Daniel CLifton

 

Artists in Residence: SPLICE

 

Daniel Clifton/Mei Yin-Ng | MEI-BE WHATever

 

December 3-6

 

Performance Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday matinee at 3:00pm

 

Ticket Prices: $17, ($12 members, $14 students)

 

 

 

Multi-media savvy artists Clifton and Ng present two world premieres.

 

 

 

*There will be a preview of this performance Tuesday, November 17 at 12:15pm in DNA’s 2nd Floor Gallery. A brief Q&A session will follow.

 

 

 

Daniel Clifton presents (Currently Untitled)

 

Choreographed by Daniel Clifton

 

Performed by Daniel Clifton, Sarah Holcman, Christopher Lancaster, and Kathryn Logan

 

Live music performed and composed collaboratively by Daniel Clifton, Sarah Holcman, Christopher Lancaster, and Kathryn Logan

 

Written collaboratively by Daniel Clifton, Sarah Holcman, and Kathryn Logan

 

 

 

“I have wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others. Una’s death cut the earth from under Samuel’s feet and opened his defended keep and let in old age. On the other hand Liza, who surely loved her family as deeply as did her husband, was not destroyed or warped. Her life continued evenly. She felt sorrow but survived it.” John Steinbeck East of Eden

 

 

 

Daniel Clifton’s residency was made possible, in part, by a generous gift from Joanna Fields.

 

 

 

Daniel Clifton, based in Brooklyn, NY, is from Niceville, FL, where he spent many years writing and playing music in punk and jazz bands. His dances have been presented at Dancenow/NYC, Dance Off, Hollins University, Florida State University, The Kitchen, FAUT BRULER POUR BRILLER/YOU GOT TO BURN TO SHINE, The A.W.A.R.D. Show!, ADF, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dancespace, North Carolina School of the Arts, and WAX. Clifton has taught at DNA, Lehman College, Hollins University, Sarah Lawrence College, North Carolina School of the Arts, the American Dance Festival and the Korean Dance Festival. Clifton has danced for Tere O’Connor Dance, Martha Clarke, nicholas leichter dance. While in New York City he has also worked with Julia Ritter Performance Group, photographer Tony Jones, visual artist Tunga, comedian Pam Ann, and the New York Historical Society. Clifton earned his MFA in Dance from Hollins University/ADF and his BFA in Dance from Florida State University.

 

 

 

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Mei-Yin Ng / MEI-BE WHATever presents Mentallic (Mental+ Metallic)

 

Choreographed by Mei-Yin Ng in collaboration with the dancers

 

Performed by Kelly Buwalda, Cassandra Taylor, Kathleen Kelley, Mei-Yin Ng, and more

 

Soundscape Designed & Performed by Matt Rocker

 

Video Design by Zbyszek Bzymek

 

 

 

Mentallic (Mental+ Metallic) utilizes the phantom limb syndrome as an initial site of conceptual research into body/mind connection and its interpretation of sensation, including the sensuousness of longing and the simultaneous space of illusion and physical reality. Dancers' movements synthesize with live and recorded video images and sounds producing "live dance cinema" where the realms of physical and the psyche interact in constant dialogue.

 

 

 

This performance is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency with additional support from New York Foundation for the Arts.

 

 

 

MEI-BE WHATever sustains an ongoing collaborative laboratory for the investigation of new dance/art ideas, processes and forms that challenges the concept of dance and seeks a wider dance/art and public audience. The company creates mixed-discipline works that fuse contemporary dance with various forms of media, including video (live and recorded) and specially-designed sounds or soundscapes. Staging a variety of multi-media events, MEI-BE WHATever explores the ever-changing relationship between the body and the technology, the real and the virtual world.

 

 

 

Founded in 2003 by Mei-Yin Ng (Artistic Director/Choreographer), the company has been presented internationally at Leap Festival 05 in Liverpool, UK; IFFC Festival in Barcelona, Spain; SESC Festival of Arts in Sao Paulo, Brazil; International Choreographer’s Platform in Almada, Portugal; Festival de la Cite, and Lausanne, Switzerland among others. MEI-BE WHATever has performed domestically in the USA at venues such as PS122, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Movement Research at the Judson Church, La Mama and Joyce SoHo. Ms. Ng was a selected participant in the 2004 Multimedia Forum of the Monaco Dance Forum, the 2007 5th Pointe to Point Asia-Europe Dance Forum, an Artist in Residence of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a recipient of a 2004 NYFA Choreography Fellowship, 2009 NYFA Interdisciplinary Fellowship and 2009 NYSCA Individual Artist Program.

 

 

 

DNA’s Artist in Residence (AIR) program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA); National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts.

 

 

 

 

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