Collaborators

Collaborators

Nari Ward Tracie Morris Francisco LÛpez Liz Prince Stan Pressner

Nari Ward was born in Jamaica and came to the United States when he was 12 years old. After living in Brooklyn and New Jersey, he made his home in Harlem, where he continues to live and work. His large-scale installations use everyday objects – weaving culture, history and personal narrative to create and transform environment into language. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and was the Artist-in-Residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem. His work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, at Deitch Projects and the Harlem Firehouse Space in New York City, and at Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Comtemporain, Grenoble, France, among others.

Tracie Morris is an award-winning writer of poetry, songs and theater pieces. Some awards include: National Haiku Slam Championship, fellowship form Friends of the Davis Center and the Asian Cultural Council, co-recipient of Lila Wallace Arts Partnership grants and multi-year awardee of the ASCAP Special Award and Franklin Furnace’s Artist-in-Exile grants. Morris has participated in eight recording projects and has been published in dozens of magazines and books (including one of her own). She dedicates her contributions to the magnificent Philip Brown.

Francisco LÛpez is an audio-artist and composer of electroacoustic music. His belief in "the real world as the best sound generator" resulted in more than fifteen years of soundscape trips, and he has compiled an archive of recordings from over twenty countries on four continents. As a biologist (he is a Ph.D. Professor of Ecology at the University of Madrid), his fascination with insects and invertebrates has provided the inspiration for much of his early music. To date, he has released eighty audio works on forty record labels worldwide, both alone and in collaboration with other audio-artists. He has given live performances and constructed sound installations and audio-listenings all over the world, and has received commissions from several cultural institutions.

Liz Prince’s recent costume design work includes Meg Stuart’s Remote for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project and Mark Dendy’s Les Biches for the Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB). She is presently designing Dendy’s new ballet for PNB to be included in their 25^th Anniversary Season, as well as for his upcoming season in New York at the Joyce Theater. She has also worked extensively with Bill T. Jones and is currently working with his company on a new production. Prices’s costumes have been exhibited at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris. In 1990, she received a New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for costume design.

Stan Pressner has created the lighting for dance, theatre, opera and music events on five continents. His work can be found in the repertoires of, among others: The New York City Ballet, The Lyon Opera Ballet, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane & Co., Ralph Lemon Company, Bayerische Staadtsballet, Geneva Ballet, The Boston Ballet, Stephen Petronio Company and The Netherlands Dance Theatre. He also serves as the resident lighting designer for the Lincoln Center Festival. Pressner is the recipient of a 1988 New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for cumulative achievement and a 1988, 1991, & 1994 American Theatre Wing Design Award nomination. Pressner has come to prefer Stein.

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