| Wally Cardona |
Wally Cardona March 28 - April 11, 2009 mancc research highlights
Research Topics: architecture of persons - performance/phenomenon Work in Development: REALLY REAL Cardona will be developing REALLY REAL, a dance/music that includes collaborators Phil Kline (composer), Rick Murray (lighting designer) and a cast of 7 dancers, a movement chorus of approximately 48 people (dancers or non-dancers) and a youth chorus of approximately 30-40. The hear of Cardona's process has ben to take something very much of this world, pull it apart, put it back together, and transform it. So, while the actions might begin from something familiar, the questions and challenges put forth to the performers in the creative process move the end, result to a threshold that is familiar yet otherworldly. This threshold is the true impetus of REALLY REAL and to fully express this, Cardona is looking to people - many people - as the vehicle for the work. About REALLY REAL, Cardona writes "In a balancing act of nuance and scale, this performance for movers and singers is simultaneously abstract and about nearly everything, including youth, beauty, love, death, sex, and power". Collaborators in residence: Rick Murray [lighting designer], Julian Barnett, Kana Kimura, Joanna Kotze, Omagbitse Omagbemi, Stuart Singer and Francis Stansky [dancers] http://www.wcvismorphing.org Wally Cardona (Choreographer/Director) has been recognized nationally and internationally for creating vast yet intimate landscape works that use the performance setting itself as an integral partner in the creation of movement. He is the recipient of a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in choreography and a 2006 New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for the creation of Everywhere. A competitive gymnast and clarinetist before beginning to dance at age 19, Cardona was brought up in California and New Mexico, moving to New York City in 1986 to study dance at The Juilliard School (B.F.A.). His first work premiered in 1992 at the Festival International de Danse a Cannes; his next work, Made In Voyage (1995), was performed in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Chile, Argentina, Korea and France; and his first large-scale project took place in 1996 when French choreographer Hervé Robbe/Le Marietta Secret invited him to create a double purpose/a double emploi for a cast of four French and four American dancers. The following year, Wally Cardona Quartet (WC4) was founded. Since then, the company has been presented at theaters throughout the U.S. - including Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Joyce Theater, Portland Institute for Centemproary Art’s TBA Festival, Dance Theater Workshop - and festivals in Europe, South America and Asia. Current projects include A Light Converation (a collaboration with Swiss-born, London-based choreographer Rahel Vonmoos); Really Real (commission: BAM and International Festival of Arts and Ideas); Revival (commission: Group Motion for Peregrine Art’s Hidden City in Philadelphia); and teaching Performance/Phenomenon: Theory and Philosophy into Physical Practice, a liberal arts course at The New School University, New York City. Cardona resides in Brooklyn, NY. Rick Murray (lighting designer) His lighting designs have been seen nationally and internationally since 1992 on the works of Kimberly Bartosik, Wally Cardona, Ralph Lemon, Benjamin Millepied, Yanira Castro, Luca Veggetti, Scotty Heron, Pepatian, Hot Mouth, Donna Uchizono, Risa Jaroslow and Dancers, Bill Young and Dancers, Dusan Tynek, Kriota Willburg, Dusan Tynek, Andrea Haenggi/AMDaT, and Paradigm Dance, among many others. He received 2001 Bessie Award for his work for Wally Cardona's Trance Territory. He also designed Sekou Sundiata's newest work for its New York premiere at the BAM Next Wave Festival. Prior to dedicating himself full time to design, he performed for 9 years with the award-winning Circus Amok. Community Entrypoint • Open Rehearsal : Observe Cardona and collaborators' process for work-in-development REALLY REAL. Discussion will follow. • April 9 @ 7 PM @ in Black Box Florida State University's Montgomery Hall • Free Event • Make Reservation |
