GRAHAM CRACKER SUITE
Collaboration with Martha Graham Dance Company
January 14th to February 5th 2003
Opening Reception Tues January 14th 6-8pm
Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary
14 Charles Lane, NYC 10014
t. 212 807-6669 f. 645-074
www.RoveTV.net schachter@mindspring.com
Hours: Tues - Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Between West
and Washington Streets Perry and Charles Streets
Founded in 1926 by
dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, the Martha
Graham Dance Company is the oldest and most celebrated
contemporary dance company in America. Martha Graham
choreographed 181 works in her lifetime. The Martha
Graham Dance Company begins a two-week season at The
Joyce Theater on January 22. With this new season,
the first for the company in New York in four years,
the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance resumes
regular seasons and touring engagements, showcasing
the legacy of the great choreographer of modern dance.
The two-week New York season repertory spans eight
decades: from early solos and stark all-women group
works to the acclaimed classics with many of Isamu
Noguchi's most beautiful sets, recovered original
lighting, and costumes by Martha Graham and Calvin
Klein.
Continuing the long
and rich tradition of artists collaborating with dance,
Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary will stage a photography
and video show in the Vito Acconci designed exhibition
space in collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance
Company. The artists in the exhibit will each offer
up a reflection of their own personal interpretation
of Martha Graham and/or members of the Dance Company.
Breaking with the traditional approach of artist's
involvement with dance via set or costume design,
the artists in this exhibit will propose a more idiosyncratic
process. Work in the show will range from depictions
of the dancer's feet and legs to images gleaned from
the warehouse where sets, costumes and ephemera are
crated away and stored between tours. Additionally,
actual Graham costumes and fragments from Noguchi
designed sets, reflecting the long collaboration between
the artist and choreographer, will be on display.
Chi Modu, a
noted rap music photographer who shot the last pictures
of Tupac Shakur (which appear on his just debuted
posthumous CD cover) as well as many covers for Source
Magazine;
Richard Kern,
who exhibits at Feature Gallery in NYC and has published
two Taschen books;
Michael Lavine,
a widely published rock music and celebrity photographer
(Noise from the Underground: A Secret History of Alternative
Music, Simon & Schuster) and artist;
Devon Dikeou,
publisher of Zing Magazine and internationally exhibited
artist;
Rosalie Knox,
photographer for ID Magazine (UK) and other magazines
and fine art photographer, who will have her first
one person show at ConTEMPorary in 2003;
Frank W. Ockenfels,
a world-renowned commercial photographer.
