Artist Collaborative Takes Over Judson Memorial Church For Three Days

NEW YORK, April 30 /PRNewswire/ -- (April 29th-May 1st , 2010) - Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Sq.)

"The amount of beauty created when a choreographer, visual artist, filmmaker and fashion designer, come together is immense. This project is a celebration/collaboration, fashion, performance, painting, pure movement and great filmmaking." -C. Finley

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Finite and Infinite Game  is a collaborative art project between a choreographer, visual artist, filmmaker and fashion designer. This cross-pollination of contemporary art will culminate in a video art movement project. Games, based loosely on a philosophical text by James Carse, is choreographed for ten dancers and seeks to explore the individual's quest to find purpose in life through creation within community. The film is being shot at Judson Church in Greenwich Village, a spectacular space with an illustrious dance history.  Merce Cunningham, Lucinda Childs, Twyla Tharp, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, and Merideth Monk have made brilliant use of the facilities. This happening, captured on RED video, premieres at the Hot Art Fair at Art Basel in Switzerland this June.

Artistic Director and Choreographer, Katherine Helen Fisher, composed nine pure movement performances inspired by choreographers Lucinda Childs, Mark Morris, Moses Pendelton, and others.  Visual artist, C. Finley created a massive (48'x12') relentless, non-repetitive geometric backdrop as a comparative replication of the dance.  RJ Muna, award winning dance photographer and image-maker, directs the performance and will shoot on the Red Camera for three days at Judson. The costumes, designed by GaiMattiolo, are instruments highlighting the beauty and fluidity of each movement. Executive Producer, M.P. Robinson, the force behind thisiswater Productions, has held the vision for this project to be realized.

The entire production is a celebration of unity, color and variety - a riot of pure movement. The musical selections (Reich, Nyman, Glass, among others) feature the singular voice of the saxophone as a representation of the human voice. This project draws from art history's famous vanguard of collaborative artists working within the performing arts, from Digalieve, Massine and Fokine to Childs, Glass, Wilson and Cunningham. This is a representation of collaborative work for the 21st century.

Katherine Helen Fisher, a Brooklyn-based dancer and choreographer, has danced with Lucinda Childs, Mark Morris, MOMIX, ODC/San Francisco, Jennifer Muller/The Works, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER, among others.  Kate graduated from The Baltimore School for the Arts and earned her BFA with honors from Tisch School of The Arts at NYU. 

C. Finley works in New York and Rome. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at GaiMattiolo fashion house in Rome. She has shown internationally, including exhibitions at Aequalis Contemporary, High Energy Constructs, Salon Oblique, Dumba Collective and was the Artist-in-Residence of the Treehouse Gallery Los Angeles in 2007. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute, NYC and her MFA from California State University Long Beach. A recent recipient of an Eszter Cohen grant, C. Finley will wallpaper dumpsters and rubbish receptacles in various cities throughout Europe in 2010. The Wallpapered Dumpsters Project has been featured in the New York Times and in Urban Interventions, published by Gestalten.

To see the evolution of this creative masterpiece, go to: http://www.finiteandinfinitegames.blogspot.com

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