Silent Beat
Featuring LEIMAY Fellows and Guest Artists
Denisa Musilova
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2021: OUTSIGHT
“My work lives between the worlds of silent film and dance. I create live introspective experiences where psychology is given physical form.”
Documentation
![Denisa Musilova [Archive]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Presenting-Series/OUTSIGHT/2021/Denisa-Musilova-Archive/i-knDpmwc/0/K2WB7CmfJGtk3BRQfRmsqNkCbH6jGvSZsN5HhqxxK/Th/DPH.PRG.2021.7000.3.2-Th.jpg)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kHS-LF9Q-_Y9b4W4XQIoK3ryFh9EH7jN/view
“Silent Beat” (solo, work-in-progress) is an intimate meeting with one woman. Through the authenticity of speaking about personal trauma to removing the voice, the work is an exploration of taking and losing control, as well as our collective humanity in regard to witnessing injustice. Inspired both by Eimear McBride novels and personal experiences, the work oscillates between a documentary and a performance. Fiction and reality intersect and force the performer to get encapsulated in myriad personal obsessions and fears amid the structured movement sequences. Once the voice is cut off, the stage slowly becomes a silent debris of one life….
Silent Beat’s work-in-progress showing was presented at The Tank, a New York City home for emerging artists.
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2021.7000.3Year Created
2021Date Recorded
20210903Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company70 East 4th Street, NYC
Choreographed & Performed by Denisa Musilova
with a guest artist: Maya Steinbruner
Denisa Musilova (choreographer/performer) has collaborated with Pavel Zustiak’s Palissimo, Deganit Shemy & Company, Bill Young & Colleen Thomas Dance, LEIMAY, Tami Stronach Dance, Miřenka Čechová, Ko Murobushi, Netta Yerushalmy and Yukio Waguri, among others. Denisa has choreographed “Quixote” a music-theatre-dance piece directed by Mark DeChiazza and composed by Amy Beth Kirsten, commissioned by Peak Performances at MSU and Kristen’s “”Savior,”” which premiered at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in April 2018. She presented a short work for Susan Marshall’s Prototypes and performed at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Gala 2019. In the Czech Republic, Denisa has been working as a guest choreographer for the Horacké Theater Jihlava, where she has staged multiple plays, danced in the production of “Viva La Mama” at the National Theater in Prague, as well as collaborated on new choreographies for DEKKADANCERS, Theater Bílá Holubice, Tantehorse and Theatre Potoň. Denisa’s authorial works have been co-produced and presented at NY Butoh Festival, SOAK Festival NY, Czech Center in New York, Triskelion Arts, 92 Street Y, and LATEA Theater, Triskelion Arts, La MaMa, New Dance Alliance, Next@Graham, Venuše ve Švehlovce Theater and Theater Akropolis Prague.
Photos by Shige Moriya
OUTSIGHT is presented in partnership with New York Restoration Project and and Alpha Omega Theatrical Dance Company/SHARING THE STAGE.
LEIMAY works and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya Artistic and General Co-Directors
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