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New York Live Arts announces its 2019-20 Fresh Tracks artists: Anh Vo, Annie Heath, Jordan Lloyd, Kayla Hamilton and Stuart B Meyers.
One of New York Live Arts’ signature New Work Development Programs, Fresh Tracks is a season-long residency and performance opportunity designed for early career artists who explore hybrid and movement-based work. Fresh Track artists receive studio residencies, a professionally-produced shared evening bill in the New York Live Arts theater, professional development workshops, and extensive support from Live Arts communications, production and programming staff.
This year’s Fresh Tracks artists will present work in the New York Live Arts Theater, December 13-14 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $20. The residency program culminates with in-progress showings of new work developed throughout the residency in Live Arts’ Third Floor Studios May 29-30, 2019 at 6pm.
2019-2020 Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program Artists
Anh Vo is a Vietnamese choreographer, dancer, theorist, and activist. They create dances and produce texts about pornography and queer relations, about being and form, about identity and abstraction, about history and its colonial reality. Currently based in Brooklyn, they earned their degrees in Performance Studies from Brown University (BA) and New York University (MA). As a writer, they focus on experimental practices in contemporary dance and pornography.
Annie Heath | Heath in Progress is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed original works by RoseAnne Spradlin, Doug LeCours, Gabriella Carmichael, and Pavel Machuca-Zavarzin. As a dance-maker, Heath wonders about capacity—a cavity in her archived mind that needs filling. She fumbles with identity as a portal to generate fabricated memories and dreamlike, meditative atmospheres. Maybe roots can flourish in detachment?
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd is a dance artist emanating from Brooklyn. Originally from Albany, NY, Lloyd graduated from The College at Brockport where he performed works by Maura Keefe and Alexandra Beller. He is a part time lecturer at Rutgers University and on faculty at Mark Morris Dance Center. He is a 2019 Artist in Residence at The Center for Performance Research and has received developmental support through AUNTS at MANA Contemporary. Since landing in New York City he has shown work at Judson Memorial Church, The Center for Performance Research and Brooklyn Studios for Dance.
Kayla Hamilton is an artist and educator born and raised in the small of Texarkana, Texas and now residing in Bronx, NY. Kayla earned a BA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and an MS Ed in Special Education from Hunter College. She is a member of the 2017 Bessie-award winning collective of the skeleton architecture, the future of our world's. Kayla’s work focuses on collaboration with other artists from various disciplines to explore the intersection of race and disability. When Kayla is not dancing, she's a special education teacher at the Highbridge Green School who loves to watch Law and Order on Hulu.
Stuart B Meyers is a Queer, Jewish artist. He creates Dance Theatre, Film and Jew-ish Events. Stuart has performed his own work in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia & Tel Aviv, and he’s received grants from the Berlin Cultural Senate and the Brooklyn Arts Council. He's currently touring his Queer & Dreamy Shabbat Dinner Delight & Extravaganza *The Shabbos Queen*, developing “BE YOUR OWN YENTA: your guide to becoming a Matchmaker,” and creating a new dance work in New Dance Alliance’s “Lift-Off” Residency. Stuart's a 2018 danceWEB Scholar, a hypnotist, and studies dreams, imagery and Jewish texts through a Kabbalistic Lineage.
About New York Live Arts
Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts produces and presents dance, music and theater performances in its 20,000 square-foot home, including a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square-foot studios. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people; it supports the continuing professional development of performing artists. New York Live Arts serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; it is the company’s sole producer, providing support and the environment to originate innovative and challenging new work for the Company and New York’s creative community.
Funding
Support is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Con Edison, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/NYC the Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The MAP Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Metropolitan Capital Bancorp, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York Community Trust, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and William Penn Foundation.
New York Live Arts is supported by public funds from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council with special thanks to Council Member Corey Johnson, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
New York Live Arts announces its 2019-20 Fresh Tracks artists: Anh Vo, Annie Heath, Jordan Lloyd, Kayla Hamilton and Stuart B Meyers.
One of New York Live Arts’ signature New Work Development Programs, Fresh Tracks is a season-long residency and performance opportunity designed for early career artists who explore hybrid and movement-based work. Fresh Track artists receive studio residencies, a professionally-produced shared evening bill in the New York Live Arts theater, professional development workshops, and extensive support from Live Arts communications, production and programming staff.
This year’s Fresh Tracks artists will present work in the New York Live Arts Theater, December 13-14 at 7:30pm. Tickets start at $20. The residency program culminates with in-progress showings of new work developed throughout the residency in Live Arts’ Third Floor Studios May 29-30, 2019 at 6pm.
2019-2020 Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program Artists
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| Anh Vo |
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| Annie Heath |
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| Jordan Demetrius Lloyd |
Jordan Demetrius Lloyd is a dance artist emanating from Brooklyn. Originally from Albany, NY, Lloyd graduated from The College at Brockport where he performed works by Maura Keefe and Alexandra Beller. He is a part time lecturer at Rutgers University and on faculty at Mark Morris Dance Center. He is a 2019 Artist in Residence at The Center for Performance Research and has received developmental support through AUNTS at MANA Contemporary. Since landing in New York City he has shown work at Judson Memorial Church, The Center for Performance Research and Brooklyn Studios for Dance.
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| Kayla Hamilton |
Kayla Hamilton is an artist and educator born and raised in the small of Texarkana, Texas and now residing in Bronx, NY. Kayla earned a BA in Dance from Texas Woman’s University and an MS Ed in Special Education from Hunter College. She is a member of the 2017 Bessie-award winning collective of the skeleton architecture, the future of our world's. Kayla’s work focuses on collaboration with other artists from various disciplines to explore the intersection of race and disability. When Kayla is not dancing, she's a special education teacher at the Highbridge Green School who loves to watch Law and Order on Hulu.
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| Stuart B Meyers |
Stuart B Meyers is a Queer, Jewish artist. He creates Dance Theatre, Film and Jew-ish Events. Stuart has performed his own work in Berlin, New York, Philadelphia & Tel Aviv, and he’s received grants from the Berlin Cultural Senate and the Brooklyn Arts Council. He's currently touring his Queer & Dreamy Shabbat Dinner Delight & Extravaganza *The Shabbos Queen*, developing “BE YOUR OWN YENTA: your guide to becoming a Matchmaker,” and creating a new dance work in New Dance Alliance’s “Lift-Off” Residency. Stuart's a 2018 danceWEB Scholar, a hypnotist, and studies dreams, imagery and Jewish texts through a Kabbalistic Lineage.
About New York Live Arts
Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York City, New York Live Arts produces and presents dance, music and theater performances in its 20,000 square-foot home, including a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 square-foot studios. New York Live Arts offers an extensive range of participatory programs for adults and young people; it supports the continuing professional development of performing artists. New York Live Arts serves as home base for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; it is the company’s sole producer, providing support and the environment to originate innovative and challenging new work for the Company and New York’s creative community.
Funding
Support is provided by the Arnhold Foundation, Con Edison, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, Dance/NYC the Ford Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Marta Heflin Foundation, Alice Lawrence Foundation, Samuel M. Levy Family Foundation, The MAP Fund, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Metropolitan Capital Bancorp, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York Community Trust, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Scherman Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and William Penn Foundation.
New York Live Arts is supported by public funds from Humanities New York, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council with special thanks to Council Member Corey Johnson, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.