Natasa Trifan Performance Group

Dry - 45 min

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Credits

Choreography: Natasa Trifan 

Dancers: Andrei Garzon, Anja Eppermier, Saar Harari, Natasa Trifan

Music: Original score by Sylvia Mincewicz

Costume: Oana Botez-Ban

Video: Chiacki Watanabe, Giles Hendrix

Concept: “Dry” suggests an elaborate metaphor for the human condition, adapting and transcending extreme internal and external limitations. The piece explores continuous biological and sociological adaptations of the human being to a specific environment or context.
Related Concepts
Visuals: Visually, I have two major influences: Kandinsky's abstract paintings and De Chirico for the importance of shadow in visual composition. Both of them are reflected in set design, costume design and video projection.
Multimedia: The video projection marks the idea of parallel universes that coexist and interfere rarely at
the physical level. The video design represents the macrocosms (a structure at a large scale) and it
mirrors the actions of the white elastic and the choreography which are microcosms ( structures at a small scale.)

Funds and Grants. This piece was made possible with a space grant from the 92nd St. Y, the F.A.R.
space grant, and an art residency at White Oak from The Field. Support from Merce Cunningham Foundation and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts and private support from the Mary Duke Biddle. Additional private funds have been generously provided by Tracy & Stanley Shopkorn, Melissa & Casey Gard and Nancy Abraham.

Technical  information: Our production requires a video projector, a screen projector. We can provide the video projector and the screen.

Self Departure/Self Descend 40 min

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"Self Departure/Self Descend" premiere at the
National Dance Center Bucharest/Romania
June 7-11,  7 Pm.
Choreography: Natasa Trifan
Concept: Natasa Trifan
Dancers: Sandra Mavhima, Natasa Trifan
Costume: Oana Botez-Ban
Video: Martin James
Set design: Catalin Nastasoiu
Produced by Natasa Trifan Performance Group and Romanian National Dance Center with a grant from Trust of Mutual Understanding NYC. Private funding from Tracy & Stanley Shopkorn, Melissa & Casey Gard and Nancy Abraham.

text:SAVIANA STANESCU
research:KARA DEAN
choreography: NATASA TRIFAN
costumes & set design/photography:OANA BOTEZ-BAN
assistant costumes/graphics:ERIKA WEI
lighting design:LUCRECIA BRICENO
music:LUCIAN BAN
video:DAN BORA & DIANA ODASSO
performance: BARBARA BARESE, TIFFANY BARBARASH, JUUN HWA EA, MINDY MYERS, ANNIE RICCI, HANNAH SPONGBERG, NATASA TRIFAN, IVANNA WEI

Capturing Gil-Gulim -45 min

Credits: Concept Natasa Trifan

Choreography: Natasa Trifan

Dancer: Natasa Trifan

Costume: Oana Botez-Ban

Music: Erol Israfil, Petre Radu Scafaru, Italian songs

Funds: USAInternational Grant from Mid Atlantic Foundation, Queens Council for the Arts,  Natasa Trifan Performance Group. Private funding from Tracy & Stanley Shopkorn, Melissa & Casey Gard, Susan Mackenzie and Nancy Abraham.

Zero - 1 hour

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