Once again FMT Co-Director has been invited to join the selection committee for the Live Media and Performance category of the Celeste Prize 2011.

The prize has been established to promote international contemporary art in the widest possible sense. There will be a final art exhibition with 50 artworks, a final catalogue of circa 150 pages with circa 120 illustrated works of art and critical texts, as well as 5 prize awards and benefits totaling 30,000 €. The exhibition of finalist works, voting and awards will take place at The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, New York, 11-13 November 2011.

The 50 finalist artists will be chosen by a selection comittee of international art critics and curators led by Eugene Tan. Each selector will make his or her personal choices known in public, onsite. We all share the value in having clear and open processes. With this in mind, you will see each selectors’ choices online by early September, and understand exactly how 50 works made the final exhibition in New York according to the majority-preference principle.

Visit The Celeste Prize website for more information and to submit work.

ReVision by Forward Motion Theater
presented by The Tank

Date: Friday and Saturday, January 14-15, 2011
Time: 8PM
pre-show 7:30PM

The Tank
354 West 45th Street (bet. 8th & 9th Ave)
A/C/E to 42nd Street/Port Authority
Tickets: $15 advance, $18 at door
Purchase: BUY ONLINE or at the door
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/139354

Six independent works by Performing Artists incorporating
Technology, Dance, Spoken Word, Costume, and Music

featuring:
Blue Muse Dance
Kim Gibilisco Dances
Wetcircuit
Eric Dunlap
Jon Keith Brunelle
Mikhail Torich
Urban Wash Dance
DJ SphinX

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Bearnstow Presents The Nikolais Centennial Alumni Concerts

As the celebration of Alwin Nikolais’ Centennial continues, Eric Dunlap teams up with fellow alum Kim Gilbilisco to present a dance and video work in the Nikolais Tradition.

The Interdisciplinary Studio Theater at Hunter College
Enter 69th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
December 3 and 4, 8 p.m.

Alwin Nikolais’s Former Company Members and
Dancers from His Tradition Present Their Works:

Choreographers and Presenters on Friday, December 3, 2010:
Bob Beswick, Beverly Blossom, Janis Brenner, Kim Gibilisco & Eric Dunlap, Claudia Gitelman,
Sally Gross, Timothy Harling, Steven Iannacone, Kathy Kroll, Murray Louis, Chris Reisner

Choreographers and Presenters on Saturday, December 4, 2010:
Beverly Blossom, Janis Brenner, Susan Creitz, Peter Kyle, Murray Louis, Suzy MacDermaid Fridell,
Lynn Needle, Jody Oberfelder, Chris Reisner, Dorothy Vislocky, Maida Withers

Works by Murray Louis presented by Janis Brenner & Dancers, and Peter Kyle
Work by Beverly Blossom performed by Christine Reisner
Lobby presentations by Mimi Garrard and Ruth Grauert

Reservations at SmartTix, 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com.

Preferred seating: $25.00; General seating: $20.00; Seating on floor mats: $15.00

We gratefully acknowledge the following persons for their contributions to these events: Beth Bagnold, Tandy Beal, Anne Berry, Bob Beswick, Jan Connor, Kitty Cunningham, Virginia Dillon, Suzy Friedel, Cathy Heath Gaedje, Mimi Garrard, Claudia Gitelman, George Gracey, Tim Harling, Steven Iannacone, Claudia Melrose, Nusha Martynuk, Lynn Needle, Gerald Otte, Fred Timm, Steven Vendola, Maida Withers, and Joan Woodbury.

Download the latest Centennial Concerts flyer (PDF). Please print and distribute.

FMT Director Eric Dunlap was asked to participate in the Celeste Prize 2010 as judge for the Live Media & Performance category.

Open Call – Celeste Prize 2010 New York from celeste.prize on Vimeo.

In this second edition, 50 finalist works have been selected by a unique, innovative and totally ‘open’ process, in which each of the 23 international selectors have published online their choices. Final exhibition & awards of the 2nd Edition of Celeste Prize 2010 will take place on December 11 at the Invisible Dog, New York.

How to get to the exhibition:
The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
Between Smith & Court streets
* Subway F or G, Bergen Street stop.
* Bus 57.
* by car from Manhattan.
Take the Brooklyn Bridge and continue straight until the corner Bergen Street / Boerum Place.

Opening Hours:
Saturday 11 December from 10am to late.
Sunday and Monday 12-13 December from 10am to 6pm.

Celeste Prize Website

The Progeny of Alwin Nikolais: From Digital to Analog Technology

FMT founder Eric Dunlap joins fellow Nikolais Alumni Mimi Garrard, Tim Glenn, and Lisa Naugle discuss Nikolais’ influence on their own work and will present examples. Claudia Gitelman, moderator.

Monday, November 1, 2010 – 6:00 PM EDT
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Third Floor
(Map and directions)
Fully accessible to wheelchairs

This program presented in conjunction with the exhibition Alwin Nikolais’ Total Theater of Motion on display in the Performing Arts Library’s Astor Gallery from October 21, 2010 through January 15, 2011.

For more information on the exhibition visit the NYPL for the Performing Arts.