Windows in the Kitchen...photos and news to share

Photos by Paula Court, Copyright 2012.

WOW, what a week! We have some beautiful photos to share with you of Douglas Dunn and Jon Gibson (flute) performing with Matt Turney (on film) in Elaine's Windows in the Kitchen at the American Dance Guild Annual Performance Festival where Elaine was honored for her life's work. We presented Windows September 6th and 7th 2012, at the Alvin Ailey Theatre, NYC. On the Friday night, we also invited our friends on stage for Invitation to Secret Dancers. More photos coming soon!
New York Times review by Brian Seibert, Published: September 7, 2012.
Dance Magazine blog post by Wendy Perron.

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We've been busy celebrating the 50th anniversary of the First Concert of Dance at Judson Church in 1962.
COMING UP, we have a film screening, "Judson Reconstructed" on Sun, October 7th at 3pm at Anthology Film Archives, presented by Movement Research, Danspsace Project and Anthology for PLATFORM 2012: Judson Now.

Elaine had a wonderful conversation with the lovely Lana Wilson, for Danspace's PLATFORM 2012: Judson Now, September 7, 2012.

If you haven't seen it yet, we posted a video of our reconstruction of Ouverture, presented as part of Movement Research's celebration of the anniversary. July 6, 2012, at the Judson Church.
OUVERTURE (SPLIT SCREEN & BY CHANCE DANCE & FILM) was originally performed in 1962 with 16mm and 8mm film & 1 dancer, realized for Judson Dance Theater's First Concert. The audience was requested to walk through the movie screen before seating.

Thank you to all our friends who have attended and been a very important part of these events.

Here's to merry dancing,

Elaine

Interview, Lincoln Center, and Windows in the Kitchen

Dear Friends

We wanted to tell you Elaine's interview with Samara Davis is online
on Artforum.
http://www.artforum.com/words/#entry32034

Also we started a Tumblr site with photos from Elaine's archive, we
post new photos often as we organize
them on their way to Lincoln Center Jerome Robbins Dance Collection.
http://merrydancing.tumblr.com/

Please take a look at them!

Elaine will be presenting Windows in the Kitchen for American Dance
Guild on September 6 & 7.
Please come and say hello!
http://americandanceguild.org/?page_id=276

thank you so much for your support and friendship.

merry dancing!

Elaine

Register for the Kintetic Awareness Intensive

Dear Friends,

It is time to Register for:

Kinetic Awareness Intensive, July 23-27, 2012 (Monday - Friday) Times: 1 to 6 pm Location: Movement Research at Eden's Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th floor. New York, NY 10012.
Prices: $600 for all five days

15 student / teacher limit per class

For more information and to register, click HERE  or call: (212)925-0142

or email: elainesummersdance@gmail.com

Please also enjoy following our news of the Ouverture Performance at Judson's 50th Anniversary.

We look forward to seeing you at the Workshops!

All the best,

Elaine & Team

Elaine Summers, Originator

Kinetic Awareness Center

537 Broadway, 4th Floor

New York

NY 10012

Phone: (212) 925-0142

http://www.kineticawarenesscenter.org/

Judson Memorial Church for the 50th Anniversary

DEAR FRIENDS, Sorry for the late notice, but tomorrow at 8pm at the Judson Memorial Church for the 50th Anniversary for Judson Dance Theater's First Performance, Elaine will be re-staging her first Intermedia piece from the Judson Dance Theater's First Concert "OUVERTURE".  Admission Free. Judson Memorial Church - 55 Washington Square South Hope to see you there! elaine Ouverture (reconstruction) by Elaine Summers Audience is requested to walk through the movie screen before seating. In the film: Deborah Hay, Freddy Herko, Richard Brodney, Kenward Elmslie, Carol Summers, Elaine Summers, Sally Gross, Ruth Emerson, Carla Blanc, Arthur Levin, Al Carmines, George McGrath, Steve Paxton, Remy Charlip, Lila Pais, Josh Pais, John Worden, Sally Stackhouse, Harold Johnson, Joseph Schlichter, James Waring, Arlene Rothlein, Edward Barton, Rev. Howard Moody, Carolee Schneemann, Clyde, Rosie & Michael Lax, Christine Myers, Sandra Neals, Phoebe Neville, Larry Seigal, Robert Rainieri, Al Hansen, Ira Matteson, Bill Meyers, Johanna Vanderbeek, Carolyn Chrisman, Robert Ranieri, Norma Marder, Lou Rogers, John Patton, John Hoppe, Kyle Summers, Malcolm Goldstein, John Herbert McDowell, the parade for the astronauts on their return from the moon. OUVERTURE (SPLIT SCREEN & BY CHANCE DANCE & FILM)  was originally performed in 1962 with fifteen minutes 16mm film & 1 dancer, realized for Judson Dance Theater’s First Concert. Don McDonagh and Robert Dunn chronicled the First Concert: "McD: There's an interesting description by John McDowell of the opening of the first concert:  'The very first dance that ever happened at Judson was really very extraordinary in a couple of ways.  First, the beginning of it, which was Bob Dunn's doing and was beautiful.  The dance concert was announced to start at 8:15 and they went upstairs into the sanctuary to find that in order to get to their seats they had to walk across a movie that was going on.  This movie consisted of some chance edited footage by Elaine Summers and test footage that I made… And we went on exactly, precisely for 15 minutes.  The first dance which was by Ruth Emerson started on the dot of 8:30.  As the movie was just about to go off, the six people or so involved came out, the movie sort of dissolved into the dance.' Dunn: Yes this was really incredible, the beginning of the first (Judson)concert.  It doesn't sound like much now but it was extraordinary, my hair stands on end to think how that worked.  Nobody ever did anything like that." from Don McDonagh, The Rise & Fall & Rise of Modern Dance

Please join Movement Research in celebrating the  50th Anniversary of Judson Dance Theater's First Performance  Friday, July 6, 2012  Judson Memorial Church 55 Washington Square South 8pm, Free Performances and presentations by Chris Peck, Carolee Schneemann, and Elaine Summers  reception to follow  Movement Research (212) 598-0551 info@movementresearch.org

Elaine's Neighborhood: The Garvey Studio Find!!!

Hello Friends,

We found a can of film labeled Tumble Dance - and couldn't help but run to the Color Lab
and have it digitized.  We just got it back and here it is.

http://youtu.be/AnV2YBM7gZk

Dancers in the film are Phoebe Neville, Eddy Bhartonn and Larry Seigel.
Inspiration for the way they look came from Fernand Leger!

thanks,

elaine


Left Photo: Alexandra Ogsbury & Larry Seigel
Right Photo: Michele Berne, Tedrian Chizik & Eddy Bhartonn

elaine

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YouTube - Videos from this email

The Biggest Peril to Ships?

Wonderment! 
.............So many treasures to be found at The Blue Stocking Publishing Book Store..............


There was once a problem that everyone knew needed to be solved ... it was a matter of life and death.  


Since beginning of time, we had a real problem when traveling by sea.  


And for centuries no one could solve it...


But, wait...I love this part... a carpenter comes along and solves the problem!


The book?    
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Here is a movie about it too: 
http://www.amazon.com/Longitude-Michael-Gambon/dp/B00004U2K1/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1337877955&sr=1-1


Let us know what you think after you watch the video (Click  the link, please).  

And enjoy this vintage article I've saved in my files for years...

Find Elaine at the Blue Stocking!

Tonight,  I am going to the BLUE STOCKING PUBLISHING BOOK STORE ... 


IT SEEMS THERE ARE 3 WOMEN WHO RAN FOR PRESIDENT MANY YEARS AGO!!!!  


... AND  THEY HAVE WRITTEN A BOOK.    ONE OF THE WOMEN IS SUSANNA DAKIN.   


Come to my neighborhood and look for me at the Blue Stocking some lovely evening.  I may be sitting in a cozy armchair interviewing Susanna.


As neighborhoods go, there are none better for me, than SoHo!

Elaine's Studio

Welcome to Elaine's  NEIGHBORHOOD! Live Love Learn Locally is a "How to" spot for understanding and appreciating neighborhoods. Living and Loving Locally begins right here in SoHo -New York City where I can dance my dream to the fullest, drum up daily delights, and match my special lifestyle needs. We're living and loving longer! Please share how you live and love in YOUR neighborhood. One day, YOU may be saying, "WELCOME!"

Elaine wants to help you share in her evening last night at the Danspace Project Gala at St. Marks Church ...just a short cab ride from SoHo.  She says, "Imagine last night, our friend June Ekman came to bring me to the wonderful Danspace Project Gala at St. Marks Church honoring Ralph Lemon & Joseph V. Melillo. Happily for me, part of the wonder of living such a long time (87 years) and being much older than everybody else, are all the wonderful friends that are working with you, and have worked with you, in the world of dance and film, and web.

June is a celebrated and splendid teacher of the Alexander Technique. In 1960 at Judson Church, June was being a part of all the experimentation with movement and ideas about the developing methods of understanding through a kind of experiential anatomy the dancers' need for becoming experts at understanding our instrument, the whole human body and its possibilities to dance.

Thank you, June. It was a wonderful gala. Sitting in the beautiful garden and talking to Beryl Korot, who we'll go to see on Saturday at Bitforms Gallery.

Look below where Elaine shares and Image: 
Two views of "To Steve with Love" by Elaine Summers

Top, left to right: Dorothea Rockburn, Rosemary Lax, Rudy Perez, June Ekman, Jorge Shaik, Henry Martin, William Meyer, Barbara Forst, and Henri Boyer. Bottom, left to right: Dorothea Rockburn, Rosemary Lax, Rudy Perez, June Ekman, Al Hansen (behind June Ekman), Jorge Shaik, Henry Martin, William Meyer, Barbara Forst, and Henri Boyer. (Photos by Peter Moore)

Welcome to Elaine's  NEIGHBORHOOD! Live Love Learn Locally is a "How to" spot for understanding and appreciating neighborhoods. Living and Loving Locally begins right here in SoHo -New York City where I can dance my dream to the fullest, drum up daily delights, and match my special lifestyle needs. We're living and loving longer! Please share how you live and love in YOUR neighborhood. One day, YOU may be saying, "WELCOME!"

Long ago, Elaine found a great leather purse on Madison Avenue.  She recalls, "it was beautiful...made of leather...and the best thing about it was that nothing left the purse! There was a place for everything -credit cards, keys, cash and change...but over the decades, 'it got tired!'

... And as Elaine grew older she found she needed something lighter and smaller.  

So Elaine (87 years young) grabbed a taxi to 2nd Ave and 42 st where she found  the Bagalini ($44)!  She will send pictures to post here.  Not only does "nothing leave your pocketbook ... because the wallet is attached to the pocketbook... it has a strap around my shoulder so I don't leave it in the restaurant." 

Elaine explains, that the Bagalini "also has divisions for smaller amounts... a zipper goes all the way around and there's a place for keys and holders for pens, and a space for my hearing aid  (I wear one that looks like you're listening to music)."  

Elaine's getting ready for July 23-27, when The Kinetic Awareness Center offers workshops ... and guests from all over will join Elaine's neighborhood - arriving to teach, conference, share meals ... living and learning together from Elaine's neighborhood in SoHo.   For instance, Ann Law, who works to archive Elaine's long history as an Intermedia Artist, is also herself an artist, living and learning and loving in Tennessee  (TN).  This July, Ann Law will travel to SoHo to  give a workshop called, White Wind Dance -previously performed in TN.

 " Ann  works with  me  from TN .. I go to her neighborhood, and  she comes here. There's also Thomas who is making a book on improvisation."  Thomas will arrive this July in SoHo  from the Netherlands ... and he will co-teach in our neighborhood, here in SoHo.  Thomas and I  Skype from the Netherlands...THE INTERNET GIVES US ANOTHER CYBER NEIGHBORHOOD...MAKING IT ALMOST LOCAL! " 

And why the pocketbook story? 

Elaine explains that "The pocketbook story is important for older people who must learn to use what they have in their neighborhood.  She goes on to explain, " I live in SoHo and aught to be able to buy it in SoHo ... but not! So what am I doing in my neighborhood? I'm getting into a cab ...extending my neighborhood ....I can't do what I do in any other neighborhood.  Older people need to find out who offers services in your neighborhood."

Elaine reminds me that she can catch a cab (Medicare covers the cost) to the NYU Medical Center as easily as she visits McNally's Book Store, or the exotic Cafe Noir, or the formal dining and  gourmet L'Ecole Culinary School!   She is clearly stoked with her Bagalini find, "I  like the pocketbook because its about safety and having a tool I wont lose when I'm out shopping ... one thing we take out of the bag is the credit card and I could leave it at the store ... and what we look for in the bag is that it narrows down the potential for problems (like losing it, or items in it).  And it has a filing system, it was easy to find, and I only have to carry the things I really need."

So Heidi came to visit and we grabbed a cab to...

Welcome to Elaine's  NEIGHBORHOOD! Live Love Learn Locally is a "How to" spot for understanding and appreciating neighborhoods. Living and Loving Locally begins right here in SoHo -New York City where I can dance my dream to the fullest, drum up daily delights, and match my special lifestyle needs. We're living and loving longer! Please share how you live and love in YOUR neighborhood. One day, YOU may be saying, "WELCOME!"

 So Heidi came to visit and we grabbed a cab to...

CAFE NOIR (32 Grand St) in my little neighborhood! On the corner ... with a mysteriously curtained doorway... and the outdoor seats facing the cityscape on wonderfully warm days and nights. Charming and debonair Gregois, in authentic French accent, ushered us into a fascinating setting with amazingly creative and delicious tapas (and wine). Had we flowed through the curtain and into a classic movie world, reminiscent of Casa Blanca?
And how helpful Gregois was in helping me navigate the exotic entrance with my cane!!!

We so much wanted a perfect little "French" haven to celebrate our birthdays. And we found it in Cafe Noir. This year, for the first time in seven, we were celebrating our February birthdays belatedly. We thought new place for dinner would be most fitting this year ... a year of significant changes. The French are fond of reminding us that life is change ... and being dancers at heart, we practice flowing with life's changes.

But we protect and preserve those rhythms and rituals important to us.

Background human interest story:
Heidi had moved away eight months ago to live with the love of her life...up in the Mohawk Valley of New York. Tim's tradition was Becoming a Snowbird for February and March. So Heidi and Elaine advanced our birthday celebration to April!
In close relationships, we find significant ways of sharing in the happiness unfolding in each others' lives. This "Granny" has loved tracking Heidi's new life through phone calls, email, photos and videos ... sent all the way to NYC's SoHo.

Our Seven Year SoHo Birthday tradition began with a phone call from Heidi's California daughters requesting my fullest participation in a birthday surprise for their mother. Knowing Heidi and I shared a great love of "French," they were tickled to find L'Ecole -the famous Culinary Institute -right in my neighborhood . They sent me a check to cover our dinners. And I made our reservations, not even two blocks from my door! And that's how L'Ecole sustained our February birthday dinners in fabulous gourmet style for six years.

Forecast?
We'll be back to Cafe Noir much sooner than our birthday celebration...grab a cab at the corner and within eight blocks we enter an entirely different world that feeds our imaginations as well as it pleases our appetites!

And Alexandra (the dancer in the picture) will be coming to my neighborhood to visit and teach with me in July.

Elaine's LivingAndLovingLocally

ElaineSummersDance and her amazing Kinetic Awareness Center in New York City are inextricably linked to the vibrant world of Intermedia, Dance, and Healing through Ball Work -created across five decades by Elaine.   

Through her lifetime career as a dancer, choreographer, and pioneer-visionary in the world of healing and "Intermedia Art," Elaine's work and style has featured collaboration, interconnection, honoring the web of our lives.   Those who live and love locally (and globally) with Elaine know that even the sky is not the limit!  

It is no surprise then that early in the history of the "web", Elaine's Internet contribution to our living, learning and loving has been locally has provided global access to each other through www.Skytime.org!  (Click this link: http://www.skytime.org/)

LiveLearnLoveLocally offers Elaine's ever expanding community an additional -individual and personal - layer of connection among us all.  We can even invite our neighbors to visit, to participate, to benefit, and to contribute. 

LiveLearnLoveLocally brings together ourselves and our neighborhoods.  A neighborhood is a living, learning, and loving entity... it "breathes" through us and with us.  And it grows, it changes ... and it can disappear unless we learn to consciously participate in its vitality.  This site is your opportunity to preserve and protect "neighborhood" ... appreciate it for how it sustains our living, learning, and loving.

LiveLearnLoveLocally is a cyberplace we come to not only to enjoy.  More importantly, through coming we learn how to appreciate and sustain what is local (thus, strongly and easily within our sphere of influence for the good).  

LiveLearnLoveLocally is about the people and places in our neighborhoods -those who are permanent, and those who visit and grace our lives momentarily ... or from afar through the world wide web of living, learning, loving.