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Artist Statement
My performance work combines visual art, dance, theater, costume design, and installation. I create and construct all these elements myself. I often maneuver objects and people throughout the performance, sometimes taking part in the action, sometimes observing.
I aim to subvert the hierarchy of the theatrical/choreographic components and the visual elements that adorn the traditional stage experience. I wish to shift the viewer’s focus by bringing the “decor” into the foreground while, through reductive means, allowing the performative action to recede. My aim is for the various aspects of a performance - narrative, choreographic, scenic, textual, etc. - to hold equal value in the experience of the work; or at least to offer alternating points of focus, leaving the viewer free to navigate these layers of information as the piece unfolds. I work in close collaboration with the lighting designer and composer to incorporate those elements as well. I create performances for both traditional and non-traditional theater spaces as well as galleries and site specific locations.
I am interested in time dislocations - layering images from history and the present to create events driven by their own internal logic. I like to break down what I’ve built up - devising hyper-constructed environments that give themselves over to chance and process, always on the verge of collapse or transformation.
My performance work combines visual art, dance, theater, costume design, and installation. I create and construct all these elements myself. I often maneuver objects and people throughout the performance, sometimes taking part in the action, sometimes observing.
I aim to subvert the hierarchy of the theatrical/choreographic components and the visual elements that adorn the traditional stage experience. I wish to shift the viewer’s focus by bringing the “decor” into the foreground while, through reductive means, allowing the performative action to recede. My aim is for the various aspects of a performance - narrative, choreographic, scenic, textual, etc. - to hold equal value in the experience of the work; or at least to offer alternating points of focus, leaving the viewer free to navigate these layers of information as the piece unfolds. I work in close collaboration with the lighting designer and composer to incorporate those elements as well. I create performances for both traditional and non-traditional theater spaces as well as galleries and site specific locations.
I am interested in time dislocations - layering images from history and the present to create events driven by their own internal logic. I like to break down what I’ve built up - devising hyper-constructed environments that give themselves over to chance and process, always on the verge of collapse or transformation.
CV
Walter Dundervill
Brooklyn, NY
Performances
2010/2011
“Aesthetic Destiny Part 1: Candy Mountain” - Dance Theater Workshop, NYC (upcoming Feb 2011)
“Untitled” - Callicoon Fine Arts (upcoming July 2010)
“Dear Emissary,...” - The Chocolate Factory Theater, NYC
2009
“Room” – Fred Torres Collaborations, NYC- 3 hour performance installation
“Buddy List” - group show at Space 414, Brooklyn, curated by Nathan Lee
2008
“You Wrote The Book” - Dance Theater Workshop NYC
2007
“Would You Read My Poetry?” - Dance Theater Workshop, NYC part of the Nothing Festival curated by Tere O’Connor
Special Projects
2010/2011
Co-curator of Movement Research Spring 2010 Festival
Costume design for Luciana Achugar’s “Puro Deseo”, The Kitchen, NYC
2009
Set design for Tere O’Connor’s “Wrought Iron Fog” (in collaboration with O’Connor), Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
2005/2002
set design for RoseAnne Spradlin’s Bessie Award winning “under/world” (2002) and “Nova” (2005) in collaboration with Spradlin
Recogonition
2010/2011
Movement Research Artist in Residence
2003
NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for performance in RoseAnne Spradlin’s “under/world”
Reviews/Interviews
2010
Time Out NY, March 4-10 - preview article, Gia Kourlis
NY Times, March 10 - review, Claudia La Rocca
Village Voice, March 16 - review, Deborah Jowitt
danceviewtimes.com, March 16, review - Martha Sherman
Critical Correspondance, March 12 - interview, Jon Kinzel, (audio file, movementresearch.org)
2008
NY Times, March 28 - review, Gia Kourlis
Village Voice, April 1 - review, Deborah Jowitt
Performer
1999 - 2008
RoseAnne Spradlin Dance (Bessie Award 2003)
2009
Simone Forti - exhibit at MOMA, NYC - solo and group performance
2008
Edouard Getaz - “Freud’s Magic Powder”, film 2004
Keely Garfield - “Disturbulance” at Dance Theater Workshop
2005
Keely Garfield/Marcus Behrens - film version of “Disturbulance” , co-production of German and French public television
2005
Robert Melee’s Talent Show at the Kitchen
2001
Kembra Phaler - Anthology Film Archives
1998 - 2000
Li Chiao Ping Dance
1999 - 2000
Heidi Latsky
1995
Bruce Nauman - retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, NYC - weekly solo performance of Nauman’s “Slightly Crouched” throughout the run of the exhibition
1994 -1998
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
1989
David Wojnarowicz, Ben Neill, and Gloria McLean - “ITSOFOMO” at the Kitchen, NYC
1989 - 1993
Gloria McLean Lifedance
1989 - 1992
Yves Musard and Vadancers
1987 - 1992
Pat Olezsko - various performances
Education/Training
1997 - 1998
Trisha Brown Studio - Merit Scholarship
1992 - 1994
Merce Cunningham Professional Training Program - Merit Scholarship
1987
University of Georgia, BFA cum laude in Painting and Drawing - Scholarship in Visual Art
Walter Dundervill
Brooklyn, NY
Performances
2010/2011
“Aesthetic Destiny Part 1: Candy Mountain” - Dance Theater Workshop, NYC (upcoming Feb 2011)
“Untitled” - Callicoon Fine Arts (upcoming July 2010)
“Dear Emissary,...” - The Chocolate Factory Theater, NYC
2009
“Room” – Fred Torres Collaborations, NYC- 3 hour performance installation
“Buddy List” - group show at Space 414, Brooklyn, curated by Nathan Lee
2008
“You Wrote The Book” - Dance Theater Workshop NYC
2007
“Would You Read My Poetry?” - Dance Theater Workshop, NYC part of the Nothing Festival curated by Tere O’Connor
Special Projects
2010/2011
Co-curator of Movement Research Spring 2010 Festival
Costume design for Luciana Achugar’s “Puro Deseo”, The Kitchen, NYC
2009
Set design for Tere O’Connor’s “Wrought Iron Fog” (in collaboration with O’Connor), Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
2005/2002
set design for RoseAnne Spradlin’s Bessie Award winning “under/world” (2002) and “Nova” (2005) in collaboration with Spradlin
Recogonition
2010/2011
Movement Research Artist in Residence
2003
NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for performance in RoseAnne Spradlin’s “under/world”
Reviews/Interviews
2010
Time Out NY, March 4-10 - preview article, Gia Kourlis
NY Times, March 10 - review, Claudia La Rocca
Village Voice, March 16 - review, Deborah Jowitt
danceviewtimes.com, March 16, review - Martha Sherman
Critical Correspondance, March 12 - interview, Jon Kinzel, (audio file, movementresearch.org)
2008
NY Times, March 28 - review, Gia Kourlis
Village Voice, April 1 - review, Deborah Jowitt
Performer
1999 - 2008
RoseAnne Spradlin Dance (Bessie Award 2003)
2009
Simone Forti - exhibit at MOMA, NYC - solo and group performance
2008
Edouard Getaz - “Freud’s Magic Powder”, film 2004
Keely Garfield - “Disturbulance” at Dance Theater Workshop
2005
Keely Garfield/Marcus Behrens - film version of “Disturbulance” , co-production of German and French public television
2005
Robert Melee’s Talent Show at the Kitchen
2001
Kembra Phaler - Anthology Film Archives
1998 - 2000
Li Chiao Ping Dance
1999 - 2000
Heidi Latsky
1995
Bruce Nauman - retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, NYC - weekly solo performance of Nauman’s “Slightly Crouched” throughout the run of the exhibition
1994 -1998
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
1989
David Wojnarowicz, Ben Neill, and Gloria McLean - “ITSOFOMO” at the Kitchen, NYC
1989 - 1993
Gloria McLean Lifedance
1989 - 1992
Yves Musard and Vadancers
1987 - 1992
Pat Olezsko - various performances
Education/Training
1997 - 1998
Trisha Brown Studio - Merit Scholarship
1992 - 1994
Merce Cunningham Professional Training Program - Merit Scholarship
1987
University of Georgia, BFA cum laude in Painting and Drawing - Scholarship in Visual Art
Dear Emissary,... performance still, 2010
Dear Emissary,... performance still, 2010
Dear Emissary,... performance still, 2010
Dear Emissary…,performance still, 2010
Dear Emissary…,performance still, 2010
Dear Emissary,...performance still, 2010
You Wrote the Bookperformance still, 2008
You Wrote the Bookperformance still, 2008
You Wrote the Bookperformance still, 2008
You Wrote the Bookperformance still, 2008
You Wrote the Bookperformance still, 2008
You Wrote the Bookperformance still, 2008