Fall DanceWorks Auditions!

DANCE AUDITIONS: DanceWorks Fall '09
Thursday September, 3rd
Building J (2131 G Street, rear)
6:30 PM


Guest Artist: ANNA SPERBER
BIO

Anna Sperber is a native of Brooklyn, New York, where she is currently based. Her work has been pre¬sented in venues throughout NYC including Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the 92nd St. Y Harkness Dance Center, Dixon Place, Joyce SoHo, and Chez Bushwick (at Shtudio Show and The Ronald Feldman Gallery), Live Sh— at the Chocolate Factory, AUNTS, Catch! Series at P.S.122, and the Duo Multi Cultural Arts Center. She is a 2006-08 Movement Research Artist In Residence, and a recipient of NYSCA Dance Program Public Commissioning Funds. Her work has also been supported through residen¬cies at the Harkness Dance Center at the 92 Street Y, SILO/ DanceNYC, Dragon’s Egg, and the Experimental Television Center.

Sperber, with composer Mario Diaz de Leon and video artist Jay King collaborated on the cinema installation, Cutting and Joining, 2005, and she has also collaborated extensively with artist and musician, Peter Kerlin. In addition to her own work she has performed in the work of Julie Atlas Muz, Isabel Lewis, Beth Gill, Charlotte Gibbons, The Brooklyn Adult Recorder Choir, and with Fritz Haeg/ Animal Estates at The Whitney Museum and the Park Avenue Armory as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Anna also dances with Juliette Mapp, whom she has worked with for the past four years.
Anna has taught in the Guest Artist Series at DNA in NYC, and at The American Dance Festival as part of the WFSS Series, and was selected to participate in the panel discussion at ADF/NY Winter 2007. Anna was a Co-Curator of the Movement Research Festival Spring 08 Somewhere Out There. Anna is a 2008 Sugar Salon Artist, a program developed and administered by the Williamsburg Art neXus (WAX) in part¬nership with the Department of Dance of Barnard College and supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Anna holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, and currently runs BRAZIL, a studio and intimate performance space in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work is an investigation into the body as a cognitive vessel for processing emotional and temporal information. I look to create imagery that is intimate, visceral, and rooted in both lucidity and mystery.
I am interested in how our perceptions of time and our own personal histories affect our changing experi¬ence of ourselves. My process most often begins with solo improvisation, working intuitively with con¬cerns of physical qualities, kinesthetic choices, time, and space. As I continue to work, I allow each col¬laborating performer’s individual character to affect the direction of the material. I develop content and structure through working with repetition, and with attention to subtle shifts as we live in the material to¬gether over time. This affects what surfaces in the material and what direction it takes, letting the shape and energy of a body create psychology as much as it reflects it.
For me, this process is a way of allowing meaning and content to surface. My aim is to create a visceral experience for the viewer and to allow them to have their own associations and relationship to it. I find my way into the work without a fixed plan. I invent structure and meaning as the work reveals itself, which infuses the work with a palpable immediacy; a sense that you are seeing things as they are unfolding. In making work, I let many of my own questions remain unanswered, allowing them to articulate themselves through the process.

Through the use of found objects, set design, and the integration of existing elements of each perform¬ance space, I work to sculpt a unique immersive environment -a reflection of the interior world from which the piece emerges. I am interested in how the surroundings transform the dance, and how the dance transforms the space around us.

annasperber.com 55 S. Oxford St. #5 Brooklyn, NY 11217 646.281.5851 anna@annasperber.com �