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| Jamie Bishton | Dance : A dance company which reflects the influences Mr. Bishton has experienced with Twyla Tharp Dance and White Oak Dance Project as he places his own movement into the paradigm of modern dance. Jamie Bishton | Dance was founded in 2000, is a nonprofit organizations dedicated to cultivating the public's understanding and appreciation for modern dance through performances and educational activities. The chamber-size company chiefly performs the works of its award-winning artistic director, the choreographer and dancer Jamie Bishton, who is known internationally for his distinctive athletic style. .
List of Works: 2003 "Packed
Away, Not Broken"-
solo Premier: January 11, 2003 In creating this solo for Ashleigh, one of the original dancers I started working with, I wanted to create a sense of moving away, and letting go of an emotional place, or time. The music, with its use of historic Library of Congress Archival sound and specific theme of "home", was exactly what I was looking for.
2002 "You
think you really know me"- solo Premier: September 19, 2002 Joyce SoHo, New York, NY In my ongoing work with Stephanie Laipis, I have been impressed by her remarkable beauty and strength. I choreographed "You think you really know me," in celebration of these qualities. In the piece, I imagined a young woman who, like Stephanie, is coming into her prime. We see her as a solitary figure on a beach at dusk. The piece envisions a woman who has just left a party and thrown off her shoes to enjoy this moment -- a reflection of the life she is leaving behind and the life she is about to begin. W.A. MozartØs Sonata (Trio) in B flat, KV 266 is an early, unfinished chamber piece in which, like Stephanie's character, we are drawn into a brief episode of reflection, intimacy and joy. As with Mozart's work, we don't not know the finale ultimo for StephanieØs character --it is enough to observe these moments of her life as it unfolds.
"From
a Life Together" - duet Premier: September 19, 2002 Joyce SoHo, New York, NY This duet is based on the relationship between the siblings Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, set to Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's only surviving String Quartet (in E flat major). Growing up in the early nineteenth century, both Fanny and Felix were given extensive musical educations. However, their father forbade Fanny from pursuing a career in music, although she was allowed to organize a musical salon in the Mendelssohn home, where her compositions were performed. Despite the restrictions that were placed upon her, she was an active composer and had a very close personal and musical relationship with her brother Felix, influencing his work, as he did hers. In this dance, we view their relationship from Fanny's perspective, which is one of frustration, tolerance, and ultimately acceptance of her fate. Her relationship with her brother is both the cause of great jealousy and envy as well as deep affection and admiration. It wasn't until the last years of her life -- after her father was already dead -- that her brother Felix permitted her compositions to be published, legitimizing Fanny's creative talents at last.
"Things
That Cannot Be Painted"
version 2 Premier: September 19, 2002 Joyce SoHo, New York, NY This dance began life as a work for nine undergraduate students at Barnard College, which commissioned a group piece from me for its fall 2001 season at the Miller theater. In re-examining it for this evening, I have drawn on my original impulses but have extensively re-worked much of the choreography. The title and the costumes are the same, but otherwise this is very much "version 2" -- including a new musical accompaniment. I was listening to NPR one morning and, in between segments of a news program, heard George Hale Jones' work Boll Weevil and was smitten. I researched Mr. Jones' music and discovered his contributions to the soundtrack of a mostly forgettable movie, The General's Daughter. Mr. Jones took recordings of cotton field workers and state penitentiary prisoners from the Library of Congress and edited them into a new song, She Began To Lie. The soundtrack includes two versions (the second is a re-mix) and together, they create the aural bed for this now-septet.
2001 "40"
– solo
"S(Kin)" 1.
"Tr(us)t" 2.
"S(kin)" 3.
"Sp(i)ne" Premier:
June 3rd, 2001- Joyce Soho, New York, NY
"Envy" Premier: July 15th, 2001 – Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Becket, Mass.
"Things
That Cannot Be Painted" Premier: November 15, 2001
1999
Dancer:
Jamie Bishton Premier:
December 9, 1999 Valencia, California
Where we have performed: Joyce
Theater, New York, NY
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