BAX to Host 2013 Artist-In-Residence Year End Performances, April-May 2013

BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange has announced the 2013 Artist-In-Residence Year End Performances. Featuring BAX's Artists-In-Residence (AIR), these performances culminate a shared journey through the creative process. Audience members enjoy the rare opportunity to follow a work and engage its creators from the Early Stages through to full productions. This journey began with the Open Studio Series in November, continued with the Works-in Progress Series in January, and culminates in these Spring performances.

Since 1991, BAX's Artist In Residence program has served as a core for the organization's work with artists. The AIR program provides participating artists with one to two years of uninterrupted artistic, technical, and administrative support, as well as the rehearsal space and guidance necessary to take chances, refine their craft and expand their horizons.

April 12th-14th, 2013
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm | Sunday @ 6:00pm
Mariangela Lopez/Accidental Movement's
El regreso
Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income | https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/918500

April 19th-21st, 2013
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm | Sunday @ 6:00pm
Jess Barbagallo and Karen Davis'
Without Me I'm Something
Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income | https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/918501

April 26th-28th, 2013
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm | Sunday @ 6:00pm
Max Steele's
ENCOURAGER
Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income | https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/918502

May 3rd-5th, 2013
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm | Sunday @ 6:00pm
Love | Fortè, A Collective's
Memory Withholdings
Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income | https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/918503

May 10th-12th, 2013
Friday-Saturday @ 8:00pm | Sunday @ 6:00pm
Jillian Peña's
Polly Pocket
Tickets: $15 General | $8 Low-Income | https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/918504

All tickets will be available one month before each performance.

Also, BAX will welcome you to a workshop showing of RoseAnne Spradlin's studies for disappearance on Friday, April 5th, 2013 @ 8:00pm. Suggested Donation: $5 at the door.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES

El regreso
In this piece I am reverting the relationship between the group wonderful performers I have been working with for the past years and me. They will guide me in a physical and emotional journey to find a place that otherwise I can't access; to find the beginning of all.
-Mariangela Lopez

Mariangela Lopez is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer from Caracas, Venezuela. Her pieces have been presented in Venezuela, Mexico, France, Boston, Sydney, and in multiple venues in New York City.

In 2007, Mariangela project Outmigration, a dinner-theater piece was chosen by the New York Times for the "Urban Eye, The Best of New York Today-Weekend". In 2010, Accidental #5 was invited to be part of the Danspace Project Platform Body Madness curated by Judy Hussie-Taylor. Most recently, Mariangela choreographed the "psycho-opera" Stop the Virgens by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' vocalist Karen O, presented by the Creators Project and Saint Ann's Warehouse in October 2011 and at the Vivid Festival in Australia at the Sydney Opera House in May 2012.
Mariangela was a 2009-10 Movement Research Artist in Residence and is currently a Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Artist In Residence (2011-13).

Without Me I'm Something
I will use this residency to develop a project called Without Me I'm Something, a tribute special devoted to the work of comedienne Karen Davis. Functioning as a shadow producer, I will arrange a series of events (and possibly an intervention) to look back on the last two years of Davis's career as a comic in the NYC area. The goal of this project is to reflect on a minor artist's contributions to a myriad of arts scenes and spaces while providing an entertaining evening for anyone just stopping by BAX! For those unfamiliar with Karen, she has performed at Dixon Place, Pete's Candy Store, Barbes, LaMaMa ETC, Uncanny Valley, Lolita Bar, Sugarland and the lobby of The Gershwin Hotel. Openers have included puppeteer Jenny Fresh and poets Joe Ranono and May Lion. Karen has her very own Youtube channel, was profiled in the most recent publication of Emergency Index by Ugly Duckling Presse and can be found on Facebook.
My particular investment in this project is to support overlooked comedic artists who I believe to be feminist and transgressive, if thus unidentified and unsung. I am attracted to the outsider community Karen brings with her (laypeople and inappropriately described "hobbyists") and hope this homespun sentiment can serve as a beacon for others looking to be creatively expressive in a a competitive arts economy. If Karen ever reads this, she will kill me.
-Jess Barbagallo

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