UPCOMING IN 2008
June 8, 2008 7pm at Dance Theater Workshop 219 W. 19th St.- Open Studio performance - we will show the first draft of our newest collaboration with Doug Silver
June 16 2008 - Kinesis Project is hosting 3 Silent Rave flash mob moments in Seattle. Check back for where to show up with your iPod and boogie!
August 2008 - Melissa has been honored to be one of 10 choreographers invited to the Dance Omi residency of at the Omi International Arts Center
Sept. 14, 2008 - Kinesis Project will again be performing all over Battery Park's labyrinth and Bosque Gardens
Sept. 22, 2008 LAC Artists Salon at University Settlement
Sept. 27, 2008 Kinesis Project is performing HER (text in a box) again (twice in one week) in front of LaMaMa ETC at 1pm
2007
September 1, 2007, 2pm & 4pm- Kinesis Project will be seen performing in Battery Park's beautiful Bosque Gardens
September 7&8, 2007 - Kinesis Project will perform Right Before You Fell in Philadelphia at the Peformance GaragePhilly Fringe Festival (click here for info and here for tickets) as part of the
September 29, 2007 - Altered Forces
Estrogenius/Women in Motion 2007 at Morocco's Studios 6 W 20th St. NYC
PRESENTING: Marta Renzi/Project Company, Darrah Carr Dance, Jennifer Wright Cook, Wendy Blum, Odonata Dance Project, Macshula Hill, Janessa Clark/Kilterbox, Zoe Klein/Paradizo Duo, Lynn Neuman/Artichoke Dance & Kinesis Project ......
Past Performances
July 30 - August 2 2007 - Kinesis Project performs the development work, Gull(ability) at Manhattan Theatre Source as part of the "Straight from the Source" Summer Showcase
Aug 27 & 28, 2007 - Guest Artist in Andrew Frank and Doug Silver's Greenwich Village Follies at Manhattan Theatre Source
March 22 - 25, 2007 Kinesis Project dance theatre will be performing Right Before You Fell at Merce Cunningham Studio, 55 Bethune St.
for reservations call 212-696-6787 or go to theatermania.com
Perfomances in 2006
ESTROGENIUS 2006 - WOMEN IN MOTION: LIGHT
Manhattan Theatre Source, Estrogenius & Kinesis Project offer Women in Motion 2006
Promising to be the most exciting performance yet -- In its 7th year, Women in Motion is celebrating by moving to a larger space at Morocco's School of Middle Eastern Dance at 6 West 20th Street --
Our stage will be graced by:
Lindsey Deitz-Marchant & Jason Marchant
Jennifer Nugent / Nugent +Matteson
Ezra Caldwell/The Leverage Group (a dance film)
Patrick Lacey (2 Honorary Chicks!)
Jule Jo Ramirez
Jessica Bonenfant/Odonata Dance Project
Jennifer Harmer
and Sara Joel
Footprints in Paint
Collaborations with Painter Anita Cimino
Anita's paintings depict dancers in textured "anywhere" worlds. Her inspirations are often movement based...
The Kinesis Project is beginnning work to bring the images to life, discovering what the stories are behind our own frames.
Past Events in 2006
Right Before You Fell ....
Kinesis Project dance theatre at Manhattan Theatre Source
July 14 @7pm and 15th @ 8pm - for reservations call (212) 501-4751
2 Full evenings with the Kinesis Project at Manhattan Theatre Source -- Including the newest additions to our company repertory -- each one is part of a larger plan for next Spring!
Descriptions of the pieces below:
Soon - what is the physical experience of our minds when we don't say what we need to say? Why don't we say it? In a playful experiment of elephants and unsaid sheepishness, three women parry toss cover up the thoughts that might be better ....said.
I should have said the other thought A woman is alone at her desk, writing in a journal....as she begins to chronicle the events of the day, her journal comes to life....pages zip backwards, and the words un-write themselves.
Principles Pleasure is, well, personal. Everyone has their own idea of how to create is and where it comes from. That's all I'll tell you.
177 MacDougal St. between W8th and Waverly take the A,C,E,B,D,F,or V to W.4th Street Station
For detailed train or walking directions go here
3LD Theatre
80 Greenwich St, South of Rector St.
DEAD CITY by Shelia Callaghan (Sheila's website...)
June 1-25
Kinesis Project dates
June 2 Post-Performance &16th (Bloomsday!) Pre-Performance
Paired in specific evenings with Sheila Callaghan's riff on James Joyce's Ulysses, Zoe Bowick and Jared Cardon will perform their duet My Steps Toward You, Kinesis Project's riff on Homer's Odyssey -
Produced by New Georges, Dead City will be the third production in a brand-new theater: 3-Legged Dog's 3LD Art & Technology Center, at Greenwich and Rector streets in Lower Manhattan. It's the first new cultural institution to open in the process of revitalizing Lower Manhattan. So it's the perfect venue for a play that at its heart is a celebration of the city.
Strangely enough, both the playwright and the choreogrpaher realized during their seperate processes that they were responding to the tradgedy of Sept 11 by celebrating their City and expressions of its epic power.
For reservations click here
Successful Performances in 2005
An Evening of Work by The Kinesis Project
produced by Six Figures Theatre Company's
Artists of Tomorrow Festival
Performances at The West End Theatre at 86th Street
September 29, 30 and October 2 2005
Any Distance Home will include popular works in repetory and will be the World Premiere of My Steps Towards You - based on the final moments of the Odyssey Performed by Gina Bashour, Zoe Bowick, Jared Cardon and Melissa Riker - with Blair Boone, Benjiman Oyzon, Ali Rodell and Reiko Yamanaka
for more information go to: www.sixfigures.com
Estrogenius 2005 at Manhattan Theatre Source
Saturday, October 8, 2005
177 MacDougal Street (between W.8th St and Waverly)
Women in Motion – Reflect-ed
Dance evenings of incredible talent Choreography by:
Lindsey Dietz Marchant
Natalie Burgess
Erin Reck
Lynn Nueman/Artichoke Dance
Elise Knudsen
Jule Jo Ramirez
and Patrick Lacey
Produced by Estrogenius with the Kinesis Project for more information go to: estrogenius.org
Theatre Choreography
deathvariations
by Jon Fosse - Directed and translated by Sarah Cameron Sunde
The Asphalt Kiss
by Nelson Rodreguiez
Directed by Sarah Camerson Sunde
Choreography by Melissa Riker
at the 59E59 Theatre
59 East 59th Street
first performed in 1961 this powerful and passionate play points at Brazilian machismo and the demands placed on individuals to fall in line with social mores.
Previews begin October 6, 2005