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Series 3 | TanzFEED | Erik Thurmond + Malcom Low.
Tanz Farm season III: A Performance Anthology
series 3: March 11-28, 2015
"In the thrust towards the future...I want to leave something of use"
Artists FEED: Erik + Malcom
Tuesday, May 24 at 7pm.
Join us for an intimate conversation with Atlanta artist Erik Thurmond and New York artist Malcom Low.
free and public
spirits will be served.
info@tanzfarm.com
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"In the thrust towards the future...I want to leave something of use"
Erik Thurmond (ATL) WORLD PREMIERE | Malcom Low + Formal Structure ( New York) Atlanta PREMIERE
PERFORMANCES
Thursday-Saturday, March 26-28, 2015
3 performances only.
Tickets: $10-$25
"In the thinking of Tanz Farm curators Lauri Stallings and Anthony Harper, such plans are necessary for their bundle of courageous arts initiatives to take root in Atlanta. To build an audience that truly loves and supports contemporary performance, people at many levels of the community have to engage with the work." ---ArtsATL
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About the artists
Erik Thurmond was born in Georgia and raised all over. After graduating from the dance department at Alabama School of Fine Arts, he finished programs at American Music and Dramatic Academy and Alvin Ailey School in NYC. While living in New York, Erik worked at Peridance were he met many of the choreographers he ended up working with. After 5 years in New York, Erik spent 2 years traveling and dancing across Europe and the Middle East. After 9 months studying with Batsheva in Tel Aviv, Israel, he returned to Georgia where he currently dances for CORE Performance Company, Staibdance and other local artists in addition to creating his own work. Erik has presented work through The Lucky Penny, Dance Truck, WonderRoot and Mint Gallery, as well as self-produced pieces both in Atlanta and Birmingham.
Erik believes that dance is the ultimate celebration of the present moment. www.erikmarcelthurmond.com
Malcolm Low was selected in 2011 for a Choreographic Fellowship in Robert Battle's New Directions Choreography Lab at Alvin Ailey. Originally from Chicago where he first trained with Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Homer Bryant and the Ruth Page Foundation, Malcolm went on to perform with Joseph Holmes Chicago Dance Co., Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Ballet British Columbia, Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Stephen Petronio, Complexions, Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers, Margo Sappington and most notably the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., where he spent 5 wonderful years and had the great pleasure of touring with Bill T. Jones on his solo show, As I Was Saying. In 2005, Malcolm worked with Crystal Pite and her company, KIDD PIVOT, on the project, LOST ACTION. Malcolm has most recently worked with David Thomson on a new duet called Velvet that premiered at Roulette, and with Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group at New York Live Arts. He has also worked with Ralph Lemon on his "Parallels The END" project at Danspace. Mr. Low also performed with John Jasperse Company this year for Monday Nights at Judson Church. As a choreographer, Malcolm most recently has choreographed a work called One Forgotten Moment for Alvin Ailey 2, which will be performed again in 2014. He has been showing work since 1999 at the River to River Dance Festival in collaboration with DJ Spooky (2003), The House That Jack Built (2009), Catch n Release Variations #35 at Harlem Stage/Emoves (2009), Luscious Colors of an Unclear Canvas at the Wave Rising Series (2009 and 2011), Bookoo Space Grant (2011), Pushing Against Sisyphus at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2011), Summer Stage at Red Hook Park (2011) and Main Stage 2012. Malcolm was awarded a BAX Passing It Down Award (2011), a Fund for New Work/Harlem Stage Gatehouse Grant (2009), and in 2012 was awarded the MCAF from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Mr. Low will be the Artist in Residence at Queens Community College for the year 2014. formalstructure.com
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Tanz Farm season III: October 29, 2014- May 24, 2015
Tanz Farm is a joint vision of artists and real estate developers to establish a historic factory space as an inter/national destination for current practices and philosophies in contemporary performance. Tanz Farm produces unique performance projects by artists and creates chance-of-a-lifetime experiences for our Atlanta community. We make significant investments in the performance community to help increase the quality of new work being created and exchanged. In doing so, we contribute to the vitality of arts and culture in the Southeast by helping launch careers while growing audiences for experimental performances.
Launched in 2012 by glo and the Goat Farm Arts Center, Tanz's mission is anchored in the agency of risk-taking and expanding boundaries through bold ideas and philosophies centered in performance. Since its inception, Tanz has featured seminal performances by zoe/juniper (Seattle), Niv Sheinfeld& Oren Laor (Tel Aviv), Staib Dance (Atlanta), Fabien Prioville (Dusseldorf), glo (Atlanta), Sidra Bell New York, Amanda K. Miller/ CORE Dance (Atlanta), Catellier Dance Projects (Atlanta), Pierre Rigal ( Toulouse), Gustavo RimerezSansano (Valencia) with Ballet Hispanico New York and L.A.'s ate9dANCEcOMPANY.
Our primary activities include a 4-part performance series, resources that provide selected artists with technical residencies, free space, advocacy and marketing, as well as a range of public initiatives that provide greater access to in-depth information and social involvement between artists and our community. All Tanz Farm programming is framed around a remarkable 116-year old historic factory space called Goodson Yard, at the Goat Farm Arts Center.
Curators Lauri Stallings, founding artist, glo and Anthony Harper, owner of The Goat Farm Arts Center.
Tanz Farm takes place at the Goat Farm Arts Center
1200 Foster St.
Atlanta 30318
Write us: info@tanzfarm.com
www.tanzfarm.com
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1200 Foster St
Atlanta, GA 30318
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