Nora
Garda and Mark McCusker of Habeas Corpus are performing at the II International
Dance Festival in Tenerife, Spain, October 2006!!!!!
And
even when Spain provides some financial support, more money needs to be raised
to support travel
expenses.
Tango & Tapas
Chait
Galleries Downtown, Friday
July 14th, 2006
7
to 9 PM
$25
admission
(payable to Habeas
Corpus, tax deductible)
Wine and
TAPAS
Music by Alan Swanson
Dance by Habeas
Corpus
“Art Shoe” silent
auction
a benefit for
Ana y Nora
Mil Lunas Después
(Ana and Nora One Thousand Moons
Later)
a Habeas
Corpus (USA)-Ballet
Contemporáneo (Spain)collaboration performed at the
Tenerife Dance
Festival,
Spain, October
2006
Ana y Nora Mil Lunas Después
-an international partnership in dance, music and visual
arts conceived, directed and choreographed by Ana M. Narvaja, Nora Garda and
Mark McCusker.
Garda and McCusker of Habeas Corpus, will be
* traveling to
Spain in
September 06,
* partnering with Ballet Contemporáneo
to create Ana y Nora Mil Lunas .
Después,
* performing at Tenerife International
Dance Festival,
* premiering Greg Brown’s Iowa Waltz
duet, and
* returning with new art works to
present to Iowa
audiences.
Habeas Corpus is an Iowa-based art collective whose mission is to affirm
and advocate the body in and as art
The
project
Ana
y Nora Mil Lunas Después
(Ana
and Nora One Thousand Moons Later)
Ana y Nora Mil Lunas
Después (Ana and Nora One Thousand Moons Later) is an international
partnership between professionals in dance, music, and visual arts.
Dancers/choreographers Mark McCusker
(Iowa), Nora Garda
(Argentina), and
Ana Maria Narvaja
(Spain) began
with a discussion of the formal design principles of solos, duets, trios, and
quartets. This led to the discovery of their theme Mil Lunas
Después.
Ana Maria and Nora describe it as a
consideration of life, time, and experience. Their friendship began over
twenty-five years ago when they studied and danced together in their native
Santa Fe,
Argentina between 1980 and
1986. Life took them in different directions but they never stopped sharing
artistic dreams. They came together again in the summer of 2005 and decided the
time had come to collaborate. Ana y Nora Mil Lunas Después will tell
stories in this vein. Ana y Nora will be the threads connecting the
work.
Nora and Mark will travel to
Spain in September 2006 and collaborate with
Ballet Contemporáneo de Santa Fe en Tenerife creating choreography with music from
Iowa and Spain. They will make tapes to edit into
videodances, appear at Tenerife International Dance Festival performing Greg
Brown’s Iowa Waltz duet, and return with art works to present to Iowa audiences
in November and December.
The
Artists
Ana Maria Narvaja created
Tenerife’s First Modern Dance Company and First Tango
Company. Narvaja heads the Dance Dept. at Casa de la Cultura and is the
founder/organizer of the International Dance Festival in
Tenerife. She has acquired some financial support to
bring Nora Garda and Mark McCusker, to the Festival in September
2006.
Nora Garda and Mark McCusker of the
Iowa-based art collective HABEAS
CORPUS have created art work together since 1998, and separately since
childhood. They rehearse, create, perform, exhibit, and teach non-stop
throughout the year.
They have developed
accessible art programs in under-served communities throughout
Iowa using education, hands-on
workshops and locally involved exhibitions. They have created art experiences
while cultivating significant community involvement and interaction. A few
examples:
At the The Iowa
Children’s Museum: Para los Niños, a bilingual creative movement,
weekly; 5
de Mayo celebration; Tea Party fundraiser;
At The School
for the Performing Arts: Videography, choreography, and movement
education;
At IC Schools and Scattergood in West Branch: Disco Interventions/Operation Stealth
Ballroom
during Physical
Education classes and After school
Dancelabs;
At
Iowa
City’s
Senior Center: Video, dance, and performance
productions;
At
Hancher Auditorium HC dancelabs
run the preshows to Mamma Mia!;
At the Englert Theatre HC dancelabs
perfom during “The Spot is on
Kids”;
For Pride Week HC performs Disco Intervention. every year and
rehearses Diversity Ballroom for
Connections;
With musician Alan Swanson, HC is creating
original music for DVDs, installation and
performance;
In
Des Moines at
Beaver
Creek Elementary
School, HC performed Tango Variations and The Iowa Waltz for
Cultural Day and is invited back for Disco Interventions and
Dancelabs;
At The Amana Renaissance Festival, HC Early
Dance Project performs, instructs, and guides audience
participation;
Several times a year HC
provides movement programs at the Iowa
City Public Library;
Every year HC
participates of Cultural Advocacy Day in
Des Moines;
In
Perry,
IA, HC performs Tango
Variations and the Iowa Waltz
as the kickoff of 5 de Mayo celebrations and installs Tango Triptychs, a video
environment;
In
Santa Fe,
Argentina, HC will
co-produce installations and performances with Taller Integral de Arte;
At Uptown
Bill’s Community Center, HC
will lead Movement for Special
Populations.
AND MUCH, MUCH
MORE!!!!!!
Tango
Variations and The Iowa Waltz
(a MoJo
production)
Saturday,
April 30th, 7:00PM and
10:00PM
Sunday,
May 1st, 2:00PM
Arts a la
Carte (20 East
Market St, Iowa
City –The Old
Brick Annex)
\$8.00 in advance, $10.00 at the
door.\Kids under 12
free;
students and seniors:
$5.00
For tickets call Carol at (319)
337-3989
Mo Jo
The movement Joy division
of
Habeas Corpus
TVIW is a 2 character self-reflexive dance-drama about an Argentine woman
and an Iowa man attempting to peacefully coexist while collaborating on the production of a
video documentary about an Argentine woman and an Iowa man attempting to peacefully coexist
while collaborating on the production of a video documentary about ......
A multimedia performance by Nora Garda, Mark McCusker et al
Live music by Alan Swanson
TVIW will be taken to Schools,
Senior Centers, Community Centers, and more in the state of
Iowa, mostly to regions with no easy access to arts
programs. The goal of TVIW is to create dialogue and
collaborative community building with seniors, teens, Latinos, women and men to
tell a story of song, dance, and people migrating around the planet.
In
July 2004, Nora spent 2 weeks in Argentina videotaping and interviewing street tango dancers, “milonga”
dancers, and tango teachers. At TAIARTE
(Taller Integral de Arte) professional dancers improvised tango, modern,
jazz, and ballet to The Iowa Waltz composed by Greg Brown, Iowa native.
In Iowa City, Nora and Mark have worked with local musicians,
composers, and dancers. Musicians, Ben
Schmidt, Tom Nothnagle and Alan Swanson played tango variations on Greg Brown’s
Iowa
Waltz. North Americans learning their first tango steps in
Iowa City were interviewed and videotaped. Argentines living in
Iowa shared their tango stories.
TVIW is being created to reach individuals that lack
access to arts programs due to economic conditions by being constructed as an
easily portable touring production.
Mark
McCusker (319)354-1006
Nora Garda (319)354-1526
HABEAS CORPUS, an Iowa-based non profit art collective, is funded in part by the NEA, the American
Film Institute, Film In The Cities, the Jerome Foundation, the Iowa Arts
Council, and the Reggie Amos Intermedia Development Award.
Mark and Nora, MO. JO. Co-Directors
Mondays: 9:00 - 10:30 pm
Not an open rehearsal
Interested? Call Mark at 319-354-1006 or Nora 319-354-1526
HABEAS
CORPUS, an Iowa-based non profit art
collective, is funded in part by the
NEA, the American Film Institute, Film In The Cities, the Jerome Foundation, the
Iowa Arts Council, and the Reggie Amos Intermedia Development
Award.
For more information: Contact Mark at (319) 354-1006
