DESARROLLAR - by Laura Schwamb and Makram Hamdan
A gallery exhibition and solo performance at Center for Performance Research
A collaboration of visual art and dance, the evening begins with a gallery exhibition of works by Laura Schwamb. Her videos, animated neon, and black and white images set the atmosphere for the performance. Her concept of having a human bridle fabricated was beautifully realized and made possible by Johnny Farah. The exhibition is followed by a solo dance performance in the main theater by Makram Hamdan. Using the shows theme conceived by Laura Schwamb, Makram Hamdan engages to push the limits of poetic control, visceral constraint, and physical endurance in a challenging semi-autobiographical performance based on memory, with live and recorded text.
Information / Interviews / Press / Media Contact: Terry Dean Bartlett, 718-349-1210, press@cprnyc.org
For artwork information please contact: Joss Parsey- joss.parsey@gmail.com
For extended performances please contact: Makram Hamdan- makramhamdan@mac.com
CPR-Center for Performance Research December 9, 10, and 11
Gallery exhibition opens at 7:00pm - Performance begins at 8pm - SHARP!
Tickets: $15, advance purchase recommended. To Purchase: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/139506
Directions: 361 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn (b/w Jackson St. & Withers St.). L Train to Graham Avenue (3rd Stop in Brooklyn) / Exit right out of turnstile / Left on Graham / Left on Jackson / Right on Manhattan.
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Art Exhibition by Laura Schwamb with Makram Hamdan.
Choreography and Performance by: Makram Hamdan / Costume styling: Makram Hamdan/Bridle Design: Johnny Farah /
Light Design: Laura Schwamb, Makram Hamdan, Kirstin Kapustik / Sound Design: Laura Schwamb / Sound engineer: Joe Davi / Hair styling Glen Rumsey / Text: Makram Hamdan / Produced by Laura Schwamb and Makram Hamdan
Makram Hamdan (Choreographer and performer) Originally from Lebanon, Makram Hamdan's emigration to Portland, OR as a teen, initiated his dance training. Subsequently, he graduated from the California Institute of the Arts. Another emigration to France launched his professional dance career, notably with Jean-Claude Gallotta, CCN de Grenoble. While in France, he also began working with Robert Wilson as a performer, then, as choreographer and assistant director both in Europe and at Wilson's Watermill Center in Long Island, NY. With a strong desire to design gardens, he established Makram Hamdan Designs, and began creating grand scale gardens for private clients. Currently living in Brooklyn's vibrant arts neighborhood of Bushwick, Hamdan founded 49B Studios, an artists' residence loft and exhibition space and recently curated his first exhibition titled HOME-LAND for BETA Spaces 2010 and co-presented with ArteEast.
www.makramhamdan.com 49B Studios
Laura Schwamb (Visual Artist) Lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York, where she works in different media centered around the day to day psychological moments of the experience of being alive, balancing between the physical and the spiritual and the transitions of being and becoming.
Johnny Farah (Leather Goods Designer) Early influences came from Copenhagen. Living there in the 70's, he developed a particular interest in the simplicity and practicality of the Scandinavian architecture and furniture design, more specifically in the way different materials like concrete, iron, wood or leather were put to their full formal and functional potential. That time was also marked by Johnny's life-changing encounter with architects Arne Jacobson and Hans Wegner, at which time, Johnny decided to concentrate on his leather designs, which, up until then, were only a means to support his studies. JF hardly ever uses embellished Leather.
