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I Love Dan Flavin

Choreography: Laura Peterson
Running Time: 45 minutes
For 4 dancers

“Deep and funny” 
- Tom Phillips DanceViewTimes

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Eun Jung Gonzalez is a native of Korea. She grew up learning Korean Traditional Dance before she moved to the US in 1991. Upon graduating from North Carolina School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance, she has had numerous opportunities to work with companies and collaborators, including Allyson Green Dance, Sean Curran Co., Pulso Cía. de Danza (Mexico City), Laura Peterson Choreography, et AL, She has performed internationally throughout Europe, Asia, and North America. Recently she presented her collaborative work, Tras Lados with Pulso Cía. de Danza at Danspace Project's Global Exchange series. In the summer of 2006 she taught in Mexico City and North Carolina School of the Arts.

Christopher Hutchings is a dancer and choreographer. In 2006 he brought his new work to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. His work has been produced in Germany, Taiwan, and the US. He has worked as Director’s Assistant for Ballet New York. In 2003, he traveled to Moscow as Assistant Choreographer for Konstantine Uralsky’s work for Ballet Moskva. He holds a BFA in dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Christopher has performed with Connecticut Ballet, Jody Oberfelder, Opus Dance Theater, Virginia Ballet, and Second Wind Dance. Chris has taught in Long Island, Connecticut, and was a guest artist at Loyola University. Chris has performed with Laura Peterson since 2001.

Kathryn Harris holds BFA in Modern Dance from Virginia Commonwealth University. She was a member of Starr Foster Dance Project for 6 years. Katie has taught and performed in Virginia, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and North Carolina. Her work has been performed in Richmond at Grace Street Theater, Richmond Choreographer’s Showcase, et AL. She is 2005 recipient of the NYLA Choreography Award.

Jorge Cousineau (visual designer), born in Germany, is a sound & theater designer. 1997 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Dresden. Since moving to Philadelphia he has been technical director of KUMQUAT Dance Center, Group Motion Company, Paule Turner, Rennie Harris PureMovement, Carol Brown & Melanie Stewart Dance et AL. His company SubCircle has made multimedia performance work since 1997 (www.subcircle.org) He has designed for Pig Iron Theater Company & Arden Theater Co. He has received a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Sound Design, a 2004 Independence Foundation fellowship. Jorge was awarded the 2004 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Theatre Artist.

Charles Youssef (costumes) Having traveled the world at an early age, Charles draws upon his eclectic experiences to produce modern, inventive fashion and costume designs. He currently works as a full time designer for Ralph Lauren, and has designed for the Perry Ellis Runway Collection, Izod, and Mark Richards Collections. He is a graduate of the Parsons School of Design where currently teaches as an adjunct professor. Charles has built a partnership with Laura Peterson Choreography as well as Christopher Hutchings Concepts and continues his exploration of the human body as an art form.

 

  

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Before the word “digitized” existed. In the early 1980’s, when computers were new, we thought we were embarking on an age of technology that would result in supersonic cars, colonizing mars, and a robotic automated world. Fax machines changed everything. The word-processor was to be the ultimate in efficiency. Atari & Casio were brand new and we were filled with hope for this hi-tech future. The dreams formed 25 years ago have since faded. Technology has become a product; we shop online for tiny cell phones and MP3 players. Computers haven’t saved the world.


I Love Dan Flavin is an ode to the slightly more innocent decade of those new wave futurists. Laura Peterson Choreography is developing a site-specific work designed for a proscenium, theater, gallery or museum examining the traditional concepts of dance as they relate to exhibition & performance spaces. Minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933-1996) used variously colored florescent tubes of light as material for his installations beginning in the 1960’s, which are the inspiration for this piece. Performed to the early techno music of Kraftwerk I Love Dan Flavin references the artist’s consistency of materials (i.e. fluorescent lights) and attention to space throughout its vocabulary and composition.



Dan Flavin untitled (to a man, George McGovern) 2(1972)


Work-in-progress sections have been performed as a staged version since February 2006 at Joe’s Pub, Dixon Place & an American Cancer Society Benefit curated by Ji-Yaang Kim. Laura Peterson Choreography is currently creating the link between the staged dance sections and installation version of I Love Dan Flavin. Integral to this concept is the ability of the work to adapt to the environment in which it is performed. I Love Dan Flavin is retro-futurism. (See Press page for reviews of the work-in-progress.)