REPLICA, A stunning multi-disciplinary production performed in 2 spaces! November 12 at the Adrienne Arsht Center & November 13 at MOCA!

The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA) proudly announce a collaborative Miami premiere of REPLICA by Daniel Arsham, Jonah Bokaer, and Judith Sanchez Ruiz and featuring Taiwanese dancer CC Chang. REPLICA explores the overlapping disciplines of choreography and spatial design through the collaborative lens of Miami’s own Daniel Arsham, an internationally acclaimed visual artist and set designer; Jonah Bokaer, an award-winning choreographer and media artist; and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, an accomplished dancer and choreographer.  The work will be performed twice in Miami – first in a theater, and then in a museum – providing South Florida audiences with the unique opportunity to experience the performance in two extraordinary and different contexts.  At the Adrienne Arsht Center on November 12 at 8 p.m., the audience will have the opportunity to experience the full theatrical production, including video projections and stage lighting.  On November 13 at 7 p.m. at MOCA, REPLICA will be performed in a museum setting.

Arsham created the original set design for the Adrienne Arsht Center’s 2007 Merce in Miami premiere performance.  This event led to the meeting and subsequent artistic collaboration between Arsham and Bokaer – a former Merce Cunningham dancer.  Since then, the two have created four international productions, and with REPLICA’s Miami performances, this body of work comes full circle. 

Tickets for REPLICA at the Adrienne Arsht Center are on sale now.  Tickets are $25, and may be purchased through the Adrienne Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online at www.arshtcenter.org.

Tickets for REPLICA at the Museum of Contemporary Art are $10 for MOCA members, North Miami residents and City of North Miami employees; $15 for non-members.  Tickets may be purchased by calling (305) 893-6211.

“It gives us great pleasure to host the Miami premiere of REPLICA, a work which had its genesis on our Adrienne Arsht Center stage,” said M. John Richard, president and CEO of the Adrienne Arsht Center.  “We are delighted to continue our creative relationship with MOCA, bringing the very best artists working in visual art and dance together for a momentous South Florida performance art event.”

MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater said, “We are thrilled to present this new production as a legacy of the 2007 Merce in Miami festival in which MOCA and the Adrienne Arsht Center were the incubators for Daniel Arsham and Jonah Bokaer’s collaboration.”

REPLICA is a stunning production that masterfully melds the worlds of dance, sculpture, and visual art.  Initially conceived as an exploration of memory loss, movement pattern recognition, and spatial perception, REPLICA has evolved into a rich multi-dimensional work incorporating sets, objects, lighting, video, and still images to create intriguing visual illusions.  Arsham, Bokaer, and Chang all appear on stage, creating situations that could not veritably exist, suggesting another imaginary dimension beyond the vivid 3-D performance they inhabit.

In 2007, the Adrienne Arsht Center presented a world premiere piece during Merce in Miami, a celebration of pioneering choreographer Merce Cunningham.  MOCA recommended then 24-year-old Miami artist Daniel Arsham to create the sets for the new production on the Adrienne Arsht Center stage.  From this experience, Arsham and former lead Cunningham dancer Jonah Bokaer formed a creative collaboration that resulted in REPLICA.  The work also features an original commissioned score by ARP/Alexis Georgopoulos and video by Bokaer, shot in Miami during the initial creative stages of the work.

Daniel Arsham (visual designer/performer) splits his time between Miami and New York, with representation in Paris and Miami by Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin and in Amsterdam by Ron Mandos Gallery.  He has collaborated with choreographer Merce Cunningham, fashion designer Hedi Slimane, and architect Wonderall on multiple projects.  His work has been shown at PS1 in New York, MOCA in Miami, The Athens Biennial, and Le Carre d’Art in Nîmes, France, among other esteemed galleries and museums.  Arsham has presented solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Australia, and Miami, and a monograph chronicling his work was published by the French Centre National des Arts Plastiques.

Jonah Bokaer (choreographer/dancer) is an international choreographer, media artist, and innovator. His work often integrates choreography with digital media, resulting from cross-disciplinary collaborations with artists and architects. Bokaer’s choreography has been shown in Belgium, Canada, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. Bokaer recently received the 2011 Jerome Robbins prize Fellowship of the Bogliasco Foundation in Genoa.  His choreography has also been honored with a Human Rights Award, the Joan Kirnsner Memorial Award, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, and a National Dance/Access scholarship.  Bokaer was a recipient of the inaugural DTW Gallery Installation Fellowship and has garnered two New York Dance & Performance/BESSIE Awards.  Bokaer is also a current choreographer for the operas of Robert Wilson. Such works include Gounod’s “FAUST” (National Opera of Poland), Verdi’s “AÏDA” (Opera of Rome, Italy), “KOOL” in tribute to Suzushi Hanayagi (USA/Japan) and the exhibition “FRONTERAS” (IVAM Museum, Spain).

CC Chang (dancer) was born in Taiwan and currently lives and works as a choreographer and performer in New York. She received her M.F.A. in dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she was awarded a three-year Creative and Performing Arts Fellowship. Chang has worked with Kirstie Simson at the Art of Dance Improvisation: Research and Performance in Italy and Greece. She was a resident at the 2007 Dance Omi International Dance Collective; 2008-09 Outer/Space Artists in Residence at Dance Theater Workshop; and 2009 Swing Space Residency – 14 Wall Street at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.  In 2008, she received the LMF Dance Fund from Cloud Gate Dance Theatre. She also participated in the International Summer Program at Watermill Center in 2008 and 2009. Chang has also worked with Robert Wilson, Jonah Bokaer, Daria Fain, Tere O’ Connor, Hong-Kai Wang, Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Esteban Donoso, Riverbed Theatre Company, and Shakespeare’s Wild Sisters Group.

Judith Sanchez Ruiz (choreographer) makes work based in the exploration of visceral movement impulses through geometric, architectural choreography.  Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, Ruiz has worked with dance companies in Cuba, Spain, and the U.S., including the acclaimed Trisha Brown Dance Company.  She has collaborated with artists across genres, including Henry Threadgill, Dafnis Prieto, Steve Coleman, and Jonathan Cramer.  In New York Ruiz has performed with Jeremy Nelson, Luis Lara, and DD Dorvillier.  This year, Ruiz was selected by Dance Magazine as one of the 25 dancers to watch in 2010.

REPLICA in Miami is made possible by the John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, in partnership with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.

The performance at MOCA is made possible in part by Hal Phillips and Carl and Shirley Schwartz, with additional support provided by Rosalind Jacobs.

REPLICA has been commissioned by Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS), Washington D.C with support from the Harman Center. Additional support for REPLICA has been provided by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, The New Museum, Musee Carré d’Art in Nîmes, and U.S. Artists International, a program of Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Tickets: $25

For reservations, visit www.arshtcenter.org or call the box office at (305) 949-6722.

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