Performances for Mature Audiences
Coming JUNE 2007...
The long awaited new adult performance
LOST ARROYOS
Photos by Andrew Walker
LOST ARROYOS
Written by Mara McEwin
Choreographed by Emily Bunning
PREMIERE
June 7-9th and 13-16th, 2007 @ 8:30pm
June 17th @ 4:30pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Sixth Ave.
Between Spring and Broome enter on Dominick
Tickets: $18 visit www.here.org or call 212.352.3101
Other Info: 212.715.1914
Subway:
C/E to Spring St.; 1/9 to Houston St.; N/R to Prince St.
Lost Arroyos, a new original play told through theater, dance and film, follows several drifting American characters as they discover a world of cultural struggles, race boundaries and blurred social identities.
Written by Mara McEwin
Choreographed by Emily Bunning
Film by Brent Hankins and Kinetiscope
Costumes by Patti Gilstrap
Lighting by Jim French
Performed by Emily Bunning, Bryan Campo, Sergio Fuenzalida, Kristy Kuhn, Mara McEwin, Alex Perez, Elise Smith, and Sarah Young
This program is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program and by the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
This production is being presented through HERE’s Supported Artist Program, which provides artists with subsidized space and equipment, as well as technical and administrative support.
Funding has been made possible by the Puffin Foundation
DESCRIPTION:
Told through contemporary modern dance, imaginative parallel narratives, videography, poetry, and witty dialogue, the play begins as Kye (played by Mara McEwin), a writer has recently moved to the heart of an unknown Latino Southwestern community. Kye soon meets the neighborhood watch, Diamond (Sergio Fuenzalida), who guides her away from her own pre-conceived notions of Hispanic culture, and into a world that is diverse, rich and gentle. The dancers (Kristy Kuhn, Emily Bunning and Sarah Young) play a chorus of Spanish speaking children, vibrantly filling the stage with playful gestures of dance and sound, often intertwining Diamond and Kye within their movements. The film footage journeys audiences on a visual quest, intertwining both the play’s story and a moving Southwestern landscape. On the other side of the Rio Grande, Kye’s best friend, Ovid, a would-be film star, has lost his own world to a painful cycle of crystal methamphetamines. Ovid (Alex Perez) hitchhikes to Tennessee to follow his favorite country musicians and live outside the Grand Ol’ Oprey house. Dolly (Bryan Campo), Ovid’s drug visionary, and the story’s comic relief, eventually guides Ovid gently back to the safety of Kye. In Lost Arroyos the abstract movement often becomes the unspoken emotional landscape, shaping the narrative with frenetic rhythms, tangled partnering, and abrupt stillness. In this world premiere, cultural worlds are explored and divided, alongside the collaborative artistic elements of movement, word, audio and images, portraying a diverse portrait of the American spirit.
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For Booking:
Photo by Mercedes McAndrew
"'Under Covers' - clever, dress-as-carousel piece with appropriate accordion music and good dancing and choreography."
Quinn Batson of Offoffoff.com
Under Covers Under Covers is a carousel of movement with five dancers that are corralled, manipulated and tangled in the material of a "larger than life" circle skirt. Their movement resembles prancing horses, plays with ritual celebration of women's roles and boldly redefines the skirt's properties.
Choreographed by Emily Bunning
Performed by Emily Bunning, Aditi Dhruv, Zoe Klein, Kristy Kuhn, and Sarah Young
Costumes by Patti Gilstrap
Last performances:
July 15, 2005
International Dance Festival
Citicorp Theater, The Ailey School
NYC
For Tickets and Information
Presented as part of the Dancenow/NYC Festival
September 14th, 2004
Joyce SoHo, NYC
www.dancenownyc.org
March 12th and 13th, 2004
BAX Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Park Slope, NY
www.bax.org
Performed by Emily Bunning, Aditi Dhruv, Gina Leone, Lisa Niedermeyer, and Sarah Young
In memory of Susan Young...
Outside of Kissing Rock
December 5-8, 2002 at 7pm
READ THE REVIEW by Rebecca Longworth
Photo by Jefri Hayden
Written By
Mara McEwin
Choreographed By Emily Bunning
Original Music By Mark Sopchak
Performed by Lara Hayes-Giles, Karen Lee Pickett, Mara McEwin, and Emily Bunning
READ THE REVIEW by Rebecca Longworth
December 5-8, 2002 at 7pm
HERE Arts Center
145 Avenue of the Americas at Spring St.
Tickets $15
For info and to buy tickets:
212-647-0202 or visit www.here.org
For press contact Laurie Sheppard at www.boompr.com
Share the unforgettable journey of two girls growing up in Southwestern Wyoming and the lifelong friendship that saved their lives. Both humorous and turbulent, Outside of Kissing Rock, written by Mara McEwin and choreographed by Emily Bunning, is a dance-play told through modern dance, spoken poetry, first person interactions, original music, and beautifully filmed video montages. In the red desert beauty of Southwestern Wyoming, Bunning and McEwin grew up twenty-six miles apart on opposite sides of Kissing Rock, a mountain pass between the Red Desert and the Green River. Friends since birth, they learned to care for themselves and each other, after being abandoned by parents who were involved in substance abuse, art or death. Outside of Kissing Rock is not only the tale of children raised wild, but of the earth itself; the eroded landscapes, the painted mountains, and the remarkable open spaces found in this cold desert home. If interested
in booking Outside of Kissing Rock, would like a press kit or more information
please contact us
or Mara McEwin (212) 715-1914
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Touching Illusions
Written By Mara McEwin
Number of Performers: 5 Actors
Staged Reading: March 1999 at Nada 45
Meet Jenny, a lawyer, Josh a poet and Jake an editor at a well-known magazine, they have been friends for years. They have been through plenty of New York days but nothing like the one that begins as the curtain rises. With a day that started out like any other, by mid afternoon it turns into an unbelievable period of war and violence on the New York City streets.
He, She and The Way You Kissed
Written By Mara McEwin
Choreographed By Emily Bunning
Number of Performers: 3 Actors
Staged Reading: June 1998, Producer’s Club
He, She and The Way You Kissed is a three-act play that explores an unconventional love triangle and the extraordinary experience of falling in love.
Dance Of My Daughter
Written By Mara McEwin
Choreographed By Emily Bunning
Number of Performers: 3 Actors, 6 Dancers
Premiered November 1997 at Ensemble Studio Theatre
Dance of My Daughter is the story of a writer seeking to publish her first play. Her autobiographical play of growing up in the south, blind and fatherless leads her to places she never imagined. After moving to the big city, Mica discovers her own strength and ability to persevere.
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Treehouse
Shakers
Radio City Station
P.O. Box 186
New York, NY 10101-0186
(212) 715-1914
contactus@treehouseshakers.com
Emily Bunning,
Artistic Coordinator "Mover"
Mara McEwin, Artistic Director "Shaker"
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Wade Hampton
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