NOVEMBER 29, 4&8PM
FAENA FORUM
Faena Forum
3300 Collins Ave
Miami Beach, Florida 33140
CHOREOGRAPHY BY PAM TANOWITZ
SCENOGRAPHY BY SHO SHIGEMATSU / OMA
MUSIC BY DAN SIEGLER.
COSTUMES BY SYBILLA.
LIGHTING BY DAVISON SCANDRETT.
FEATURING DANCERS MAGGIE CLOUD, JASON COLLINS, DYLAN CROSSMAN, SARAH HAARMANN, LINDSAY JONES, VICTOR LOZANO, AND DANCERS FROM THE MIAMI CITY BALLET SCHOOL.
Once With Me, Once Without Me is a new cross-disciplinary collaboration between choreographer Pam Tanowitz and architect Sho Shigematsu / OMA. Faena Artcommissioned this piece with the idea of conjuring an act of cultural acupuncture to mark the opening of Faena Forum. A space conceived for ultimate flexibility in the production and commissioning of performative expressions, the Forum calls for embodied exploration to fully grasp the potential it holds. The result of the collaboration between Tanowitz and Shigematsu—an exercise that neither party had tried ever before—is an awakening for this new addition to the city’s landscape as place to be occupied and lived in through the ritual of performance.
As architects of the Forum, OMA is uniquely positioned to create a site-sensitive scenic design that highlights the building as a work of art in and of itself. Tanowitz, approaching her choreography with the mind of a dance historian, rearranges chronology and narrative through her use of moving bodies, allowing steps and breath to activate dormant stories within architectural structures. While the scenography approximates the passage of light and shadow throughout the Forum, Tanowitz’s choreography allows viewers to find their own experience of movement, a reminder of our potential and that of the structures that surround us. This time-based experiment exposes the present as a visible echo of the past and the future.
Renowned fashion designer Sybilla enlivens the space with costumes that function as mobile sculptures intervened by dancing bodies, while an original musical composition by Dan Siegler resonates with the sounds of the urban landscape and is remixed live, activating both performers and audience. Lighting designer Davison Scandrett heightens the play of light and darkness, while the young students of the Miami City Ballet School reinforce the fusion of past and future, tradition and experimentation. In one synchronistic moment, artists and audiences dance together to breathe new life into our surroundings.
PAM TANOWITZ has created a body of work that fuses ballet with classic modern dance, with abstract movement that challenges stylistic expectations as well as conventions of composition and the concertgoing experience. Her mission has been to revitalize abstraction and formalism by obliterating most of their self-imposed dialectical boundaries, stretching the material into uncharted territory. She founded Pam Tanowitz Dance in 2000 as a platform to explore her vision with a consistent group of dancers. Since then the company has enjoyed continued success, winning commissions and residencies at prestigious performance venues such as the Joyce Theater, New York Live Arts, the Kitchen, Danspace Project, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process program, and Baryshnikov Arts Center. Tanowitz is the 2016 Juried Bessie Award winner for her body of work. She also received a 2009 Bessie Award for the dance Be in the Gray With Me, at Dance Theater Workshop. She was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University in 2013. Additional honors include a Jerome Robbins Foundation grant and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Grants to Artists award.
SHO SHIGEMATSU is a partner at OMA and director of the New York office. Since joining the firm in 1998, he has been a driving force behind many of OMA’s projects in the Americas and Asia. Shigematsu’s designs for cultural venues include the Faena Forum in Miami Beach, the Pierre Lassonde Pavilion in Québec City, and the Audrey Irmas Pavilion in Los Angeles, as well as direct collaborations with artists, including Cai Guo Qiang, Marina Abramovic, Taryn Simon, and Kanye West. Shigematsu most recently designed exhibitions for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Park Avenue Armory.
OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA’s buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is led by ten partners (Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Sho Shigematsu, Jason Long, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten, Chris van Duijn, and Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli) and maintains offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Dubai. OMA-designed buildings currently under construction include the Taipei Performing Arts Centre, the Qatar National Library, the Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale in Caen, the Bryghusprojektet in Copenhagen, and Prince Plaza in Shenzhen.
DAN SIEGLER is a composer and producer from New York City. His music combines electronic and organic elements, incorporating references to jazz, blues, and folk. Influenced by musique concrète, these “sound-first compositions” employ a mixture of analog synthesizers; orchestration for strings, horns, and woodwinds; and glitch sound material. His work with Pam Tanowitz includes The Spectators (2013) at New York Live Arts and Be in the Gray With Me (2009) at Dance Theater Workshop, for which Siegler received a Bessie Award. In 2016 Siegler and Tanowitz received an O’Donnell-Green commission for the story progresses as if in a dream of glittering surfaces at the Joyce Theater and a choreographer/composer residency administered by Exploring the Metropolis. Siegler’s additional honors include the Olman Scholarship from the National Association of Popular Music and a residency at Wildacres. His composition Read the Following Before Playing (2015) premiered at Roulette Interpretations, performed by String Noise. At his Saturnfoot Studios, Siegler has produced sessions for HBO, Showtime, and David LaChapelle.
DAVISON SCANDRETT has supervised lighting and technical production for more than 1,000 performances in 46 states and 28 countries. Previous designs for Pam Tanowitz include Once With Me (Preview) (Faena Art Center Buenos Aires), Broken Story (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), Heaven on One’s Head and Passagen (Joyce Theater), and The Spectators (New York Live Arts). He has also created lighting for Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, Sarah Michelson, Andrew Ondrejcak, Mike Birbiglia, Neal Brennan, Rebecca Lazier, Harrison Atelier, and Paris Opera Ballet. He was the recipient of a Bessie Award in 2007 for his collaboration with Sarah Michelson and Parker Lutz on the visual design of Dogs. Recent production management credits include Wendy Whelan’s Restless Creature, Marina Abramovic’s Goldberg, Brian Brooks’s Some of a Thousand Words, and numerous productions for Lincoln Center Festival. He was Director of Production for the Merce Cunnigham Dance Company from 2008 to 2012 and is currently the Design and Production Consultant for the Merce Cunningham Trust.
SYBILLA is a designer born in New York, raised in Madrid, and currently based in Mallorca. Her collections are shown in Madrid, Milan, Paris, Tokyo, and New York, winning the highest international acclaim.
PERFORMERS
Maggie Cloud grew up in Sarasota, Florida, and graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in dance. She is currently involved in the work of Moriah Evans, Beth Gill, John Jasperse, Pam Tanowitz, and Gillian Walsh. Maggie has taught at Chen Dance Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and at the University of the Arts Pre-College Summer Institute.
Jason Collins is a Brooklyn-based performer and choreographer whose current credits include Pam Tanowitz Dance, Crossman Dans(c)e, and David Parker/The Bang Group. He has also worked with Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey, Ryan McNamara, Opera Omaha, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Danielle Russo Performance Project, and Christopher Williams. Additionally, Collins is cofounder of HEWMAN, a collective that presents collaborative performance installations in unconventional venues throughout New York City. He is a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and holds a BFA in dance from the Juilliard School.
Dylan Crossman grew up in the south of France, received his BFA from the Laban Dance Centre in London, and studied at Burklyn Ballet Theatre in Vermont. He moved to New York 10 years ago and has worked with many choreographers, including Brian Brooks, Wally Cardona, Ellen Cornfield, Sean Currán, and Julia Gleich. Dylan joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 2009 and was part of the final Legacy Tour, enjoying every second of it. Now freelance, Dylan works with Pam Tanowitz, Kimberly Bartosik/Daela, Sally Silvers, and Ryan McNamara. He is a faculty member for the Cunningham Trust, SUNY Purchase, and Rutgers University as well as a New York Live Arts associate artist. His company, Crossman Dans(c)e, examines human behavior through formalism. Dylan was a 2016 Schonberg Fellow at the Yard in Chilmark, Massachusetts, and performs at Gibney Dance (curated by David Parker) in New York December 1–3, 2016.
Sarah Haarmann grew up in Macungie, Pennsylvania, and loves dance. She is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and has performed works by Pat Catterson, Dylan Crossman, Jessica Lang, Jordan Morley, Denisa Musilova, and Elena Vazintaris. Sarah has been working with Pam Tanowitz Dance since 2012.
Lindsey Jones is originally from St. Louis, Missouri, and received her BFA from SUNY Purchase. Jones originated the role of Cat in Isaac Mizrahi’s Peter and the Wolf and was featured in Mizrahi’s production of The Magic Flute at the Opera of St. Louis. She has appeared with Bill Young, Caleb Teicher & Company, GREYZONE, Ian Spencer Bell, June Finch, and the Merce Cunningham Trust, and continues to perform with Dance Heginbotham and Pam Tanowitz Dance.
Victor Lozano was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a graduate of the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and a YoungArts Finalist in Dance in 2012. Victor holds a BFA from the Juilliard School and is a fellow of the Juilliard Career Advancement Award (2016). He has appeared with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and the Brian Brooks Moving Company, and is currently performing with Pam Tanowitz Dance.
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