Residency #139
JUNE 28 - JULY 18
(Application Deadline: March 20, 2010)

WALLY CARDONA, choreographer

Brought up in California and New Mexico, Wally Cardona was a competitive gymnast and clarinetist before beginning to dance at age 19. Since then, as a dancer, choreographer and teacher, his work has embraced paradox, complexity, exactitude and experiences direct and intimate as well as indirect and conceptual. After moving to New York City in 1986 to study dance at The Juilliard School (B.F.A. ‘89), he performed with the Ralph Lemon Company for eight years. In 1992, his first work was presented at the Festival International de Danse de Cannes and in 1997, Wally Cardona Quartet and WCV, Inc., an artistic umbrella organization for his work, was formed. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for the creation of Everywhere (commission: BAM’s 2005 Next Wave and PICA’s TBA Festival), his current projects include Really Real (commission: BAM and International Festival of Arts & Ideas); A Light Conversation (collaboration: Swiss-born London-based choreographer Rahel Vonmoos); new works for The Kitchen (NYC) and EDge Company (London); and teaching composition at The Juilliard School and Performance/Phenomenon: Theory and Philosophy into Physical Practice atThe New School. Cardona resides in Brooklyn, NY.

* For more information on Wally Cardona, please visit http://www.wcvismorphing.org/

Residency Statement

This residency is devised to be an active laboratory for dance makers/choreographers. All Associate Artists should come with a project that they are currently working on or with a project in mind. While we will work a little bit together - considering performance and composition from alternate viewpoints, including performer, creator, viewer, and thinker – the potential of time in solitude will be an important part of what this residency offers. When together, everything will be processed through physical practice, observation, evaluation and oral feedback, with each person’s body being their primary experiment. The point is not to complete a work, or even “move it forward” but rather, to move to question how we construct and how we think of what we construct.

Applicants

All applicants should submit a brief biography; a resume; and 1-2 work samples (DVD format preferred but VHS tape accepted, minimum of three minutes total time) of recent work(s) created or performed by the applicant; a one-paragraph statement putting the work sample in an artistic context (include full credits, location and date of work sample) and a separate paragraph stating why you would like to participate in the residency and your current concerns of investigation.