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The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009: Philadelphia
Artists With Audiences Responding to Dance
Dance, 105 minutes
Live Arts Festival
Co-Presentation with The Joyce Theater “I really don’t believe that art should be rarefied. It should be as simple as breathing air.”—Neta Pulvermacher, founder of The A.W.A.R.D. Show!, in an interview with Time Out New York. 12 choreographers. $10,000. Who takes it home? You be the judge.Twelve Philadelphia-area choreographer were chosen for their ability to create inspirational and inventive contemporary dance. Now they compete over three preliminary performances (four choreographers per night) for the chance to be voted by the audience onto the final night, when the three final choreographers present their work and the winner takes home $10,000. The prize pays for the creation of a new piece. The two runners-up each receive $1,000. More than a gladiatorial dance-off, The A.W.A.R.D. Show! features talkbacks so that audiences can express their ideas about the work directly to the choreographers. By having you choose what’s best, the performances entice you to pay close attention to the dance that’s presented. And while not every choreographer goes home with the Benjamins, the show provides a platform for emerging artists to present their work, and for audiences to be exposed to the next wave of American choreography. Preliminary 1: Jumatatu Poe, Jenn Rose, Kathryn TeBordo, Kate Watson-Wallace A reception with the artists is held after each show.
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! was founded in 2006 by choreographer Neta Pulvermacher/The Neta Dance Company and producer Marisa König Beatty in response to a need for a lab-like space in which working dance artists can engage in an open dialogue with the audience about the work presented. The A.W.A.R.D. Show! is now administered and produced by The Joyce Theater Foundation (www.joyce.org) and has been expanded from an annual series held in New York City at Joyce SoHo to a multi-city format in 2009. Additional 2009 series are taking place at The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago and On the Boards (Seattle).
The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2009 productions and awards in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Seattle are made possible by a generous grant from The Boeing Company. Read blog articles about this show by clicking here. Nichole Canuso is the artistic director of Nichole Canuso Dance Company. She has been a company member of Headlong Dance Theater since 1997, and has also worked with Pig Iron Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, and Moxie Dance Collective. She will be a choreographic resident at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) in the summer of 2009, working on TAKES, which premieres at the 2010 Live Arts Festival. www.nicholecanusodance.com Braham Logan Crane creates fresh, innovative work that blends modern, jazz, hip hop, and contemporary movements. Crane serves as founder, artistic director, and choreographer for ASH Contemporary Dance. He was the youngest choreographer to win a Gold Leo Award for excellence in jazz choreography at the Jazz Dance World Congress in Buffalo, NY. www.BrahamCrane.com Devynn Emory is a locally-based choreographer and mover. Emory is currently working with Headlong Dance Theater and Tere O'Connor, and is a recent Fresh Tracks artist at Dance Theater Workshop in New York. Emory is also a resident choreographer of the Susan Hess Choreographers Project. Ongoing projects include curating the annual 48hour dance project, making dance films, and choreographing music videos for the band Plastic Little. Kirsten Kaschock is a poet and a choreographer. Her first book of poems, Unfathoms, is available from Slope Editions. She has received grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in both her chosen art forms. She recently moved back to the Northeast after spending her artistic time and energies during the past decade in the Deep South and the Midwest. Kirsten is currently a PhD fellow in dance at Temple University. Megan Mazarick has danced with BoanDanz Action (Philadelphia), anonymous bodies (Philadelphia), and DanceTactics (New York). She She has produced shows in the 2005, 2006, and 2007 Philly Fringe. In 2009 she became a resident artist for the Community Education Center's New Edge Residency Program. Megan taught for four years at Temple University and is currently adjunct faculty at Rowan University. She is also a dance filmmaker. www.mazaricknation.com Jen McGinn began dancing in the womb of a ballerina to the Scottish songs of her father, a painter. Today, she works as an independent artist and as part of map dance collective. She has been an artist-in-residence at Hollins University, Booker High School Visual and Performing Arts Center, the American Dance Festival School for Young Dancers, the West Coast Civic Ballet, and currently the nEW Festival. Her interests include Cecchetti ballet, magical thinking, and logic problems. www.jenmcginn.org Jumatatu Poe directs and performs with Idiosyncrazy Productions, a physical theater company that synthesizes vivid narrative imagery with bold physicality in the creation of contemporary urban psychological fables. Poe hails from California, and is an alum of Swarthmore College and Temple University. In 2008, Poe became a resident choreographer with the Susan Hess Modern Dance Choreographers Project. www.jumatatudance.net Gabrielle Revlock is a multidisciplinary artist and resident choreographer with the nEW Festival. She is a company member of Jeanne Ruddy Dance and recently returned from a tour in Holland with Isabelle Chaffaud and Jérôme Meyer. Gabrielle originated Wear Your Wig to Work Day, an annual holiday on the last Friday in January. www.manomdamno.com Jenn Rose is the founder/artistic director/choreographer of Loose Screws, a contemporary tap dance company. She received a National Commendation for Choreography from the American College Theater Festival for her work on Hair! Regional choreography credits include: Avenue X (11th Hour Theatre Company), The Irish . . . And How They Got That Way (Walnut Street Theatre), 42nd Street (Ocean City Theatre Company), The Who's Tommy (Academy Theatre), and Aida (Media Theatre). www.loosescrewstap.com Zornitsa Stoyanova, native of Bulgaria and director of Here[begin] Dance Co., is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. She has danced for Brigitta Herrmann's Ausdruckstanz, Eiko & Koma, Paul Matteson, Amnesiac Music and Dance, and Willi Dorner. Zornitsa currently produces the Current: an evening of dance and art and DANCE CINEMA PROJECTS series. Her work explores traditional and not-so-traditional media and integrates installation into the performance. www.herebegindance.com Kathryn TeBordo is the artistic director of Workshop for Potential Movement, a body-based performance company. She has danced with devynn emory/ beast productions and in the dance film Wanna Kiss Myself by J. Makary, and Jérôme Bel's The Show Must Go On. Kathryn was educated at Bard College and SUNY Brockport. She lives with her husband Christian, a novelist, in Center City. www.potentiallymoving.org Kate Watson-Wallace is a choreographer and director of anonymous bodies, a performance company that creates site-based installation. Projects include CAR, a performance for four audience members who sit in the backseat of a moving car, and HOUSE, a show inside a row home. Her new work STORE is being performed in the 2009 Live Arts Festival. www.katewawa.com 
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