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Molissa Fenley In-Studio Dance Performance at BDC
Choreographer Molissa Fenley (NYC) has created over 85 dance works over the course of her career. Now aged 64, she is a dance icon and a true force of nature. This performance is a culmination of her artist residency at the Bloedel Reserve and Bainbridge Dance Center.
From Molissa:
"All of my choreography is about two things: Love and Nature.
While walking through the Bloedel Reserve and recognizing the healing and rejuvenating effects of nature, I am inspired by the immensity of variation, of plant adaptation and diversity. The essential, the sense of belonging generate a response of creativity. During my residency, I've worked on an ending for a suite of dances, Cosmati Variations, an ending I am calling a Coda in that it is a conclusion to the Variations but also points to another view of the overall structure."
Please join Molissa Fenley and company member Christiana Axelsen as they present an informal performance of excerpts from Cosmati Variations with the newly choreographed Coda.
Molissa Fenley
Molissa Fenley founded Molissa Fenley and Company in 1977. She grew up in Ibadan, Nigeria traveling there with her family in 1961, completing all of her early education there in International Schools and her last two years of high school in Spain. She returned to the US in 1971 to study dance at Mills College in Oakland, California. Upon graduation in 1975, she moved to New York. With her company, Molissa Fenley and Company, and as a soloist working in collaboration with visual artists and composers, she has performed throughout the United States, Canada, South America, Europe, Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Her work has been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, the Brooklyn Academy of Musics Next Wave Festival, the Dia Art Foundation, Jacobs Pillow, the Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, the New National Theater of Tokyo, The National Institute of Performing Arts in Seoul, The Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop/New York Live Arts. Both Cenotaph and State of Darkness were awarded a Bessie for Choreography in 1985 and 1988 respectively. Molissa has also set many works on ballet and contemporary dance companies, most recently for the Oakland Ballet (Redwood Park), Pacific Northwest Ballet, (State of Darkness), Repertory Dance Theatre (Energizer), Barnard/Columbia (Amdo), Robert Moses' Kin (The Vessel Stories), and the Seattle Dance Project, (Planes in Air). She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, has enjoyed residencies at Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Baryshnikov Art Center, Djerassi and is a twice recipient of awards from the Asian Cultural Council to visit Japan. Molissa is Professor of Dance at Mills College, in residence in the spring semesters, and often teaches choreographic and repertory workshops at other universities, most recently at Bennington, Barnard/Columbia and Hunter. Seagull Press/University of Chicago recently published Rhythm Field: The Dance of Molissa Fenley.
Christiana Axelsen
Christiana Axelsen has been dancing with Molissa Fenley since 2013. She assists Molissa in reconstructing major repertory works and has served as a rehearsal director setting Molissas work on Oakland Ballet, (Redwood Park), Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City, (Energizer), and Barnard/Columbia, (Amdo). She currently performs with Christopher Williams and Courtney Kantz and has previously danced with Korhan Basaran, Dylan Crossman, Beth Gill, Mana Kawamura, Raja Kelly, Michou Szabo, Pam Tanowitz, and zoe|juniper, among others. Her own work has been shown at Dance Roulette, The Invisible Dog, Mabou Mines, Brooklyn Art Exchange (NYC); the Space Upstairs (Pittsburgh), Velocity Dance Center (Seattle); Dance Initiative (Carbondale, Colorado); and Akbank Sanat Contemporary Arts Center (Istanbul). She has a BA in Dance and Geology from Mount Holyoke College and is the Director of Bainbridge Dance Center (Bainbridge, WA).
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UbicaciónBainbridge Dance Center (Ver)
844 Madison Avenue North
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
United States
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