Jack Ferver: Chambre

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Date:
February 1, 2014
Time:
4:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue:
The Watermill Center
Jack Ferver

2:00 pm – PUBLIC TOUR OF WATERMILL
3:00 pm – José Carlos Casado Exhibition Viewing
4:00 pm – Jack Ferver presentation of Chambre.
Reception and continuation of José Carlos Casado’s Exhibition Viewing

In Chambre, choreographer, writer, and performer Jack Ferver and visual artist Marc Swanson collaborate to create an original work that is both dance-theater performance and art installation. Using Jean Genet’s play Les Bonnes (The Maids) as its inspiration, the work explores otherness, societal notions of difference, and the class divide. This presentation will be a work in process showing of the performance material created by Ferver with his performers, Michelle Mola and Jacob Slominski, during their residency at The Watermill Center. The work is not suitable for children.

About Jack Ferver
Jack Ferver has been creating full-length works since 2007. He has been presented at The French Institute Alliance Francaise (NYC), The Kitchen (NYC), The Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston, MA), PS 122 (NYC), The New Museum (NYC), The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Diverse Works (Houston, TX), Danspace Project (NYC), Abrons Arts Center (NYC), Dixon Place (NYC), and Théâtre de Vanves in France. Shorter and solo works have been presented at MoMA/PS1, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Dance New Amsterdam, LaMaMa E.T.C., The Culture Project, and NP Gallery (all NYC). His work has been written about in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, ArtForum, Modern Painters, TimeOut New York, The New York Post, The Boston Globe, and Dance Magazine.

Ferver’s premiered All of a Sudden, a collaboration with Joshua Lubin-Levy this past spring at Abrons Arts Center. Ferver’s solo Mon, Ma, Mes premiered as part of Crossing the Line at the French Institute Alliance Francaise in fall of 2012 and returned as part of an evening with Jerome Bell and Matthilde Monnier and again for American Realness at Abrons Arts Center. His solo, Two Alike, a collaboration with the visual artist Marc Swanson, was presented at Diverse Works in conjunction with The Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston in 2011. The work then premiered in New York at The Kitchen and traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art in conjunction with Summer Stages Dance in Boston in 2012. In 2011 Ferver also premiered his duet with Michelle Mola, Me, Michelle at the Museum of Arts and Design as part of Performa 11. It returned as part of American Realness at Abrons Art Center. Ferver’s Rumble Ghost premiered at PS 122 in 2010, and was brought back for their COIL Festival in 2011. His A Movie Star Needs A Movie was commissioned by The New Museum in 2009. It was also presented in American Realness at Abrons Art Center and at Théâtre de Vanves in France. He was the first choreographer to be presented at The New Museum’s current location with I Am Trying to Hear Myself in 2008. He remounted the work at PS 122 in 2009. In 2009 he also premiered his evening length work Death is Certain at Danspace Project. In 2008 Ferver premiered MEAT, his second Mondo Cané! commission from Dixon Place. Ferver’s first Mondo Cané! commission was in 2007 for his first full length work: When We Were Young And Filled With Fear.

As an actor, credits include the film Gayby, Strangers With Candy, and numerous other film and theatre projects. His writing has been published in the magazine Novembre. He has curated for Danspace Project, Center for Performance Research, and Dance New Amsterdam. He is adjunct faculty at NYU and has taught at SUNY Purchase, Bard College, and has set choreography at The Juilliard School.

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