60x60 Dance pairs 60 composers with 60 choreographers for an electrifying one-hour performance
October 23, 2009
Fall Season

60x60 Dance pairs 60 composers with 60 choreographers for an electrifying one-hour performance

World Financial Center Winter Garden, NYC on Friday, November 13

"An express without any delay....It's this kind of madness that makes the cultural world go round." – The New York Times

New York, NY – arts>World Financial Center joins forces with the NY-based music consortium Vox Novus to present 60x60 Dance – a one-hour multimedia extravaganza featuring an exciting mix of contemporary dance and electronic music. Embracing a grass-roots ideology, 60x60 Dance takes 60 one-minute audio works culled from an international pool of emerging and established composers and assigns them to an equal mix of 60 local choreographers assembled by Amiti Perry. The resulting collaborations are presented, without interruption, as a continuous one-hour performance synchronized to an on-stage analog clock.

"A minute can be plenty of time to express a whole gamut of imaginative sounds and movements, or it can be a challenge, forcing the artist to isolate what is most important in his/her work," Vox Novus's founder/director Robert Voisey explains. "60x60's goal is to disseminate a cross-section of aesthetics in an exciting format to a broad spectrum of people."

Eclectic by nature, 60x60 Dance offers an unmatched diversity of styles, making for a fast-speed, electrifying one-of-a-kind performance that never ceases to surprise. Dance influences will range from ballet to postmodern movements, while music includes neo-romantic, folk, tech-house, noise, rock and everything but the kitchen sink.

60x60 Dance will take place on Friday, November 13 at the World Financial Center Winter Garden at 12:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. The event is free. For more information, click www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com or http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm.

The 60 choreographers include Nadia Fischer, Julie Turner and Emily Maurer, Alanna Marie Urda/Amalgamate, Julie Fortheringham, Saint Yes Is Magic, Emily Bufferd, Alaine Handa, Sasha Soreff, Jennifer Medina, Cara Surico, Sean Hilton, Rani Welch, Jessie Tomanek, Michelle Puskas, Astrid von Ussar, Whitney V. Hunter, Germaul Barnes, Luke Murphy, Mika, Alexandra Jennings, Dana Fisch, Kathryn Luckstone, Angela Harris, Julieta Valero, Victoria Scanga, Nicole Phillipidis, J. Morgan Chambers, Brittney Jensen, Shandoah Goldman, Rachel Korenstein, James Morrow, Hsiao-Wei, Hsieh & Hsiao-Ting, Hsieh, Monica Ordonez, Megan Hornaday, Kalamandir Dance Company, Vigdid Hentze Olen, Darnetha Lincoln M’Baye, Slaveya Starkov, Lillibelle and Wild Red, Korhan Basaran, Einy Aam Sparks, Kaoru Ikeda, Marni Halasa, Pascal Rekoert, Song Hee Lee & Karen Kreigel, Amiti Perry, Erin Bomboy, Lea Fulton, Laura Shapiro, Sari Nordman, Kirsten Klein, Alison Jones, Tina Croll, Katie Taylor, Harry Jefferson, Eve Chalom, Caron Eule, Marianne Delehanty, and Heather Favaretto.

The 60 composers include Aaron Acosta, Christopher Ariza, Dwight Ashley, Dennis Barthory-Kitsz, Jay Batzner, Adam Basanta, Justin Brierley, Ben Boone, Halsey Burgund, Hermes Camacho, Danny Clay, David Congo, Alvin Curan, Matthew Dotson, Mark Eden, Morgan Fisher, Enrico Francioni, Kraig Grady, Cem Guney, Richard Hall, Yoko Honda, Masaaki Iseki, Lynn Job, Bernadette Johnson, Tova Kardonne, Aaron Krister Johnson, Timo Kahlen, Tova Kardonne, Michiko Kawagoe, Anton Killin, HyeKyung Lee, Brian Lindgren, Angela McGary, John Maycraft, Pasquale Mainolfi, Leslie Melcher, Polly Moller, Josue Moreno, David Morneau, Peter Mottram, Alexander Mouton, Paul I Oehlers, Doug Opel, Christophe Petchanatz, Kala Pierson, Gene Pritsker, Robert Ratcliffe, Matt Schickele, Philip Schuessler, Les Scott, Diana Simpson, Steven Snowden, Jorge Sosa, Laurie Spiegel, Aart Uunivers, Gregory Yasinitsky, Patricia Walsh, Jane Wang, Andrew Weathers, Andrew Willingham, and Natal Zaks.

60x60 was originally conceived of as an electronic music project, collecting 60-second works by composers and sound artists from around the world. Since 2003, 60x60 has featured the work of more than 1200 composers in concerts spanning the globe. From the beginning 60x60 was a natural vehicle for collaborating with other art forms. Initially this included video, photography and sculpture. In 2007, 60x60 teamed up with choreographers and 60x60 Dance was born. Since then this unique collaboration has produced seven exciting shows, each featuring a different group of composers and choreographers.

For the 2009-10 season Vox Novus is taking 60x60 Dance on the road. Performances include:
12/05/09: 60x60 (2009 / International Mix) Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, California
12/04/09: 60x60 Dance (2008 / Canada Mix) dance colaboration organized by Violaine Morinville, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
12/03/09: 60x60 (2009 / International Mix) Full Moon Concerts - Long Night's Moon San Francisco, California
11/21/09: 60x60 Dance (2008 / Canada Mix) dance collaboration organized by Violaine Morinville Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
11/13/09: 60x60 Dance (2009 / International Mix) dance collaboration organized by Amity Perry, presented by World Financial Center at the Winter Garden Atrium
11/13/09: 60x60 Video (2009 / International Mix) video collaboration with Patrick Liddell New Music Juke Joint, Mississippi
11/13/09: 60x60 Audio (2009 / International Mix) Central Michigan University, Michigan
11/08/09: 60x60 Dance (2009 / International Mix) dance collaboration organized by Amiti Perry, presented by New Music Circle at MadArt, St Louis, Missouri
11/06/09: 60x60 Dance (2009 / International Mix) dance collaboration organized by Amiti Perry, presented by Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Kansas City
10/14/09 60x60 (2009 / International Mix) University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

60x60 Dance in New York is presented by Vox Novus and arts>World Financial Center which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties and Merrill Lynch.

For more information on arts>World Financial Center, visit www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com

For more information on Vox Novus and 60x60, go to: http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60.htm