A prelude to the 2004 festival will occur in just a few weeks, on June 21, when TEVERETERNO will mark the solstice in the cloister of San Pietro in Vincoli.

There will be performances of She-shadows, a series of short animation pieces created by students at Accademia delle Belli Arti and Istituto Europeo di Design, accompanied by music commissioned from Alvin Curran.

Please RSVP to Sarah Kornfeld Ciabattari sarah@bvnwgroup.com or call 415 246 9654
 

BvNW Group is very pleased to have a new consulting partner, Amy Francetic, who will work with Sarah as an executive leader as we develop relationships with academic and commercial laboratories.

Amy brings extraordinary expertise, passion and knowledge to our work. A serial CEO, she is an expert and recognized analyst in the wireless and gaming spaces. We are thrilled to be working with her.
 

1. Zaccho Dance Theatre, San Francisco - Zaccho Dance Theatre is an extraordinary company specializing in aerial choreography and site specific works of multiple scale.

   [ ZACCHO NEWS ]

   "Top 10 Dance Moments of 2002", Jennifer Dunning, New York Times

   "A little night music', Jennnifer Duning, New York Times
   "Joanna Haigood is the latest artist to respond to the neighborhood's haunting allure. And her "Picture Red Hook," performed on Saturday night by her Zaccho Dance Theater, based in San Francisco, is a beauty. Ms. Haigood has a special gift for revisiting history and bringing it alive in unexpected ways."

   

2. The Foundry, San Francisco - Multidisciplinary performance group (trained as ballet dancers) are creating new forms of dance/theater utilizing its Ballet heritage along with various experimental dance practices, incorporating emerging new media, film and music.

   Dance Magazine has placed The Foundry on their "25 to Watch" list of emerging artists for 2003.

   [ FOUNDRY NEWS ]

   'Fleshing' out ideas in dance
   Foundry's latest is powerful piece about loneliness" Octavio Roca, San Francisco Chronicle

   "In the dawn of the 21st, dance is returning to meaning, to important themes, to drama and musicality as well as to renewed technical virtuosity. The Foundry is at the vanguard of American dance."
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   "Foundry takes Bay Area dance to the next stage." Octavio Roca, San Francisco Chronicle

   "The Foundry's choreography so far tends to bear the stamp of classical rigor even at its most unpredictable; it is elegant at its most improvisational. Burns and Ketley's imagination has a way of suggesting the processes between the steps."
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Review of Amy Hotch's installation "Interstices"
New York Times
ART REVIEW
August 9, 2002
Rain or Shine, Residing Outdoors By HOLLAND COTTER

Snug Harbor Cultural Center

Perhaps the most intimate - certainly the most extensive - match of indoor and outdoor sculpture to its site can be found in and around the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor on Staten Island. The Newhouse's director of visual arts, Olivia Georgia, invited more than two dozen artists from around the world to create art that relates in some way to the island's picturesque north shore, which lies in the shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and has sweeping views of New York Harbor.

Best of all, though, is Amy Hotch's indoor work at the Alice Austen House, a museum of unusual interest on its own. Austen (1866-1952), a self-trained amateur photographer who left behind an extraordinary pictorial legacy, lived in this harbor-facing house - an 18th-century Dutch homestead turned into a Victorian mansion - for most of her life, until poverty forced her into the Staten Island poor house, where she died.

The building is now a public historic site, though Austen is still very much in evidence in Ms. Hotch's tender, spirit-summoning work, which consists mostly of nearly inconspicuous video installations. Look through a keyhole and you see figures climbing stairs or moving about a room; at the bottom of a sugar bowl two women in 18th-century gowns sip tea. (Austen shared the house with her longtime partner, Gertrude Tate.) In the parlor, waves of harbor water splash across the walls, turning Austen's house - which she called Clear Comfort - into a piece of living sculpture where outside and inside are one.