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ONE NIGHT ONLY
Thursday, June 12, 2008 @ 8.30pm and 9.45pm
at Green Street Studios.

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 - Just dreaming, just wondering, just remembering to remember...", is the newest chapter in a continuing series of episodes and multi-media projects spearheaded by Michael Jahoda. For this latest chapter, Jahoda pairs up with Amsterdam based, Dutch percussionist, Robbert van Hulzen to create a site-specific performance-installation with text, dance and live percussion.

For this reprise there will be two performances on the same evening and Boston DJ will spin sounds 8.00-8.30 and 9.15-9.45 pm (before the first performance and between the first and second performances) so audience members can move and cross paths. -

Phillip, the questioning and endearing character that has been seen, heard and experienced in a variety of multi-media manifestations in past episodes, once again takes center stage in this unplugged, acoustic collaboration that combines live percussion, spoken word and dance.

Of Episode 14 , Theodore Bale of the Boston Herald recently wrote for Critical Dance:

"Jahoda is a performer and choreographer of considerable experience and undisputable merit... a versatile lean body that seems to carve through space as if it were an air bubble trapped in infinite solidness. His unique choreography stands out from the local scene for its emphatic style, rich movement vocabulary, and radical approach to the possibilities of even the most mundane space. Jahoda seems to have been born for the stage."

*Please visit the Phillip Project website at www.phillipproject.com to learn more about Phillip, and the Phillip Project. The website includes background information, episode descriptions, and photo and video documentation for episodes 1 through 11.)

Michael Jahoda is a highly respected teacher, dancer and choreographer.

He received a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center in New York City. He joined The Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble and was a principal dancer with Jennifer Muller/The Works in NYC for seven years.

Of Jahoda, Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times wrote, "a superlative dancer of great speed and nuance... with a lightness that makes him look as if he barely touches the floor... he is downright terrific." Rick Whitaker for Dance Magazine wrote "gorgeous control and extravagant impulse and expression...Jahoda is one of the most admirable dancers in town."

Teaching and performing engagements have taken him to Holland, Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark, Italy, Andorra, Austria, Poland, the Czech Rep., Sweden, Finland, Spain, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, Norway, the Caribbean, and to 20 of the United States.

Michael has been invited to teach for various institutes internationally including the TsEKh 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, Charleroi/Danses-Plan K, Brussels, and Balettakademien Göteborg , Sweden, amongst others.

Michael has been a guest faculty member at De Rotterdamse Dansacademie in Rotterdam, the Netherlands since 1994. This past fall, he returned to Europe to teach at the Dansacademie, as well as the CODA Dance Festival in Oslo, Norway and the Henny Jurriens Stichting in Amsterdam.

In 1995, he moved to Germany where he was a guest soloist with Tanz-Forum Köln, under the direction of Jochin Ulrich. He later moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he stayed until 2006. He taught classes and workshops for academies, companies and professional studios throughout Europe. Michael was a core member of Anouk van Dijk's anoukvandijkdc based in Amsterdam and danced in various freelance productions.

In 2001, he began an influential 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.

Of the work by the Phillip Project, Puoli Kaupunkia Helsinki / A Ydinkeskusta wrote:

"The viewer has a special privilege to step into the works' world, rich in form, move within the space as the performance changes and experience Phillip's personal view of freedom on both an intellectual
and emotional level" and de Rotterdams Dagblad wrote "Nothing can compete against the experience of so many contemporary elements, and the respect for so much guts and originality"

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 the White Box Project in Boston 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 and performance projects in Summer 2008 at Green Street Studios, Cambridge and the Gloucester New Arts Festival.

Robbert van Hulzen is a percussionist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Starting out in metal and diving into jazz, he moves between improvised, contemporary, composed, nonwestern, and electronic music. He is mainly focused on the eclectic duo Rara Avis and other projects involving music and dance. He works/worked with the contemporary gamelan ensemble Gending, Nitin Sawhney, theatre group De Maan, film maker Dave Zijlstra and composer Merlijn Twaalfhovenamong others.

See also www.nocount.org and myspace.com/countnocount