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FIVE POINTS-complete videos

Here are all the videos from the FIVE POINTS project in one post. The evening went: 1. After Image 2. This, That or the Other 3. Summer Collection 2012 -intermission- 4. Views from the Inside 5. The Substance of Things Unseen

FIVE POINTS with Pulse and TAKE Dance

December 17, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studios, NYC

Music: Joshua Shneider, Jamie Begian, Melissa Dunphy, JC Sanford, Joseph C. Phillips Jr.

Choreography: Kristen Arnold, Milan Misko, Takehiro Ueyama, Jill Echo, Kile Hotchkiss

Video: Yuko Takebe

After Image

This, That, or the Other Summer Collection 2012 Views from the Inside The Substance of Things Unseen

The Substance of Things Unseen

The Substance of Things Unseen from FIVE POINTS with Pulse and TAKE Dance

December 17, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studios, NYC

Music: Unlimited by Joseph C. Phillips Jr.

Choreography: Kile Hotchkiss

Video: Yuko Takebe

Views from the Inside

Views from the Inside from FIVE POINTS with Pulse and TAKE Dance

December 17, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studios, NYC

Music: Views from the Inside by JC Sanford

Choreography: Jill Echo

Video: Yuko Takebe

Summer Collection 2012

Summer Collection 2012 from FIVE POINTS with Pulse and TAKE Dance

December 17, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studios, NYC

Music: Misfire by Melissa Dunphy

Choreography: Takehiro Ueyama

Video: Yuko Takebe

This, That, or the Other

This, That or the Other from FIVE POINTS with Pulse and TAKE Dance

December 17, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studios, NYC

Music: Colorblind by Jaime Begian

Choreography: Milan Misko

Video: Yuko Takebe

 

After Image

After Image from FIVE POINTS with Pulse and TAKE Dance

December 17, 2011, Merce Cunningham Studios, NYC

Music: Skipping Over Damaged Areas by Joshua Shneider

Choreography: Kristen Arnold

Video: Yuko Takebe

FIVE POINTS success

Last night ended a quite successful run of the project FIVE POINTS with Pulse and Take Dance! Thanks to all that came to Merce Cunningham Studios to fill the house each night. Here's a good write-up with photos from Oberon's Grove, also here's a link to an interview I gave to Sequenza 21 about FIVE POINTS.

(also posted at http://numinousmusic.blogspot.com/2011/12/s-wonderful-five-points.html)

Photo by: Kokyat

All systems a go

We reached our Kickstarter goal, so thank you to all who are helping to make our Pulse-TAKE Dance collaboration happen. Now, if you haven't bought your tickets, they are selling fast so you might want to click this link so you don't miss out...

FIVE POINTS
TAKE Dance + Pulse: Part II 

FEATURING 

COMPOSERS: Jamie Begian, Melissa Dunphy, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., JC Sanford, Joshua Shneider

MUSICIANS: Hannah Levinson, Jacob Garchik, Ana Milosavljevic, Chris Reza, Mariel Roberts

CHOREOGRAPHERS: Takehiro Ueyama, Jill Echo, Kile Hotchkiss, Kristen Arnold, Milan Misko

DANCERS:  Kristen Arnold, Brynt Beitman, John Eirich, Jillian Hervey, Kile Hotchkiss, Gina Ianni, Cliinton Edward Martin, Sarah Mettin, Milan Misko, Nana Tsuda Misko, Lynda Senisi, Kristi Tornga and Marie Zvosec.
Where: Merce Cunningham Dance Studios, 55 Bethune Street, NYC
When: DEC 15-16 @ 9:00PM

DEC 17th @ 8:00PM

Tickets: $20/$15 Students & Seniors        
Can purchase tickets in advance only, HERE

We're back...Pulse & TAKE Dance with FIVE POINTS

Pulse will present "FIVE POINTS" on December 15-17, 2011 at the historic Merce Cunningham
Studios in NYC. Tickets are ONLY available in advance, which you can get here. Our second collaboration with Take Dance, FIVE POINTS "showcases an omnivorous collection of 'synaesthesia', i.e. an exploration of the potential mash-up of the senses including touch, sound, vision, etc…" Representing five distinct points of view, each piece is by five different choreographers of TAKE Dance (Kristen Arnold, Jill Echo, Kile Hotchkiss, Milan Misko, and Takehiro Ueyama) set to new post-classical/jazz music by the five different composers of Pulse (Jamie Begian, Melissa Dunphy, Joseph C. Phillips, Jr., JC Sanford, and Joshua Shneider) performed by five musicians of Pulse (Chris Reza, woodwinds; Ana Milosavljevic, violin/Viper; Hannah Levinson, viola; Mariel Roberts, cello; Jacob Garchik, accordion, laptop, trombone).

From our press release: 

FIVE POINTS is a true marriage of contemporary dance and music inspired by the senses and synesthesia – people’s different perceptions on reality.  In Summer Collection 2012, choreographer Takehiro Ueyama pairs up with composer Melissa Dunphy to examine the deceiving sense of vision.  Influenced by Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” painting, it takes a look at the blurry line between beauty and terror.  Choreographer Kile Hotchkiss brings together six female dancers in The Substance of Things Unseen, an exploration of the science of Cymatics, the visual and physical impact of sound upon matter.  The music of Joseph C.Phillips, Jr., creates "adventitious synesthesia", altering personal perceptions and amplifying an integrated state of mind.

The third piece, From Over Here, brings together choreographer Milan Misko and composer Jamie Begian.  Instead of probing the actual senses, they’re probing the brain and how it processes sensations out of normal context such as mystery, confusion and enlightening analogies.  In Views from the Inside, composer JC Sanford questions the universal truth through the usage of a “sonic palette.”  Staged for seven dancers and choreographed by Jill Echo, the recurring ‘sonic palette’ evolves, leaving the dancers to question their own individual truths. Finally, unclearly departed investigates phantom limb syndrome - the sensation of an amputated or missing limb still being attached to the body and capable of moving.  Featuring choreography by KristenArnold and music by Joshua Shneider, the piece delves into the intersection of science and art and the aspects of human resilience in response to a physical change. 

We need your help to make this project happen. We have a Kickstarter fundraising campaign that we are trying to raise $4000 to allow us to realize this incredible project. Hope you can help and/or hope to see you at one of the shows!

Five Points: Pulse & TAKE Dance

Help us make this project happen, see our Kickstarter page to donate. We need your help!

FIVE POINTS
TAKE Dance + Pulse: Part II 

FEATURING 

COMPOSERS: Jamie Begian, Melissa Dunphy, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., JC Sanford, Joshua Shneider

MUSICIANS: Hannah Levinson, Jacob Garchik, Ana Milosavljevic, Chris Reza, Mariel Roberts

CHOREOGRAPHERS: Takehiro Ueyama, Jill Echo, Kile Hotchkiss, Kristen Arnold, Milan Misko

DANCERS:  Kristen Arnold, Brynt Beitman, John Eirich, Jillian Hervey, Kile Hotchkiss, Gina Ianni, Cliinton Edward Martin, Sarah Mettin, Milan Misko, Nana Tsuda Misko, Lynda Senisi, Kristi Tornga and Marie Zvosec.

Where: Merce Cunningham Dance Studios, 55 Bethune Street
When: DEC 15-16 @ 9:00PM, DEC 17th @ 8:00PM

Tickets: $20/$15 Students & Seniors        
Purchase tickets HERE