December 30, 2008

Happy Holidays! We are getting ready for our Intermedia media screening "Making Rainbows" at the Anthology Film Archives on March 28, 2009 from 7 PM.

We would like to thank the Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program; New York Women in Film & Television; Dan Streible, the NYU Cinema Studies Department and Moving Image Archiving Program; Phill Niblock, EIF; Davidson Gigliotti, the Emily Harvey Foundation; Joshua Selman, the Artist Organized Art; and Andrew Lampert, the Anthology Film Archives.

The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.



November 13, 2008

The day before the historical presidential election on Nov 3rd, 2008, Elaine enlisted several of her friends to mount an Intermedia guerilla public event. With a slide projector and several dancers we hit the street without any concrete plan of action. We were able to project images from Bari's Cafe (thanks guys!) on a north west corner of Broadway and Spring street, while the dancers danced in white costumes and a couple of white bed sheets in front of the cafe.
Elaine was extremely happy with the result and hopes to develop the piece into a new piece called "Galumphing".

Dancers: Kiori Kawai, Jessica Higgins, Joanna R Steinberg, Joshua Selman and Mark Lanham.




Scott and Mark trying few things before going downstairs.

Elaine w/ dancers: Jessica Higgins, Kiori Kawai and Joshua Selman of AOA.

September 25, 2008

Here goes the most recent performance of Crows Nest/ Solitary Geography in 2005. Crows Nest was premiered at the Guggemheim Museum in 1981 for the Intermedia Festival by Experimental Intermedia Foundation which Elaine founded in 1968. This recreation was performed at Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama and organized by Alissa Cardone and Alla Kovgan, members of an intermedia performance collaborative Kinodance Company. Performers include Alissa Cardone, Ingrid Schatz, DeAnna Pellecchia, Debra Bluth, Olivier Besson and Laura Quattrocchi.
Video by Charles Daniels






September 23, 2008

We edited a short video of Illuminated Workingman for Elaine's interview on the Performance Art Journal.
IWM was performed at Niagara Square, Baffalo in 1975. Thirty minutes of dancefilm was projected across a 120 ft-wide screen suspended on the columns of City Hall. The film projected onto the screen captures the faces, feet and actions of Buffalo workingmen, from a man guiding a huge airliner into position at Greater Buffalo International Airport to a Buffalo Sabres hockey player gliding across Memorial Auditorium's ice. Elaine choreographed and directed the intermedia film footage, Tony Bannon filmed this beautiful documentary footage, with Caman Moore doing the music.






September 4, 2008

A new issue of Performance Art Journal (PAJ 90) just came out. Please pick up a copy and read "Gardens of Light and Movement", a 15 page interview with Elaine by a writer/artist Kristine Marx. We would like to thank Bonnie Marranca, a long time editor of the magazine, Kristine Marx, and Paula Court - whose pictures illustrate the article.

You can pick up a copy of the journal at McNally Jackson if you are in Soho area in NYC like us, or order online from MIT Press.



photo and collage by Elaine Summers (1969)


Dan Streible (of Orphan Films and NYU) have been a big help to us recently. Dan and his former student (also our most recent staff) Gabriella Hiatt have found Elainie's early film Another Pilgrim (1969-BW-41min) and we are discussing some exciting future plans.

Click HERE to visit Dan's website about his visit to us.
Also, Click HERE to see a title sequence from Another Pilgrim (QT - 8 MB)

Original 16 mm films of JUDSON FRAGMENTS (1964) B/W - 15 min. and Windows in the Kitchen (1977) Color - 11 min. has been restored and safely delivered to Elaine's archive at the The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library.
You can see the whole list of what they have HERE.

Short clip of Windows in the Kitchen (QT- 4 mb)
Short clip of Judson Fragments (QT- 9.6 mb)
NYTimes article of Windows in the Kitchen (PDF - 500K)

Preservation of this film was made possible by a grant from the Women's Film preservation Fund of New York in Film and Television, funded in part by General Motors

Elaine Summers
JUDSON FRAGMENTS (1964) B/W - 15 min.

Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue

November 13th, 2007 - 7.30 pm
PERFORMA 07 Film Programme: DANCE AFTER CHOREOGRAPHY / From Judson to the Present
Q & A afterwards, together with Yvonne Rainer

Click here to see a short clip of Judson Fragments (9.6 mb)

Preservation of this film was made possible by a grant from the Women's Film preservation Fund of New York in Film and Television, funded in part by General Motors

Elaine's NEW PROJECT! It will be performed on August 23rd, 8pm at Lincoln Center South Plaza. It is FREE and open to public. Click HERE for the project page, we will be putting lots and lots of stuff. - taketo

21 years ago Elaine Summers directed and choreographed an Intermedia opus for the Lincoln Center -Out-of-Doors Festival entitled Flowing Rock/ Still Waters. Now in 2007, Elaine has been invited to choreograph a new Intermedia work where the dancers are interacting with video projections of the dancers filmed during the performance of Flowing Rock/Still Waters.
Numbers of Elaine's friends will be participating: Pauline Oliveros, Alison Knowles, Thomas Kortvelyessy and Joshua Bisset to name a few.

Hurrah for Yvonne Rainer. Magnificent film/dance artist. Click here to see the detail on her Gala Performance / Dinner. See you there! - elaine

The exhibition is a work in progress "constructing the archives of Elaine Summers".

Come join us to the archiving of Elaine's choreography, Intermedia works, Kinetic Awareness, DanceFilms and much more.

DanceFilms and film documentaries will be screened by request.

Special Thanks to Emily Harvey Foundation, Friends of the New Cinema: Jonas Mekas, NYSCA, NEA, The Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library, Dr. Gerry O'Grady, City of Buffalo, Jenneth Webster, The Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, Otto Piene, Elizabeth Goldring, Center for Advanced Visual Studies - MIT, Jacob's Pillow, Brooklyn Museum and many more .

January 8th to 31st, 2 to 7pm (or open by appointment.)

Opening Reception: January 8th, 5 to 7pm
as a part of 2007 The Dance on Camera Festival.

Emily Harvey Foundation
537 Broadway 2nd Floor NY, NY 10012
212.925.7651 email: elaine@elainesummersdance.com

Benefit Workshop with appreciation to Movement Research

Projection, camera, dance, installation.
Exploring ways of sketching for Intermedia work (film/dance/installation).
A chance to see yourself dance in video projections.
A chance to choreograph video images.
Choreographic notation with video camera.
Elaine will provide 2000 sq ft loft space with video projectors,
If you wish please bring your own video camera.

$25 per class (limited to 10 people)

"My favorite part of the class was the film. It made everyone's movement look so interesting, and the contrast between the light and the shadows of the body was really cool. It really gave me some interesting ideas for choreographing."
from Intermedia Workshops at the New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL. Oct 2006
with thanks to Dean Daniel Lewis, Dale Andree, Emily Harvey Foundation
Friends of the New Cinema: Jonas Mekas and NYSCA.

Summer 2006 -


Yet another IOWA classic, a dancefilm by Elaine Summers' IOWA BLIZZARD (excerpt), edited by Bill Rowley
IOWA University, Iowa City, IOWA. 1973
Click Here to see the short video clip.
Thanks to NYSCA, NEA, Bill Rowley, IOWA University - Iowa City,IOWA and Prof. Hans Breder and the Center for the New Performing Arts.

Winter / Spring 2006 -
We found a 3/4" videotape of the rehearsal for SKYDANCE by Elaine Summers with air sculptures by Otto Piene for the 2nd Intermedia Art Festival at IOWA University, Iowa City, IOWA. 1980.

Thanks to NYSCA, NEA, IOWA University - Iowa City, IOWA and Prof. Hans Breder.
Thanks also goes to the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation.
Click Here to see the short video clip.

Winter / Spring 2006 -
Another IOWA classic... TWO GIRLS DOWNTOWN IOWA
IOWA University, Iowa City, IOWA. 1973
Click Here to see the short video clip.
Thanks to NYSCA, NEA, IOWA University - Iowa City,IOWA and Prof. Hans Breder.

Winter / Spring 2006 -
We have been scanning ILLUMINATED WORKINGMEN performance documentation.
Illuminated Workingmen (1975) at Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY. by Elaine Summers
Photo by Paula Court and Robert Lowe
Thanks to NYSCA, NEA, SUNY Buffalo, Dr. Gerry O'Grady and the city of Buffalo. NY.

Spring and Summer 2005 Performances -

INVITATION TO SECRET DANCERS:
Performed at Solar 1, an environmental arts and education center located in lower manhattan's Stuyvesant Cove Park
All the wonderful photos below by Jeff Fox.


Secret dancer with umbrellas

Carla, Maria and Harriet


Tina, Nancy and Harriet


RIchard and his umbrella


Meg, Tina and Secret dancers



Marion, Richard and Murphy

Elissa, Meg, Carla and Secret Dancers

Click here for the video documentation pt1 (2.4 mb)
Click here for the video documentation pt2 (4.2 mb)
Click here for the video documentation pt3 (6.1 mb)
all videos videographed by Ken Klein (c) 2005

CEC Stuyvesant Cove presents INVITATION TO SECRET DANCERS, a dance/film performance by Judson Dance Theatre's Elaine Summers. The performances will be held at the Solar 1, an environmental arts and education center located in lower manhattan's Stuyvesant Cove Park in collaboration with Tamar Rogoff. Original sound compositions by Carman Moore and Skyfriends will accompany.

WHO:
Marion Ramirez (25th), Hariet Bograd, Daniel Sklar, Nancy Barber, Tina Erfer, Pearl Bowser, Meg Chang,
Elissa White, Josh Bissett, Laura Quattrocchi, Rob Cook (Australia), Rebecca Loukes (London), Jung Woong Kim, Kiori Kawai (solo: Goddess of the Sea), Richard Juchum, Leeny Sack

MUSIC:
SKY ENSEMBLE
Composer: Carman Moore
Performers: Marianna Rosett, Premik Russell Tubbs

Invitation to Secret Dancers is an improvisational dance choreographed by Elaine Summers which has been performed in many places and countries by many people, including the Karlsplatz, Vienna, Australia, London, Rome, Woodstock, NYC and all over the U.S.A. Presently Thomas Kortelyessy Real Dance Company is performing his version of Invitation to Secret Dancers:
performers: Eva Tremel, Thomas Kortvelyessy
guest choreographer and dancer: Meredith Nadler
musician: Pierre Verbeek

For more information, contact Thomas Kortvelyessy at t.kortvelyessy@chello.nl

For information about free workshops please call: Elaine Summers (212)889-2731
or email Elaine at elaine@elainesummersdance.com
Project of The Kinetic Awareness (tm) Center.


Thomas Kortvelyessy in Holland: Performances in 2004 and 2005
con.sens.us - Eva Tremel, Thomas Kortvelyessy, Aharona Israel + guests
a series started in 2002 - Including Invitation to Secret Dancers, Dance Score by Elaine Summers