I Swallow your Silence
Featuring LEIMAY Fellows and Guest Artists
Cora Laszlo
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2021: OUTSIGHT
I Swallow your Silences is a dance offered to a garden; it germinates from haikus and their poetry of listening, their contemplative relation to the surrounding.
Documentation
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I Swallow your Silences is a dance offered to a garden. It germinates from haikus and their poetry of listening, their contemplative relation to the surrounding. It is a performance created specifically for the Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community Garden; nonetheless, it holds several other shrines of silences within the cities in its memory. Silences as other sounds. Sound as another silence. The relation of movement and sound will also happen between the dance of Cora Laszlo and the music of Wendy Eisenberg, an improvising musician who will play live music. Since both artists are deeply committed to improvisation, the performance will incorporate this porous and responsive state into the creation.
The dance asks where Earth can still rest in a silent—yet resonating—space. It is an invitation for people to see and feel the dance as they see and feel the coming and going of their being in the garden.
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2021.7000.6Year Created
2021Date Recorded
20210905Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Garden174 Suffolk St, NYC
Created and danced by Cora Laszlo
Music by Wendy Eisenberg
Cora Laszlo is a Brazilian dance-maker, improviser, teacher, and author. She holds a BA in Dance and a Licentiate degree in Dance Teaching from UNICAMP (Brazil), a specialization degree in the Klauss Vianna Technique from PUC-SP (Brazil), and a MA in Performance Studies at NYU. Cora has been based in New York since 2018, where she created her most recent dance solo, “December 32,” performed at the Movement Research at the Judson Church, Open Performance, and SESC (Brazil). She is currently a LEIMAY Arts in the Community Garden Commissioned Fellow. Cora has been the recipient of several Brazilian grants for artistic creation and has also established intermedial partnerships with international artists. Cora published in 2018 a peer-reviewed book on teaching dance for teenagers based on the
Klauss Vianna Technique—a Brazilian dance and somatic education technique in which she specializes. The book is titled Outros Caminhos de Dança: Técnica Klauss Vianna para Adolescentes e para Adolescer.
@coralaszlo
Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo-player, vocalist, songwriter, and composer. Along with performing in rock bands such as Editrix and Birthing Hips, Eisenberg works solo as a songwriter and an improviser equally. Wendy released the songs albums Dehiscence (2020) and Auto in 2020 to acclaim in such legacy publications as the Wire and the Washington Post. They are also an active writer on music, with pieces in Sound American and the Contemporary Music Review. They are lucky to have performed alongside Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Matt Mitchell, Miles Okazaki, Caroline Davis, Billy Martin, and many other luminaries, and to have released music on Ba Da Bing Records, VDSQ, Tzadik, Exploding in Sound, NNA, Feeding Tube, and Garden Portal.
Photos by Shige Moriya
OUTSIGHT is presented in partnership with New York Restoration Project 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.
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