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Michael Jahoda - Episode 14
February 28,29 @ 8pm, March 1 @ 7
& 9pm
at Green Street Studios.
Episode 14 -
Phillip,
just dreaming,
just wondering
just remembering to remember...
Concept and creation
by Michael Jahoda in collaboration with Brian Nelson (USA) and Robbert
van Hulzen (NL)
$15/gen public, $12/students, seniors, Green St and BDA members
Episode 14 is the next chapter and the latest
development in a continuing series of experimental multi-media installation
and performance projects spearheaded by Michael Jahoda, who together
with Pasi Granqvist, created Phillip and the Phillip Project in
Amsterdam to explore the possibilities of collaboration and story
telling.
Phillip, the endearing character that has been
here there and everywhere in past episodes, takes center stage once
again as he reflects on his past, accepts his present and works
towards a more pleasing future.
Michael Jahoda is the face behind Phillip. In
Episode 14 - he collaborates with percussionists Brian Nelson and
Robbert van Hulzen to create an acoustic episode that takes Phillip
back to his roots and propels him into a new unknown future.
Phillip finally comes fully un-plugged
in a virtuosic collaborative experiment that draws on the visceral
power of live percussion, theater and dance. To learn more about
Michael Jahoda, Phillip, the Phillip Project and past episodes please
visit www.phillipproject.com
Michael Jahoda is teacher, dancer and choreographer
from Schenectady, NY.
In 1986 he received a scholarship to the Alvin
Ailey American Dance Center in New York City and subsequently joined
The Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble. He was a principle dancer with
Jennifer Muller/The Works in NYC for seven years.
Michael and has been invited to teach for
various institutes internationally including the Tsech Festival-Moscow,
DV8-United Kingdom, Arena 225-Zurich, de Theater School, Amsterdam,
Artemis Kunstcentrum / Henny Jurriens Stichting, Amsterdam, the
Kölner Tanz Agentur-Cologne, Stadt Theater Linz-Austria, Charlerois/Dances-Plan
K, Brussels, and Balettakademien Goteborg, Sweden, amongst others.
In 2001 he began an important collaboration
with Finnish video artist Pasi Granqvist. Michael and Pasi formed
the Phillip Project, an artistic collaboration based in Amsterdam
that created a series of interrelated multi-media episodes that
ranged from five-hour performance-installations to club performances
to intricate sound and film installations. These episodes have revolved
around Phillip, a fictitious character that is the leitmotif of
the Phillip Project. Recent chapters have been seen at the Gloucester
New Arts Festival (GNAF), and at Green Street Studios. Episode 14-
just dreaming, just wondering, just remembering to remember is the
latest chapter in the series.
For a detailed and interactive perspective
on the Phillip Project and the participation of its members please
view the project?s website: www.phillipproject.com.
Michael is currently living in Boston, teaching
and mentoring student choreographers at Boston University, and creating
his own work. He has also created a new initiative called the White
Box Project to initiate a high level of research and development
in the dance field and facilitate new types of collaborations with
creative artists from fields as varied as interior design, the culinary
arts, comedy, and of course, dance. The White Box Project plans
to stage its first research projects in late spring and mid summer
2008.
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