self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. collage by Gina Graham
postcard layout Rob Racine
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
self produced show. postcard by Gina Graham
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Judson Memorial Church Performance
Choreography of Gina Graham presented by
Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC - Nov 2011
Repertory presented...
Body Bags (2011) by Graham
Maki Morinoue presented by New Dance Alliance
Performance Mix Festival
Dixon Place
March, 2010
choreographed by Morinoue
performed by Morinoue and Graham
Maki Morinoue presented by The Field
Emerging Artists Showcase
Dance Theater Workshop
June 30, 2010
choreographed by Morinoue
performed by Morinoue and Graham
The Pounding Room
City Center Studios
December 9, 2009
choreographed by Morinoue, De La Rosa and Graham
Intersection - Jackie O
Intersection of 5th Ave and 82nd Street
September 20, 2009
directed by De La Rosa
Late Saturday Afternoon: Portrait
Sidewalk in Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA
June 28, July 19 & August 2, 2008
choreographed by Morinoue, De La Rosa and Graham
directed by Morinoue
Strictly Seattle 2008
presented by Velocity Dance Center,
Seattle, WA - July 2008
Repertory presented...
Reductive Space (2008) choreographed by Morinoue
Northwest New Works Festival
presented by On The Boards,
Seattle, WA - May 2008
Repertory presented...
Early Sunday Morning (2008) co-choreographed by Morinoue, De La Rosa and Graham
Demonstration & Roundtable
presented by On The Boards at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA - April 2008
Repertory presented...
Early Sunday Morning (2008) co-choreographed by Morinoue, De La Rosa and Graham
Esse Aficionado NYC Fall 2007 Season
Joyce SoHo, NYC - November/December 2007
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
Fifteen Minutes of Fame, or Cult, or One Movement Per Minute (2007)
Algorithm With Someone (2007)
Geoffrey Grauer (2005)
My Artist in Montana (2007)
choreographed by Morinoue:
The Architect (2006)
Bumbershoot 12 Min Max “I Just Want to Dance” series and Fall Kick Off Extravaganza
Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA - September 2007
Repertory presented...
3 Sides (2007) co-choreographed by Morinoue & Selfick Ng-Simancas
Holualoa Foundation for Arts & Culture (HFAC)
Donkey Mill Arts Center
Holualoa, Hawaii - August 2007
Repertory presented...
Isolating Forms and Soliloquy
by Morinoue
Dances by Bachman & Graham
presented by The Tank at Collective:Unconscious,
NYC - June 2007
Repertory presented...
Geoffrey Grauer (2005) & One Movement Per Minute (2007) by Graham
Judson Memorial Church Performance
Choreography of Gina Graham presented by
Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC - May 2007
Repertory presented...
Fifteen Minutes of Fame, or Cult, or One Movement Per
Minute (2007) by Graham
ArtsLaunch
Tashiro Kaplan Artist Loft, Seattle, WA - March 2007
Repertory presented...
Dialogue (2007) by Morinoue
The Bridge Project
presented by Velocity Dance Center,
Seattle, WA - January 2007
Repertory presented...
Nolenz Volenz (2007) by Morinoue
Aorta Performer
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC - December 2006
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
The Moment of Event (2004)
Swan Song for Everyone (2007)
Four Bases (1999)
History (est. 2000)
choreographed by Morinoue:
Self-Depiction (2006)
choreographed by De La Rosa:
Inter...Ruption (2001)
Next Choreographic Series
presented by Velocity Dance Center,
Seattle, WA - May 2006
Repertory presented...
Jerrie Gullick (2005) by Graham
In My Language presented by MiKiJio Arts
Seattle, WA - July 2006
Repertory presented...
In My Language (2006)
Co-choreographed by Gina Graham, Veronica De La Rosa and Maki Morinoue
Soliloquy (2006)
Co-choreographed by Maki Morinoue and Gina Graham
Self Depiction (2006)
Choreographed by Maki Morinoue
The Architect (2006)
Choreographed by Maki Morinoue
Choreography of Gina Graham presented by
45th Street Theater, NYC - May 2006
Repertory presented...
I’m Going To Die Someday (2006) by Graham
Readymade
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC - November 2005
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
History (est. 2000)
Jerrie Gullick (2005)
co-choreographed by Morinoue & De La Rosa:
Just in Case You Were Wondering, I’m Mexican American (2005)
21st Century Dancing
The Ailey Studios, NYC - May 2005
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
Commissure #44; Isn’t #24; Flamingo #17; Axe #20;
Fluorescent #45; Engineer #23 (2005)
The Name Series - Jerrie Gullick, Tom Graham, Geoffrey Grauer (est. 2005)
Event Horizon
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC - October 2004
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
The Moment of Event (2004)
choreographed by Morinoue:
Still Point (2004)
Made on a Mac–Lec/Dem on how we use macs in dance
Apple Store SoHo, NYC - July 2004
Repertory presented...
demonstrated excepts of Inside The Mind of Line (2003) by Graham featuring the invention Speaker Trees by Michael Schneider & Kirsten Gilg.
Joyce SoHo Presents
Joyce SoHo, NYC - May 2004
Repertory presented...
Successions (2003) by Morinoue
Diorama
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC - December 2003
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
Diorama (2003)
History (est. 2000)
choreographed by Morinoue:
Successions (2003)
choreographed by De La Rosa:
Time Past, Time Future (2003)
Esse Aficionado @ Joyce SoHo
Joyce SoHo, NYC - March 2003
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
Where I Meets Thou (1996)
Inside the Mind of a Line (2003)
History (est. 2000)
choreographed by Morinoue:
Episode I & II (2003)
choreographed by De La Rosa:
Power of Point (2003
Esse Aficionado presents...Strangelet
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC - October 2002
Repertory presented...
Strangelet (2002) evening length work
co-choreographed by Graham, Morinoue, & De La Rosa
Esse unplugged - Oasis Dance Festival
presented by Chashama
Times Square, NYC - May 2002
Repertory presented...
excerpts of Strangelet (2002)
co-choreographed by Graham, Morinoue, & De La Rosa
EA Lecture Demonstration
Jewish Community Center, Sherman, CT - April 2002
Repertory presented...
History (est. 2000) by Graham
EA @ APAP Convention “New Voices Series”
City Center Studios, NYC - January 2002
Repertory presented...
History (est. 2000) by Graham
Portrait by Morinoue
Esse Aficionado presents Esse Aficionado
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC - October 2001
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
History (est. 2000)
To Roam the Earth (1998)
Four Bases (1999)
choreographed by Morinoue:
Portrait (2001)
choreographed by De La Rosa:
Inter...Ruption (2001)
This is What I am Doing
University Settlement, NYC - May 2001
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
Currency #3 , Movie #24, Why #17, Receipt #20,
Pepper #45, Tuesday #23 (2001)
History (est. 2000)
choreographed by Morinoue:
Study for a Voice (2001)
The Making of Americans
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC - July 2000
Repertory presented...
choreographed by Graham:
Nude Torsos (1998)
In An Apartment on E. 7th Street (2000)
History (est. 2000)
choreographed by De La Rosa:
Take Five (2000)
postcard by Gina Graham
performance/repertory chronology
cURRENT WORK
BODY BAGS
I wanted to deconstruct the elements that can make viewing a dance and dancing a dance desirable. The idea to put a dancer in a bag was born out of my 2003 work, Diorama. Back then I didn’t have a clear understanding as to why I chose this medium; I just knew I wanted the freakish look and feel of someone trapped inside of a bag on the stage.
I’ve become interested in the exploration of anonymity on stage as a reaction toward our societies’ constant need to showcase who we are, what we’re doing, what we look like and how we look doing things across many public platforms. To some degree, everyone has entered the stage space. In abandoning the identity of face and body I wanted to re-create an anonymous & sacred space for the dancer to facilitate the movement without the exchange of physical appearance and technical ability.
The limitations that are consistently explored in Body Bags can be considered the antithesis of what dance is to most people. I wanted to put the dancer’s instrument in a strained and uncomfortable position, limiting their sight, spatial perceptions and body facings and incorporating the faculty of touch as a static form of sight. The dominating relationship between bag & performer is shared and often contributes to how the movement task is executed. The element of space, movement and time are somehow compressed by the dancer’s inability to see & shape their outside world.
By censoring their expression and individuality inside the bag, I want the dancer and the viewer to be drawn into the texture of what’s happening. These moving, breathing-pods are continually morphing, allowing neutrality to transcend into performance. It is through this medium that the dancer struggles to achieve a symbiotic relationship with the material and their environment, organically allowing movement to become the primary focus.
I derive inspiration for this piece and other dance works by assembling my collages and working with layers of materials & textures. I deconstruct my subjects into powerful, vulnerable, sexualized, and often deformed figures, transforming them into something different from their original state. Like mixing up my collage media, I hope to allow the viewer to see another life force and mystic behind the material. The bold colored bags drape over the dancers’ bodies similar to how sculptors Christo and Jeanne-Claude completely covered objects in material, resulting in a totally different identity and perception of the subject. The objectification of the human figure creates a moving piece of collage-art and the bags are an integral prop that the dance cannot exist without, ultimately becoming the costuming platform for the dance.
It is through the vulnerable and powerful instruments of the unseen figures that I hope to establish an exotic and unsettling quality that can result in finely woven, ambiguous and perverse relationships. However macabre the title, it can suggest numerous scenarios and images that one may find unsettling, but continually reminds us that life and death coalesce.
- Gina Graham, 11/2011
