PUBLIC EVENTS
Performance Studio Open House
Featuring Massimiliano Balduzzi & Michele Torino Hower
Saturday, October 17, 3pm
FREE
Performance Studio Open House will welcome the general public into the performance practices of artists currently developing work at CPR. Rather than engaging a curatorial directed vision, CPR will represent the diversity of artists and artistic practices that are currently occurring at its facility, inviting the public to experience the broad range of artistic processes and aesthetics involved in making contemporary dance work.
Each Saturday afternoon program of the monthly series will feature 2-4 artists. These artists will have the opportunity show anything from short excerpts of a nearly completed work to improvisational structures drawn from their working process.
Massimiliano Balduzzi
A short demonstration of an approach to physical training. This work is based on a sequence of precise physical actions that link the mechanics of the human body with the associative and rhythmic work of an actor.
Artist Bio
Massimiliano Balduzzi has dedicated over ten years to the study of physical and vocal training for actors. With Anne Zenour he co-founded and for five years co-directed the work of Teatro della Pioggia in Siena, Italy. This work, human and technical, led to a deeper understanding and need for continuing vocal and physical research and practice. Massimiliano performed in several theatre pieces under Zenour's direction. He has also trained with Stefano Vercelli in Modena and Guru I Made Bukel and Guru Ny Nyoman Chandry in Bali, Indonesia. He moved to New York City in November, 2008.
Michele Torino Hower
In this new work, very much in progress, I am gathering and sorting ideas around tracing and memory. I am interested in how information transforms over time and how that change informs our present state and sense of location.
Artist Bio
Michele Torino Hower was born in New Hampshire where she grew up making plays and dances in her backyard. She received a BA in Theater from Holy Cross College and an MFA in Dance from the University of New Mexico. In 2004 she co-founded the PutAttention Collective, a collective of 5 female dancers, whose work was presented at q-staff theater and ReadyMade Theater in Albuquerque. In NYC she has worked with Hannah Harpole in a collaboration called X-tra Bullets whose work has been shown at Portland Oregon's Conduit Dance, the Philly Fringe Festival, Cunningham Studio and at Chez Bushwick through the Site Festival. Michele has also danced with Bill Evans, Vivian Cruz, Esther Balfe and Heather McCardle. She teaches dance to kids, through two different non-profits, in Bushwick and the 5 boroughs.
