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Nasim Haroun Mahdavi, Slick Photography by Ashley Woo   www.AshleyWoo.com

2010 at The Rover…

September 10-12, 8pm

“QuikSnap”…A Brand New Series

(Friday-Sunday, All Shows at 8pm, Doors Open at 7:15pm. This show is not kid friendly.  Children under 18 not admitted without parent.)

“QuikSnap” is a brand new series at The Rover generated by a call for submissions, asking artists to meet the challenge of creating something collaborative within the wide territories of Dance, Performance Art, Photography, Music, Video Art, Theater, Site Specific Rooftop work, and Film. After selection, they were given 6 hours of free rehearsal time to collaborate in the space with artists they were matched up with by The Rover, based on their specific requests outlined in their submissions. With only three weeks of preparation, The Rover has been introduced to the buzzing creative chaos of 12 new artists, new ideas, and new collaborations in the hopes of diversifying audiences and opening our ‘circle’ of the art we love to see.  Artist chosen to participate in this explorative, process-oriented round of QuikSnap:   Ryan Buynak, Jessica Delfino, Jenny Efremova,  Kate Griffler / 121 Dance Project, Adrian Jevicki / Movement Pants, Ann Mazzocca and Jennifer Brogle Jones, Aaron McGloin, Cavin Moore, Carson Reiners, Run Shayo, and Lara Wilson.  Tickets are $10-$15 and can be purchased at the door (cash only) or by reserving at  128421

September 17-20, 8pm and 3pm

(Friday, September 17 and Saturday, September 18 at 8pm and Sunday, September 19, at 3pm.  This show is SUPER kid friendly..)

The Rover Presents…Tribe of Human and The Batteries Duo

Members of The Tribe:     Hannah Darrah, Aaron McGloin, Nasim HarounMahdavi, Lynda Senisi, and Lara Wilson

The Batteries Duo, comprised of electronic musicians and trumpeters, Josh Frank and Gareth Flowers, along with choreographer Rani Welch, founder and Art Director of The Rover Soho, collaborate for the first time with live music/dance based on the Batteries Duo’s album, Les Amusements. Premiering at the same venue, the show will run Friday, September 17th, 8pm, Saturday, September 18, 8pm and Sunday, September 19, 3pm, at 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door (cash only) or for reservations128420

This show is an exploration of the abstract and ambient sounds of Frank and Flowers and is truly brought to life with Welch’s otherworldly and of-this-moment storytelling. Be prepared….the show breaks through traditional notions of “audience/performer” roles. Dancers begin blocks away outside, stopping traffic, and drawing the audience in. From there the show seeps through the space and out onto The Rover rooftop, bodies atop the old brick, standing like city fixtures that move and hum. Culminating at the main stage will be ‘Tribe of Human’ with live accompaniment from the fresh, uncanned, and fascinating new sounds of ‘The Batteries Duo‘ www.thebatteriesduo.com.

The Rover Soho is a brand new gallery/performance venue with a vision to stretch your artistic arm, as well as your imagination.

For more information on: Tribe of Human, contact Rani Welch (646) 808-9080 or email Rani@TheRoverSoho.com. Batteries Duo, contact Josh Frank (917) 742-6040.  For Press Inquiries:  Press@TheRoverSoho.com

Tuesday, September 21, 8pm

Sunday Brunch at The Rover

Indulgent, Leisurely, Satisfying…..

Photographed by Christy Walsh, Drawing by Michael Chang

Moving in to The Rover September 22

“Lamp Forest”

September 25-26, 7pm

The Rover Presents “Summer Winds”

Works by Kelley Donovan, Jessica Taylor, Diane Tomasi, and Aaron McGloin

(Saturday and Sunday at 7pm. This show is kid friendly..)

Above…Donovan and Dancers, photographed by Di Zhang

‘Summer Winds’ is a dance event, curated and produced by Rani Welch, founder and Art Director of The Rover Soho. Premiering at the same venue, ‘Summer Winds’ will run Saturday, September 25, and Sunday, September 26, 7pm, at 41 Wooster Street, Floor 2, New York. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at the door (cash only) or for reservations visit 128430

“Summer Winds” begins outside on the cobblestones of old Wooster with site specific work by Jessica Taylor accompanied by live Bass from Dane Markle-Klapp. From there the show trickles inside and out onto The Rover rooftop for ‘The World of Else’ with choreography and video installation created by Diane Tomasi.    At the main stage, are Kelley Donovan and Dancers with ‘Age of Unraveling’, Jessica Taylor with ‘Momentum’, and Aaron McGloin with a brand new solo ‘Sink or Swim’.

Outside out-of-the-box. Rooftop ordinary to fantastical. Lush, dynamic and polished indoors. A breath of fresh air and four on-the-verge choreographers. At the end of a long hot season, we bring to you….‘Summer Winds’.

October 1-2, 7-9pm

The Rover Presents “Born In The Purple”

A Video Art Show Curated by Max Langhurst

Friday and Saturday from 7-9pm

Video works by:  Miya Ando, Max Langhurst, Christopher Pappas, Lissa Rivera, Shelter Serra, Yuliya

Lanina, Max Abeles, Zeljka Blaksic, Genevieve White, and Adrian Jevicki

On Friday, October 1, Genevieve White will present her performance based Art following the video presentation, and on Saturday, October 2, will be Adrian Jevicki.

The Rover is pleased to present Born in the Purple, a two night transformative exhibition of video works

curated by Max Langhurst and inspired by the experimental theatre movement of the late 1960s and

1970s. Common floor plans and large square rooms became vehicles of adaptation within the scene

quickly establishing itself as the venue of choice for low cost and highly experimental art forms.

The video collective representing the show features live elements accompanied by, installation,

experimental sound, and nonconventional sequencing.  Each of the works in Born in the Purple are

rendered as points of dissemination.  There will be an intermission reminiscent of Roman classical theatre.

Even though the show employs a nonlinear structure it subsequently becomes family by way of the

universal “moving image”.  For the final segment, the exhibition takes a cue from minimal performance based

artists, and clues us into the tensional exhaustion in the desire for total human deliverance.

To find out more about Genevieve White and her work please visit

www.genwhite.blogspot.com

videos

To see more of Adrian Jevicki’s stylings, go to

movementpantsdance.blogspot.com

October 8-9, 8pm

Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder

Performance. Movement. Music. Video.

Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder premiere their newest evening-length performance depicting various human constructive or destructive behavioral interactions between a male character and a woman character, enacted by themselves.  They use a variety of non-verbal means to depict basic dramatic constructs: movement, live video and live music. Their work is inherently technological, but ultimately the technology is used to illustrate and serve personal, human motivations in the performance. To reserve tickets to this event please go to Brown Paper Tickets Link 132533

Click here to view the trailer for the performance:

http://juliefotheringham.blip.tv/file/4093655/

The artists’ sites:

http://www.jarrydlowder.com/

http://www.juliefotheringham.org

October 10-11, at 8pm

UNSEEN DANCE: “MOVE OVER ROVER”

Dana Salisbury and The NO-SEE-UMS…

Unseen Dances For Blindfolded Audiences

Performances: Sunday, October 10 and Monday, October 11 at 8pm

Touch Workshop: Sunday, October 10 from 3-5 pm

The audience is blindfolded. Say, what? How does that work? You are guided into the space and action. Dancers reveal themselves and the environment through sound, scent, touch, temperature and air currents. Where are you? Where is everyone else? Where are the dancers and what are they doing? Deeply situated in the present moment, Unseen Dances evoke un-socialized instincts that jostle with context, memory, metaphor and imagery. Under-used sensory resources are called up. Touch, hearing, smell and balance bypass language. Defenses are undermined by dislocation. Vulnerability creates permeability and makes for work that is close-to-the-bone andpersonal.  To reserve tickets to the performances of Unseen Dances, please visit Brown Paper Tickets at 130265

Sunday, October 10 from 3-5 pm

TOUCH WORKSHOP

Touch and the subtlety of communication through haptic experience (touch accompanied by motion) are central to our lives and well-being. Person-to-person touch is never neutral and its interpretation is multi-layered, mysterious and individual. With greater attention to the quality and content of touch, we become more sensate, permeable and open to experience. Communication becomes deeper, more immediate and rewarding. Participants may be offered role in evening performances. www.danasalisbury.com To purchase your tickets in advance for the workshop, please visit Brown Paper Tickets at 130620

Dana Salisbury’s investigations span dance, video, language, site-specific performance/installation and visual art. Her interest in non-visual perception led her to create in 2005, Dark Dining Projects, sensory feasts served to blindfolded guests. These participatory performances take place in restaurants and a wide variety of cultural settings(www.darkdiningprojects.com). Running parallel to Dark Dining Projects, is her work as a choreographer. Her present company, Dana Salisbury and the No-See-Ums, launched in 2009, creates Unseen Dances, dances for blindfolded audiences. The group has presented work in New York City at the Figment Festival on Governor’s Island, Performance Mix Festival at Joyce Soho, Movement Research at Judson Church, Green Space, The Tank, and X Initiative Gallery. In MA, the group performed at “Art on the Brain: Exploring the Intersections of the Arts, Neuroscience & Society,” a conference sponsored by the Foundation for Psychocultural Research, Hampshire College Program in Culture, Brain & Development, held at Mt.Holyoke College.