgh Festival in September 2003. In 2004 John traveled to Köln to work with German choreographer Gerda König on a project commissioned by Tigertail Productions. John has danced and collaborated with Heather Maloney since 2006.
ERE. Bistoury, a Contemporary Dance Ensemble which recently established itself in South Florida after performing in Caracas, Venezuela where the company was originally established. ERE. Bistoury means (Scramble Scenic Space) dedicated to a dance styles that lets the dancer improvise without any set form or restrictions. During its four year of existence performing in Venezuela and at different international dance festivals the company has demonstrated a high degree of professionalism and creativity, elevating the art of dance to a new dimension. Members of the ensemble are all well respected professional dancers with was experience in both classical and modern dance styles and who are not satisfied with the traditional concept of dance as they explore new dimensions in the art of dance.