MoveOpolis! XXYY & MARTHA@20 - NYLA March 8-11

MAR 8-11 AT 7:30PM

New York Live Arts Theater (219 W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011)

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Richard Move/MoveOpolis! opens New York Live Arts Live Ideas 2017 with the world premiere of XXYY and Martha@20, a special performance celebrating the 20th anniversary of Martha@…

XXYY is a poetic and otherworldly dance-theater event exploring the multiplicities of the gender spectrum while deconstructing the conventional binaries of male and female. It combines Move’s highly stylized choreography and Alba Clemente’s inventive and elaborate costuming to create a provocative, alternative vision of the world. XXYY incorporates text from the obscure Autobiography of an Androgyne, written at the turn of the 20th century by Ralph Werther. The original sound score by Martux_m includes the Vatican’s Last Castrato, Alessandro Moreschi (1858–1922), the only castrato to make solo recordings. XXYY is performed by Move and longtime collaborators Catherine Cabeen and Katherine Crockett. Lighting design is by Donalee Katz.

The program also features Martha@20, an anniversary celebration of Move’s continuously evolving performance as legendary 20th-century icon Martha Graham. Having received a Bessie Award and accolades worldwide for their highly researched and nuanced portrayal of Graham, Move will present a special performance of Martha@… with monologues that illuminate Graham’s unparalleled career and restagings of Graham dances. Katherine Crockett, a former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Catherine Cabeen, a former member of the Graham Company, will again join Move in this performance.

Produced in Association with Patricia Field Art/Fashion and Slobodan Randjelović

Milano, Via Padova" the last movie work of Rezzamastrella on March 2nd at the third annual Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance

The Martin Segal Theatre Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016
Thursday 2 | On Loop All Day | Segal Lobby

Italy | 2016 | 70 minutes | directed by Flavia Mastrella & Antonio Rezza
Italian with English subtitles
www.rezzamastrella.com

The film tells of racism and intolerance through song that shows the sweetness of a forgotten rhythm. The unusual reality performative reaches peaks when the personal and social problems are intertwined.

FLAVIA MASTRELLA & ANTONIO REZZA deal with communicative arts, Their film Escoriandoli was presented at Venice Film Festival in 1996 and Il Passato è il mio Bastone in 2008. In 2006, their short film Il Piantone was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Shangay. In the same year they made installations and performances at Bologna's GAM Gallery. They have won the Hysteria Prize, the Ubu Prize, and the Napoli Prize. In 2014, published by Il Saggiatore book "Clamori al vento". In 2016 they presented Pitecus at La MaMa Experimental Theatre in New York.

Rolling NYC photo exhibition by Gino Ale at Piccolo Cafè opening March 1st

Piccolo Cafè is not just a place where daily-prepared Italian food is served , but also a place where worldwide artists and talents meet together to catch up, follow up on a project, network and find support to market their work in NY. An opportunity which Umanism could not possibly miss!
Thirty-three-year-old Venezuelan artist Gino Alejandro will launch his first exhibition at Piccolo Cafè located at 274W 40th street in Manhattan on March 1st
Here you will be able to catch the spirit of the city, get to know us and meet our friends. You will also catch a glimpse of how il feels like to live in NY - all through a black and white footage filtered by the eyes of a young photographer . Alejandro's work shows his meticulous  study of light, and his passion about buildings and people, faces and souls, randomly caught during the day. His journey  is a black and white journey made at a different time of the day.  A day walking in NY with Gino and his camera, lens and his love for details is like going back and forth and being able to observe past and present of the City with a contemporary eye , where the future has become our present and is intertwined with our past and with those who settled here before us . Here the City is Itself the main feature hence the choice of black and white .

Gino Alejandro is a current student AT the New York Institute of Photography. He moved to NY to accomplish HIS dream, identify the magic of NY - capital of the world, under a different perspective. He also contributes to @rollingthecities  instagram project with two other photographers that capture the essence of Barcelona, Spain and Buenos Aires in Argentina.

instagram @ginoalejandro @piccolocafenyc