Dragon’s Egg Presents, at Triskelion Arts, was this afternoon. What a wonderful programme, truly remarkable and varied, beautifully performed,
smoothly presented with lights and care taken by Andy and Sabrina, in a great space. Brilliant wit and grace abounded! Fortunate were those who were there, in the audience, to enjoy. xo namaste, blessings, marya
Dragon’s Egg Presents, at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, is an annual event in which Marya selects eight artists who have been in residence at the Dragon’s Egg, probably in the past year or two. The event is on September 24 at 2 pm. Reservations are via Marya: mybeasts@aol.com. Tickets are a mere $15.
One of the artists (groups) we are happy to present is Marly Spieser-Schneider
Marly Spieser-Schneider graduated from the University of Michigan in 2009 with a BFA in dance. Since graduating she has taught, performed, and choreographed work in various parts of the country and beyond. In Vermont she has been lucky enough to collaborate with many talented artists and has begun to present work under the name “Marly S. Danceworks.” As she prepares to relocate to New York City she finds herself in a beautiful and fertile place of uncertainty when it comes to her creation of dance work. The only thing she knows for sure is that the human form and its boundless possibility continues to awe and inspire her. And so she creates, knowing that not ever work is a masterpiece but every work is a piece of a masterful puzzle.
www.marlysdanceworks.com
This quote sums up the basic impulse for all of our explorations in the work”3 to infinity, part 1″: “ Mathematicians say that numbers progress from one to two to three to many. It is the number three that unlocks the possibility of infinite diversity. Infinite, unmanifested origin is one. Duality is two. Duality is the idea or concept of separation, of division, but alone it cannot manifest in phenomena. Three is a wave, a sine curve, a vibration like light or sound. When two waves collide a new phenomena is created. That is the creativity inherent in nature. Even at the subtlest level, that of vibration and infra-atomic particles, natures built-in wobble sets it on an endless cycle of creation, destruction, and recreation. From three comes many”
Every fall, Marya produces a concert in NYC that showcases a number of the artists who have been in residence at the Egg in the past year or so. The concert this year will be on September 24th at 2 pm at Triskelion Arts. Reservations are via Marya at her email: mybeasts@aol.com, and tickets are a mere $15. Do join us!!
One of the artists we present this year is Melody Ruffin Ward.
Title: “Distilled Verse Viii
Choreographer and Performer: Melody Ruffin Ward
Music: “Sons & Daughters” by Allman Brown and Liz Lawrence
Melody Ruffin Ward’s choreography and dancing have been described by poet Tim Seibles as having “the physical capacity to articulate the delights and lyrical mysteries of being human…her work bears witness that we live in bodies, and that it is only through our vulnerable flesh that we enter and come to know the world.” A graduate of Spelman College with a B.A. in English and Education, she graduated cum laude and went on to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she received her M.F.A. in choreography and performance, studying both the Cunningham and Limon techniques. Ward’s work is focused on movement that is gestural and based in a love for spacious phrases that are rooted in the earth. She is interested in developing work that has an internal and personal dialogue. She creates atmospheres where both the specialist and the non-specialist have the opportunity to experience the impact that dance and movement have on humans.
Ward was a Professor of Dance for two decades and most recently completed her Masters of Divinity at Andover Newton Graduate Theological School with a focus on Pastoral Theology. As a choreographer, she seeks spaces to bring movement as a way of integrative healing through her ongoing work with ‘The Turning House Project,’ a collective where her interest in gathering artists of different genres together feeds the artist in her and others she meets.
This photo is of Shelley Fort, actress and singer, who will be directed by Caitlin O’Connell. Both are, by the way, also National Theatre Institute alum, and both went to graduate school at Brown University.
Dragon’s Egg Presents at Triskelion is an annual showcase event curated by Marya using performers who have been artists in residence at the Egg over the past year or two. This year’s performance features 9 different pieces, each of which will be about 10 minutes long, and will include dance, theatre, monologue, music.
For reservations, please contact Marya via email: my beasts@aol.com
The performance will be on September 24th at 2 pm at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY. Tickets are a mere $15.
As a part of the Dragon’s Egg Presents at Triskelion program, we bring you Cecilia Fontanesi and her explorations.
The concert is at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY, on September 24th, at 2 pm, and features nine different actor/dancer groups who have been in residence at the Egg within the past year or two.
Come join us! Tickets are a mere $15. Reservations: contact Marya at mybeasts@aol.com.
Photo Credits: Marie Noyale
Caitlin Ryan O’Connell will be directing Shelley Fort in a piece for the Dragon’s Egg Presents concert at Triskelion, in Brooklyn, on September 24th, at 2 pm. Contact Marya at mybeasts@aol.com for information and for tickets ($15). Do come! xo m
Caitlin Ryan O’Connell is a theatre director and teaching artist focused on creating work that reflects the immediacy of our current social, cultural, environmental, and political life. Her work attempts to excavate the collision of all the minds and bodies in the room to generate a collective story. Originally from Waterville Valley, New Hampshire she now lives in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked with The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, LCT3, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Trinity Repertory Company, and Clubbed Thumb. In 2010, she conceived and directed A World of Girls, an original play based on interviews with teenage girls from twenty-two countries worldwide. At Brown/Trinity Rep Caitlin directed Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and Will Eno’s GNIT. Caitlin is a former directing intern at Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has trained with the National Theater Institute, St. Petersburg Theatre Arts Academy, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Simon McBurney’s Complicite and the NY Neofuturists. She is a teaching artist with The International Theatre and Literacy Project and works in Rwanda to devise theatre with Rwandan youth. Caitlin is an alumna of Wellesley College and a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Directing class of 2016.
Shelley Fort
Daughter of a poet and dancer/choreographer, Shelley was born in Wilmington, NC. She was raised in Connecticut, Nebraska, and trained throughout the world; St. Petersburg, Russia Theater Arts Academy, the British American Drama Academy, and the National Theater Institute (Eugene O’Neill). She has a workshop of her play, Black Wings Bloom on an Ivory Sky, this fall at the National Black Theatre (NY). She is writing a feature-film with her sister, Claire, based on the marriage of their bi-racial parents, their pursuit of the American dream, and the price you pay for happiness. Her choreography and dance performances have been seen through the American College Dance Association, Brown University, and Kenyon College. New York: Blossom, Burnished By Grief (La MaMa); MiMi, Harry and The Thief (Habitat Theater Co) Regional: Mayme, Intimate Apparel (Trinity Rep); Belle, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Rep); Cressida, Troilus and Cressida (Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble); TV/Film: Liberal Arts, Josh Radnor; Unicornland, Lucy Gillespie BA Kenyon College, MFA Brown/Trinity Rep www.shelleyfort.com
Every year, the Dragon’s Egg presents a few of the dancers/actors/musicians who have been in residence at the Egg during the past couple of years. We normally host around 40 residencies a year, but we present from 8 – 12 artists in the fall, in NYC. The concert this year will be held at Triskelion in Brooklyn on September 24th at 2 pm. $15. Look for more information on this as the time gets closer.
In the meantime, I shall highlight each of the performers in the next few weeks here, on the website. namaste, marya
Jason Rabin is a writer, musician and performer based in Boston, Massachusetts. His solo theater pieces are often inspired by archetypes from world mythology and literature, and by American blues traditions. Jason is the lead vocalist, harmonica player and songwriter for the Ways and Means Committee, a blues and roots rock band influenced by the record collections of their hippy antecedents and by the indy rock revolution. A dedicated arts advocate, Jason has worked as an arts reporter and theater critic and currently works to bring arts programming to schools and other educational settings through Young Audiences of Massachusetts.
