Created by the artist-filmmaker Christopher Roth and the journalist Georg Diez, 80*81 is a unique project that combines their distinct disciplines to recreate historical events of 1980-1981, when the world's cultural, political, and economic landscape changed dramatically in ways that are still apparent today. Roth and Diez have been collaborating [...]
After two years of long-distance, telepathic performance—with Robyn Cook in Africa and Lauren von Gogh in Europe—the artists will use a Watermill Center spring residency for Sit, Sit, Sit, Sit, in which they will share the same physical space for the first time. They will inhabit New York City and [...]
The choreographer Andre Gingras continues to work with his longtime collaborator, the dramaturge/associate director Sue Jane Stoker. The new piece, Readymade Dance, is a response to Duchamp's famous readymades. Gingras and Stoker are using found movements from boxing as the basis of a new choreographic language. They will showcase their [...]
Between 4 and 6 pm on Saturday, October 16th The Watermill Center will be open for public viewing of the work of Stary Mwaba, 2010 Fall Artist in Residence from Zambia. On view will be an installation of paintings as part of a larger maze exploring the perceptions of Africa [...]
Frontier is a solo theatrical opera, comprised of nested stories inspired by John Ford's 1956 film, The Searchers. On October 16th Colin Gee will give a short presentation of his work to-date on the project that will include projected images, text, and music composed by Gee's sister Erin Gee who [...]
Erin Leland’s residency will culminate on November 6 in an exhibition and artist talk through her findings on the subject of reclaiming one's own image. She is currently reinterpreting her own image through autobiographical retellings as well as examining where and how often one is caught unaware by their own [...]
On November 6, 2010 Michael Dudeck will present a prototype of a performance and a series of drawings and texts that he has been working on during his residency. VOWS is a durational residency which involves a 28-day vow of silence he has undertaken while developing this body of work. [...]
On November 20, Alexandra Sachs will present the next stage of her investigation of performance tools and practice, titled SCHAU. SCHAU is loosely inspired by the film A Chorus Line. Dancers audition for a Broadway production and must show their personality and individuality in additional to their acting and dance skills. [...]
Al-Mtsaalh Haal (The Trucial Case) is a project by the performance artist CHOKRA (Conscious Hoarding of Kinetic Rage Associated) that integrates negotiable research in an executable performance investigating CHOKRA's own origin of the Trucial States. At the Watermill Center, CHOKRA has researched, examined, experimented, composed and constructed an open rehearsal [...]
On January 31 Colin Gee will culminate his work on Frontier with a presentation at New York Theatre Workshop as part of the new Watermill Center / New York Theatre Workshop residency partnership. As a result of his Watermill Center residency, Gee was awarded a further partnership residency with NYU-Gallatin [...]