The Flea Theater
proudly presents
Dance Conversations @ The Flea
2008-2009

The FREE monthly dance performance series
featuring new works and lively talk, Tuesdays @ The Flea continues!

Dance Conversations 2008-09 applications now available:
choreographers click HERE to download.

The Flea Theater is delighted to announce the 2008-2009 Dance Conversations @ The Flea series, continuing the spirited debate about dance and dancers for the fifth consecutive season.

Inaugurated in September 2003, Dance Conversations @ The Flea is a free monthly performance series. This season, Nina Winthrop and Taimi Strehlow curate the series. Dance Conversations @ The Flea presents works-in-progress by dance artists experimenting with new ideas and new forms. Each event in the series features the works of 4 emerging and mid-career choreographers and each performance is followed by an open discussion between the artists and the audience, moderated by choreographer Nina Winthrop and other leaders in the field of dance.

Dance Conversations @ The Flea was created in response to a need for a lab-like space in which working artists can engage in a meaningful dialogue with the audience. It is dedicated to nurturing new works and to the free exchange of ideas, thoughts and opinions between artists and audience. Expect the works presented to be in various stages of development - raw, half-baked or fully developed.

Admission is free and all programs begin at 7pm.

BIOGRAPHIES

Nina Winthrop (Curator) was thrilled to choreograph Violet Fire, an opera presented at BAM's Next Wave Festival in October 2006. The opera, by composer Jon Gibson and librettist Miriam Seidel, and directed by Terry O'Reilly, received its world premiere at the National Theater of Belgrade in July 2006. Ms. Winthrop formed Nina Winthrop and Dancers in 1991. Her numerous works have been presented in venues throughout New York City and Los Angeles, and her dance films, Stir, Too Close for Conversation, et toi? and Seven Sins, have been screened internationally. The company premiered Minority during its New York season at The Flea Theater in May 2008. In addition to curating DCF for the past three seasons, Ms. Winthrop curated the dance film showcase Dance on Film/Film on Dance at Symphony Space in 2004. She was awarded a Bessie Schönberg Choreographers' Residency at The Yard in 2004, a Dancenow/NYC's Silo Artist Residency in 2005, and participated in the Schönberg Choreographers Lab at DTW in 2005. She is on the Board of Directors of New Dance Alliance and was on the selection panels for the 2007 Bessie Schönberg Choreographers' Residency at The Yard and the 2007 Wave Rising Series. She is currently choreographing Linsey Bostwick’s piece, I Am Here. A graduate of Bennington College, Ms. Winthrop danced with Wendy Perron, Susan Rethorst, Yoshiko Chuma, Sally Silvers and Kei Takei, with whom she toured the USA and Japan, and studied with Erick Hawkins, Merce Cunningham and Deborah Hay.


Taimi Strehlow (Curator) is the managing director of Nina Winthrop and Dancers. Before entering the dance world, she was a television producer with A&E, The History Channel and PBS. Her film, Big Known Names, received a best documentary prize at the 2007 Red Bank International Film Festival and aired recently on PlumTV stations throughout the US.

The Flea Theater was founded in 1996 by three of New York's most acclaimed downtown theater artists-- director Jim Simpson, designer Kyle Chepulis, and playwright Mac Wellman. Its mission is to raise the standards of Off-Off Broadway for artists and audiences alike, providing a welcoming and well-appointed environment for the creation and presentation of provocative new theater, music, and dance fare. From A.R. Gurney to Adam Rapp, The Flea's two intimate spaces provide a home for established artists taking new risks, emerging artists developing their ideas, and mid-career artists building sustained identities. The Flea has been awarded a Drama Desk, an Otto, and numerous OBIEs for its commitment to adventurous theater, and its Dance Conversations and Music with a View series are quickly gaining ground as must-see showcases for the early-stage work of choreographers and composers.

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