Pedro Alejandro

Tesla Place, Site-specific, multi-media performance installation for seven dancers, and interactive video.  Video: Marcela Oteiza, Music: Live, Adam Timkle/Rod O’Connor. Wesleyan University, Center for The Arts,  Premiere, May  2009; New Haven Festival of Art & Ideas, June 2009.

Strike Match, Performed by six blind-musicians, co-sponsored by the Dominican Blind Association. Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. 2008.

No Eggshells/Outside.  Site-specific, multi-media performance installation for five dancers, and interactive video.  Video: Pedro Alejandro/Marcela Oteiza, Music: Live, Adam Timkle/Rod O’Connor. Wesleyan University, Center for The Arts,  May 5,6  2008.

Ex-Agora. Octet. Music: Miroslav Pudlak, Center for the Arts theater, Wesleyan Univ. May 2007.

Hortus Conclusus. Duet. Music: Peter Digennaro, 5th Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Ho, Hawaii. January 2007.

Pet Show.  Quintet. Music:  French accordion café compilation. Open Flight Studio Residency Artist, Seattle, Wa. August, 2005.

Karaoke Convertible Project, evening-length concert.  Karaoke Covertible. Duet ( 16 minutes) and Technicolor Rubberduckie. Sextet (51 minutes). Music:  Pink Martini, Omara Portuondo, Toby Dammitt, Tujiko Noriko, Spring Faculty Dance Concert, April 2002, Wesleyan University, performed at Center for the Arts Theater.  (67 minutes).

Karaoke Convertible, Duet.  Music:   Pink Martini & Omara Portuondo, ’92 Theater Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT. October 2000 and at AFEST / Nippon Kon Theater, a/k/a Northwest Asian-American Theater, Seattle, WA., May 2001.  Performing excerpts at:

Mulberry Street Theater, NYC and Jacob’s Pillow, Lee, MA, August 2001.  (16 minutes)

Framing Brother, Music:  Virgin Suicide Soundtrack by Air, ’92 Theater Wesleyan University, October 2000 and at Falling Bodies Concert, Northamtpon, MA, January 2001.  (12 minutes)

Good Winds(Buenos Aires).  Music:  Molly Sturges. ‘92 Theater Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.  November, 1999.  (15 minutes)

Fluffy Clouds After Gaze.  Music:  Jamie Leddo and Matt Earp. Ladylike Performance Festival, Chicago IL.  February, 1999 (20 min).

The Seagulls.  Large ensemble choreography for the Chekhov play, directed by Tim Raphael.  Center for the Arts Theater. Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.  November, 1998.

( 10 minutes)

Untitled Romance.  Music:  Soundtrack from Blade.  ’92 Theater Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.  November, 1998.

Gaze. Solo.  Music: Jim Penndorf. Moveable Beast Dance Festival. Chicago IL.  July 1998.  Performed: Chernin Center for the Arts.  (8 mins)

Danza Macabra. Sextet. Prologue dance for Marisol, a play by José Rivera, directed by Tim Raphael. ‘92 Theater, Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.  March 1998.  (4 mins)

Mambo Jumbo. Sextet. Music: Various selections.  Animation: Alejandro Santandrea.

Performed:

Excerpts peformed at Moveable Beast Dance Festival. Chicago Ill. Museum of Contemporary Arts, and Hothouse Cabaret,  June 1998.

Pedro Alejandro Dance/ Mambo Jumbo Project. Center for the Arts Theater. Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.   Jan. 1998.

Pedro Alejandro/Summer Sketchbook. Richard Bull Performance Loft, New York NY.  July 1997.

Inside/ Outside Series. Jacob’s Pillow. Lee MA.  Aug. 1997   (25 mins)

to find, to follow. Sextet. Music: Live and Original by Jim Penndorf, Erick Ronick, and Guillermo Brown. Video:  shot live in performance by Pedro Alejandro.

Performed:  Pedro Alejandro Dance/ Mambo Jumbo Project. Center for the Arts Theater. Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.  Jan. 1998.  (13 mins)

Partners & Crime.  Quartet.  Music:  Selections from “The Crime Scene”.  Performed: Pedro Alejandro Dance/ Mambo Jumbo Project. Center for the Arts Theater. Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.   Jan. 1998.

Pedro Alejandro/Summer Sketchbook, Richard Bull Performance Loft. New York NY.  July 1997.

Second Annual Cleveland Experimental Dance Festival. Cleveland, OH.  July 1997.

Saturday Night Fervors. Richard Bull Performance Loft.  New York NY.  May 1997.

(11 mins).

Mambo Pulp.  Quintet.  Music:  Patsy Cline, Tex/Mex Conjuntos and Dickie Harrell.

Performed: Pedro Alejandro Dance/ Mambo Jumbo Project. Center for the Arts Theater. Wesleyan University.  Middletown CT.   Jan. 1998.

Inside/ Outside Series. Jacob’s Pillow. Lee MA.  Aug. 1997.

Pedro Alejandro/Summer Sketchbook. Richard Bull Performance Loft. New York NY.  July 1997.

Second Annual Cleveland Experimental Dance Festival. Cleveland OH.  July 1997.

Roadside Dance Concert.  Charter Oak Cultural Center.  Hartford CT.  May 1997.

Performance Mix ‘97. University Settlement. New York NY.  March 1997. (12 mins)

Rerun/Return.  Octet.  Music:  Lounge Lizards.  Wesleyan Faculty Concert. ‘92 Theater. Wesleyan University. Middletown CT.  Oct. 1996.  (10mins.)

Gotham Gaze Event. Quartet.  Music:  Vivaldi.

Performed: En Masse, Unmasked. Merce Cunningham Studio. New York NY. Jan. 1996. (12 mins)

Outplaced.  Duet.  Music:  Steve Reich, Walter Gruener Kapelle, West End Klezmorim. Performed: En Masse, Unmasked. Merce Cunningham Studio. New York NY.  Jan. 1996.  (11mins)

Juan, More Time   Quartet.  Music:  Juan Esquivel.

Performed: En Masse, Unmasked. Merce Cunningham Studio. New York NY. Jan. 1996.  ( 15 mins)

In-Sense Septet.  Music:   Dan Siegler.

Performed: En Masse, Unmasked. Merce Cunningham Studio. New York NY. Jan. 1996. (13 mins)

Telling Rhythm,  Solo.  Music:  various pop tunes.

Performed: newsteps Mulberry St. Theater. New York NY.  March 1995.  (8 mins)

Apparitions.   Trio.  Music:  original composition by Douglas Johnson, video:  Pedro Alejandro.

Performed: Spring Dance Concert. Austin Arts Center. Hartford CT.  May, 1995.

In Good Company Concert.  Educational Center for the Arts. New Haven CT.  May 1995. (20 mins)

Frontier.  Septet.  Music:  John Adams.

Performed: Austin Arts Center. Hartford CT.  May 1995. (20 mins)

Nun Better.  Septet.  Revised danced, originally titled Get Down Old & New (Nesthead Chronicles, part II).  Music: Original composition by Chris Cherry.  Video:  by Pedro Alejandro.  Costumes:  Kate Discepolo.

Performed: Urban Artworks II. Pace Downtown Theater.  New York NY.   August 1994.

Reconstructed specifically to be Labanotated by Veronica Dittman, June-Sept. 1994.

Score archived with Dance Notation Bureau. New York NY.   (12  1/2 mins)

Evening Chant.  Trio, Music:  William Doerrfeld.  Costumes:  Kate Discepolo.

Performed: Spring Dance Concert.  Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.  April 1994.

(8 mins)

Emissaries.  Quintet.  Music:  Igor Stravinsky.  Costume Design:  Karen Schneider.  Performed:  Spring Dance Concert,  Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.  April 1994.

(10 mins)

Life & Casualty in Stevens-town (Plus, ‘Making the Phrase’).  Duet and solo dance conceived as individual dances, and performed simultaneously.  Music:  Live and original by David Byrne for the Belanescu Quartet.

Performed: Pedro Alejandro, New Choreographic Works.   Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.  Sept. 1993.  (5 mins)

Lola’s Lament.  Five dancers and twelve community performers.  Music:  Astor Piazzola and original soundtrack by Jim Pendorff.  Set Design:  Liz Bermel & Jacqueline Caples.   Performed: Pedro Alejandro, New Choreographic Works.   Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.  Sept. 1993.  (17 mins)

Double Bassed.  Duet.  Music:  Live and original by Derek Mercer-Wilkins.

Perfomed: Dance Services Network Spring Festival. Hartford CT.  May 1993;

Spring Dance Concert.  Austin Arts Center.   Hartford.  April 1993;

Pedro Alejandro, New Choreographic Works.   Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.  Sept. 1993.  (11 mins)

Borders & Crossings.  Nine dancers.  Music:  Live and original by Chris Cherry.  Video: by Pedro Alejandro.

Performed: Pedro Alejandro Works.  Austin Arts Center. Hartford CT.   Oct. 1992.

(12 mins)

Get Down, Old & New. Septet. Includes Videodance Music:  Live and original by Chris Cherry. (15 mins).  Veronica Dittman created a fully Labanotated scored, on file with Dance Notation Bureau. NYC.

Performed: Pedro Alejandro, New Choreographic Works.  Austin Arts Center.  Hartford CT.   Nov. 1993.

Pedro Alejandro Works.  Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.  Oct. 1992.  (12 1/2 mins)

Nesthead Chronicles, part I.  Solo.  Music:   Origianal composition by Chris Cherry.

Performed: Dance Services Network Tenth Anniversary Showcase, DeccaDance.  Christ Church Cathedral.  Hartford CT.  Oct. 1992. (8 mins).

VIDEOGRAPHY- Excerpt

Enclosed Garden,  video montage for ‘Hortus Conclusus’ in collaboration with Marcela Oteiza, 5th International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.  2007.

Karaoke Convertible Project, multi-media film montage of video excerpts created live and intertwined with digital excerpts of “Bathing Beauty (Esther Williams), and “Weekend in Havana”, “Dollface”, “Copacabana” (Carmen Miranda). Center for the Arts Theater, Wesleyan University, April 2002.

Rhythm & Muse. Videodance created live and incorporated in “to find, to

follow,” Recorded live as part of the stage performance, not as a separate videodance.

Video: Pedro Alejandro.   Music: Jim Penndorf, Erick Ronick, Guillermo Brown.

Shown: Mambo Jumbo Project. Center for the Arts. Wesleyan University.  Jan. 1998.

Dis-Placed.  Filmdance incorporated in Outplaced.  Shot in collaboration with “Chinatown Senior Citizens Center.”  New York NY.   Nov. 1995.

Desperation & Apparitions. Videodance incorporated in Apparitions.  Music: Douglas Johnson. Shown:

First International Videodance Festival. Buenos Aires Argentina.  Aug.1995.

In Good Company Concert.  Educational Center for the Arts. New Haven CT.  May 1995.

Spring Dance Concert.  Austin Arts Center. Hartford CT.   May 1995.

The Bite.  Videodance incorporated in Nun Better/Get Down, Old & New.   Music:  Chris Cherry.  Shown:

Pedro Alejandro/ New Choreographic Works.  Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.    Dec. 1992 and Sept. 1993

Dance and Technology Conference.  Simon Fraser University. Vancouver Canada.  July 1993.

Peopled Places.  Videodance incorporated in Borders & Crossings.  Music:  Chris Cherry.  Video: by Pedro Alejandro.  Shown:  Pedro Alejandro/ New Choreographic Works. Austin Arts Center.   Hartford CT.  Dec. 1992.

LECTURES/ PANELS /PRESENTATIONS

“Kinesthetic Wealth, Dance and the Political Economy of Softness,” Arts & Society

Conference/ Documenta 12.  Conference Paper. Kassel, Germany, August 2007.

“ The Enclosed Garden of Dance Modernism: Isadora Duncan and the Eco-Feminist Social Project of Early Modern Dance.” Conference Paper. 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii. January 2007.

“Hot, Hot Ballroom and Dominican Performactivity” Paper Presentation/ performance. Seabury 47 Series, Trinity College, Hartford, Ct, April 2006.

“Release Technique as Ethnochoreographic Practice: Mapping the Body and Culture.”  CD-Rom ethnography of dancer, teacher, and choreographer Felice Wolfzhan.  Multi-media research including interviews, text, video, and citations.  Paper presentation for:  “New Trends in Dance Teaching Conference.”  Lisbon, Portugal.  Oct. 1998.

McMillan Professorship, Lectures in Art & Technology.  Panel presentations:

“State of the Arts & Technology,” and “Making Art in the Twenty First Century.”

Eastern New Mexico University. Portales NM.  1995.

“Choreography for the Camera and the Stage, Integrating the Visual and the Kinesthetic.” Dance and Technology Conference.  Paper presentation:  Simon Frazier University.  Vancouver Canada.  July 1993.

RESIDENCIES/ COMMISSIONS/ AWARDS/ HONORS

Commisions/Residencies

*Open Flight Deck Residency, Seattle, WA, Community Choreographic residency.  Summer 2005.

* Centrum Arts, Seattle, WA, Choreographic/Community Teaching Residency, Korean Senior Citizens. December, 2002.

*Jacob’s Pillow.   In/Outside Series.  Presented early stages of Mambo Jumbo Project.  Lee Mass.  August 1997.

*Gotham Group Dance Co of NYC.   Commission of “Juan, More Time.”   In performance at: Merce Cunningham Theater. New York, NY       May 1998.   Education Center for the Arts. Philadelphia, PA   June 1997.  Merce Cunningham Theater. New York, NY        May 1997.

*McMillan Professorship in Arts and Technology Conference.  Dance Fellow.  Eastern New Mexico University.  Portales NM.  March, 1996.

Week-long residency to choreograph a work on faculty; present a shared evening program with other fellows in music composition and visual arts: and lecture in classes and speak on various panels on video as an artistic/choreographic medium.  Performed:  Juan, More Time, Apparition (solo version), and Outplaced.

Community Residencies and Other Endeavors (excerpts)

“Sound of Light,” (Luz Del Sonido) Dominican Blind Association. Ongoing Community arts project in Collaboration with Dominican Blind Musicians. Professor Edis Sanchez, ethonomusicologist, National Conservatory of Music, Dominican Republic. 2008-present. (Sponsored by a Mellon Foundation research grant.)

Dominican Museum of Man, Universidad Autonoma/Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 2005-’08.

Children’s Dance Workshops, and Strawbale Construction workshop to farming parents, Poetess/Ambassador/Children, Women and Aged. Luisa ‘chiqui’ Vicioso/ Cancilleria Nacional, sponsor. Risoli, Dominican Rep. June 2006.

Dance Composition Workshop, EDANCO ’06 (Encuentro de Danza Contemporanea), National Conservatory of Dance, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. May,  2006.

Choreographic workshop, Conservatorio Nacional de Danza/ Contemporary Dance Division, Dir. Mundo Poy, Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep.  March, 2006.

Children’s Dance workshop, ‘Mundo Feliz’ school , sponsored by the Vermont Institute on the Caribbean. Maricha Kazeniac, Dir. Puerto Plata, Dom. Rep. January, 2006. ‘

Organizational consultant for performance festival and the preservation of the ‘Chocolatera,’ co-sponsor by Fundacion Atlantica and Vermont Institute on the Caribbean.  Puerto Plata, Dom. Rep. January 2006.

Taught ‘Movement and Immunity,’ workshop to participating staff.   Latinos Contra El SIDA (Latinos Against AIDS), Hartford, Ct,  1992-93.

Counselor/Movement Therapist Volunteer, ‘Camp Dreamcatcher,’ the first camp for children affected and infected by HIV.  Taj Brown, Dir. August,  2003.