When the World Smells Like Bacon and other works

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2001 |

“first-rate theater with a surprising edge of poignancy” The New York Times

PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 AND BIGMANARTS

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WHEN THE WORLD SMELLS LIKE BACON and other works

PROGRAM

WHEN THE WORLD SMELLS LIKE BACON (2001)

Written and performed by Lawrence Goldhuber
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel

Commissioned by Performance Space 122 with funds from The Jerome Foundation.

 

FILM: HEAD DUET (2000)

Directed by Gretchen Bender
Choreographed by Goldhuber & Latsky
Music by Joe Jackson

Commisioned by The Joyce Theater Altogether Different Fund for New Worksand produced with the generous support ofJohn and Sage Cowles, Jerome Goldhuber, Pierre Apraxine, and Cindy Sherman.


SOY (I AM)  (1998)

Choreographed by Goldhuber & Latsky
Costume by Liz Prince
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel
Music sung by Lola Beltran


FILM: COMMERCIAL REEL

KING KONG (excerpt from LOVE DEFINED) (1992)

Choreographed by Bill T. Jones
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel
Music by Daniel Johnston

This work was originally commissioned by the Lyon Opera Ballet.


FILM: THE FIGHT (1992)

Directed by Nuria Olive-Belles
featuring Javier DeFrutos and Ramon Baeza


DANCES WITH WOLVES (2001)

Performed by Keely Garfield and Lawrence Goldhuber
Choreographed by Lawrence Goldhuber with Keely Garfield
Music by Esquivel, Astaire, Khacaturian, Aretha, Elvis.
Set Design by Gisela Stromeyer
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel


Commissioned by Performance Space 122 with funds from The Jerome Foundation. It has also been made possible by a generous space grant through the 92nd Street Y-Harkness Dance Program. (2000)

 

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Collaborators

Nuria Olive-Belles
Film maker
Nuria was born in Barcelona, Spain, where she began her studies in dance. In 1986, she received a grant to study at Merce Cunningham School in New York City, where she continues to reside. She was invited to perform and choreograph at the American Dance Festival as an International Choreographer for two consecutive years and was commissioned to perform her work in such New York venues as The Kitchen, Dance Theatre Workshop, Performance Space122 and DiaCenter for the Arts. She studied film directing at the School of Visual Arts, graduating with honors in 1994. Her second film, The Fight, won the Golden Dinosaur Egg at Poland's Krakow Film Festival and second prize in the Cinevue International Film Festival, Canada. Her fourth film, Alicia Was Fainting, won Best Picture, Best Editing and Best Directing at the 5th Annual Dusty Awards. Other awards include: the Rodhes Family Award for Outstanding Scholastic Achievement; Bravo Independent Channel IFC 1994, Outstanding Student Filmmaker Award and the Silver Award at the National Education Media Film Festival, California. Her feature film The Domain of the Senses, episode Touch, won the audience award in the Alcalá de Henares Film Festival, Madrid. She was the resident filmmaker for two years at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Her most recent documentary, InvisibleWings, was selected for the BBC British Short Film Festival, London, 1999 and the Dance on Camera Film Festival, New York, 2000
Bill T. Jones
Choreographer
BILL T. JONES (Artistic Director/Co-Founder/Choreographer: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company; Artistic Director: New York Live Arts) was the Associate Artist of the 2020 Holland Festival and recipient of the 2014 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award; the 2013 National Medal of Arts; the 2010 Kennedy Center Honors; a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography of the critically acclaimed Fela!; a 2007 Tony Award, 2007 Obie Award, and 2006 Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Callaway Award for his choreography for Spring Awakening; the 2010 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award; 2007 USA Eileen Harris Norton Fellowship; 2006 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Choreography for The Seven; 2005 Wexner Prize; the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement; 2005 Harlem Renaissance Award; 2003 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize; and a 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award. In 2010, Jones was recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government, and in 2000, The Dance Heritage Coalition named Jones “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure.” Bill has been nominated for the 2022 Tony Awards for his work on Paradise Square. Jones choreographed and performed worldwide with his late partner, Arnie Zane, before forming the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1982. He has created more than 140 works for his company. Jones is Artistic Director of New York Live Arts, an organization that strives to create a robust framework in support of the nation’s dance and movement-based artists through new approaches to producing, presenting, and educating.
Goldhuber & Latsky
Company
The 1997 recipients of the Scripps/ADF Primus-Tamaris Fellowship for Choreography, Heidi Latsky and Lawrence Goldhuber first worked together as dancers in the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. They have been creating work together since 1993 when they were commissioned by the Cannes International Festival de Danse. Other commissions include The Joyce Theater, The American Dance Festival, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Teatro Libero Palermo, Celebrate Brooklyn!, and two from Performance Space 122.
Keely Garfield
Dancer, Choreographer
Keely, originally from London, England, has lived in New York City since 1986. She has received numerous commissions for her work, and has been presented at many theaters and festivals both nationally and internationally. Among other endeavors, Garfield has created work for ballet dancers (Dance Theatre of Harlem), antique puppets (Golem, Chechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre), musical theater (Gypsy, Sundance Theatre, Utah, Carnival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), children (Reel to Real, Lincoln Center), students (Barnard, Hunter), and MTV. Garfield is a curator (with Peggy Peloquin) of Dance Theater Workshop's Family Matters series, and serves as the chair of DTW's Artist Committee. Highlights include: Deep (The Joyce Theater), Disturbing The Peace (Zenon Dance Company, MN), Iron Lung (Groundworks Dancetheater, OH), and Disturbulance (Dance Theater Workshop), Scent of Mental Love (Film for Radio Bremen/Canal Arte), and most recently Line & Sink Her (Danspace Project). Keely is very happy to be working again with Larry, her dearest pal! For more information visit www.keelygarfield.org
Gregory L. Bain
Production Design/PSM
Gregory has been active in media technologies, arts administration, theatre production, commercial and theatrical lighting design, sound design and stage management, as well as audio and video recording technologies, since 1971. During 30+ years of extensive world touring with numerous theatre, music, and dance companies, Mr. Bain has also co-directed a New York City based production company, GLB Presents. In 2003, Gregory directed his media technologies career, and stage management and theatre crafts skills toward becoming more active in early childhood education, human development, and social service activities that promote education, empowerment, and advancement opportunities within underprivileged and underserved families and communities. In 2007 Mr. Bain received a Masters Degree in social work (MSW). 2008 celebrates his 22nd year of collaborating with Lawrence Goldhuber.
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