Contact: Dave Pausch @ (608) 835-6590 April 16, 2002 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE "PAINKILLERS" AN EVENING OF NEW MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE BY CHOREOGRAPHER LI CHIAO-PING AND VISUAL ARTIST DOUGLAS ROSENBERG AT JOYCE SOHO, NEW YORK, MAY 24-26, 2002 AT 8:00 PM LI CHIAO-PING/DOUGLAS ROSENBERG's multimedia event titled "PAINKILLERS" are Friday, May 24th, Saturday, May 25th, and Sunday, May 26th at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $15. Please call the Joyce SoHo box office at (212) 334-7479. Joyce SoHo is located at 155 Mercer Street between Houston and Prince. Seating is limited, reservations highly recommended. The program will include premieres choreographed by Li Chiao-Ping, featuring performances by renowned dancers Heidi Latsky and Barbara Mahler, as well as members of LI CHIAO-PING DANCE. The New York Times has called Li and Rosenbergís work "momentousÖingeniousÖenigmatic." Spectator Magazine wrote "Li Chiao-Ping is taking post-modern dance to a new edge, one that pushes the metaphors of the body, form, and culture to the farthest reaches of strength and beauty." With original music by composer Stephen Vitiello (featured in the Whitney Biennial), and lighting design by Matthew Antaky, PAINKILLERS will take you on a relentless journey of the indomitable human spirit. As a choreographer/director, Li Chiao-Ping was named by Dance Magazine as one of the 25 "weíll be watching in 2001 and for years to come!" She has created, produced and performed over 50 works for the stage and screen throughout North and South America. Her collaborations with Douglas Rosenberg include dance films such as YELLOW RIVER (HWANG HO), DE LíEAU, and PERIPHERY and evening-length multimedia works such as ODYSSEY and VENOUS FLOW: STATES OF GRACE. Ms. Li has received numerous awards, grants, and honors, including grants from the NEA and choreographic fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and Scripps/ADF Humphrey-Weidman-Limon. Douglas Rosenberg is an interdisciplinary artist working in video, installation and performance, whose work has been shown both in the United States and internationally in museums, galleries, and festivals. He is well-known for his collaborations with Molissa Fenley, Sean Curran, Joe Goode, and Li Chiao-Ping. Recent honors include fellowships from, the Project on Death in America, funded by the Soros Foundation, the Wisconsin Arts Board (Fellowship in Performance) and was awarded an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (IZZIE) by the Bay Area Dance Coalition for his work with Ellen Bromberg on Singing Myself A Lullaby. His work has been funded by the NEA, the Zellerbach Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. His numerous residencies include: The Institute for Studies in The Arts, and the International Festival of Video Dance in Buenos Aires, Argentina and recently STARLAB Institute, Brussels and the Video Danza Mostra, Barcelona. Recent shows include, Video Festival Riccionne Teatro Televisione, Riccione, Italy, The Contemporary Art Museum in Buenos Aires, Dance on Camera Festival, NY, Mostra de Vídeo Dansa de Barcelona, Spain and Moving Pictures Festival of Video Dance, Toronto. His video dance work as recently screened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Stephen Vitiello (Composer) is an electronic musician and media artist who has collaborated with numerous artists since 1988, including Pauline Oliveros, Frances-Marie Uitti, Scanner, Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler, and Jem Cohen. He has been happily creating music for performances by Li Chiao-Ping and Douglas Rosenberg since 1991. Recent projects include a score for choreographer John Jasperse, working with White Oak Dance Project, presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music, June 2000. Stephen's newest CD is Scratchy Marimba (Sulfur/U.S.). He recently completed Tetrasomia, a web project for the Dia Center for the Arts (www.diacenter.org/vitiello). His audio installations have been presented at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, L.I.C., NY, The Project, NYC, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon. Matthew Antaky (Lighting Designer) has created scenic and lighting designs for the performing arts with many theater and dance companies. His designs have been seen throughout the United States as well as France, Canada, Italy, Mexico and the former Yugoslavia. His work includes lighting and visual collaborations with Lines Contemporary Dance Co., lighting designs for Dziga Vertov Performance Group, resident scenic and lighting designer with La Tania Flamenco Dance Co., Stephen Pelton Dance Theater and Lily Cai Chinese Dance Co. He has also created designs for Lizz Fain Dance Co., Diablo Ballet, Theater of Yugen, The Joe Goode Performance Group, and the Cabrillo Music Festival among many others. Mr. Antaky received the 1999 Isadora Duncan Award (and nominated for the 2000 season) for visual design. These performances were made possible, in part, by The Joyce Theater Foundation which owns and operates Joyce SoHo. The creation of Joyce SoHo was made possible by the magnanimous support of the LuEsther T. Mertz CharitableTrust. Joyce SoHo is supported by private funds from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, J..P. Morgan Chase, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Greenwall Foundation, The Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, The Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund established in The New York Community Trust by the Founders of the Readerís Digest Association, The Buhl Foundation, and by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. #### Mark Coniglio wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > In case you haven't seen it yet, there's a very nice performance > technology article on Wired News today. Check it out - you'll > recognize a few names! > Borg of the Dance > by Jenn Shreve > http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,51957,00.html- Scott > Sutherland Of course, the writer erroneously listed myself as the > creator of Image/ine... I've changed the page she linked to so that > people know that Tom deMeyer made it, not me. Cheers, > Mark -- > ================================================================ > Mark Coniglio, Artistic Co-Director | troika@panix.com > Troika Ranch Dance Theater | http://www.troikaranch.org > ================================================================
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