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Doing It - a WORKSHOP with Ishmael Houston-Jones
Workshop with Ishmael Houston-Jones
Saturday, November 17th, 2012
1-3pm
workshop will take place onstage at
REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
$15 in advance, $20 walk-in
Doing It
What is your first impulse? Can you trust it? What happens when the judge falls asleep? Can sight be a handicap? Can you know too much? This is a workshop about Composition.
Ishmael Houston-Jones is a choreographer, author, performer, teacher, and arts activist. His improvised dance and text work has been performed in New York City, across the United States, in Europe, Canada, Australia and Latin America. Houston-Jones' Nowhere, Now Here was commissioned for Mordine and Company in Chicago in spring 2001 and Specimens was commissioned for Headlong Dance Theater in Philadelphia in 1998. In 1997 he was the choreographer for Nayland Blake's Hare Follies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. From 1995-2000 he was part of the improvised trio Unsafe/Unsuited with Keith Hennessy and Patrick Scully. In 1990 he and writer Dennis Cooper presented The Undead at the Los Angeles Festival of the Arts. In 1989 he collaborated with filmmaker Julie Dash on the video Relatives, which was aired nationally on the PBS series Alive From Offf-Center (Alive TV). In 1984 Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award for their Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders. In 2010 Performance Space 122 and the New Museum supported the reconstruction of Houston-Jones' 1985/86 collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Chris Cochrane, THEM. The piece has since been presented at the American Realness festival (New York, NY), Springdance (Utrecht, NL), Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), and TanzImAugust (Berlin, Germany). The reconstruction of THEM received a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie" award in 2011. Houston-Jones is currently touring with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People in And lose the name of action.
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Performing at REDCAT, Thursday, November 15, 2012 to Sunday, November 18, 2012
Chris Cochrane, Dennis Cooper and Ishmael Houston-Jones THEM
"Works this good - this necessary - don't come around very often."-The New York Times
"Unabashedly gay and gritty... A cathartic restaging."- Artforum
This powerful re-staging of THEM, an incendiary work of dance theater that premiered in 1986, won a coveted Bessie Award last year for "bringing an intensely visceral exploration of male identity in the time of AIDS to life with beauty, power, conviction and passion." Conceived and directed by choreographer Ishmael Houston-Jones with writer Dennis Cooper and composer Chris Cochrane, THEM takes an unblinking look at the lives of young gay men in a harrowing, uncertain time. The original collaborators are joined onstage by six young male performers, amplifying themes of youth and survival, while transmitting a legacy of loss with ferocious energy and unforgettable imagery. Propelled by Cochrane's hard-driving live score and Cooper's ever-provocative texts, the dancers take to the action with menacing force.
Funded in part with generous support from the National Performance Network (NPN) Performance Residency Program. For more information, visit npnweb.org.
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LocationREDCAT (View)
631 West 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States
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| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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