Natasa Trifan Performance Group

Scheherezade 2009/1001 New York Nights/

A contemporary ballet 

(in production) 

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Credits

Choreography: Natasa Trifan

Dancers:

Scheherezade: Anna Liceica

Young Rich Man: Dan Popa

Best Friend: TBA

The Executioner: TBA

The Chorus: TBA

Costume: Natasa Trifan

Set Design: Natasa Trifan

Music: Rimiski Korsakov

Video: Erol Israfil

Concept: The main frame story concerns a young American rich man and his new bride. The young rich man, upon the discovering his wife's infidelity had her executed and declared a law against all women should be killed. He began to marry a succession of young women only to execute each one on them on the morning after the ceremony. Eventually, his best friend  could not find any more women to surrender at his revendage. Scheherazade, his best friend's daughter, offers herself as the next bride and her father reluctantly agrees. On the night of their marriage, Scheherazade began to tell the young rich man a tale, but never finishes the tale. The young rich man is propelled to postpone her execution in order to hear the conclusion of the story. As the next night arises she was summoned to finish the tale for the young rich man. Scheherzade mischievely begins a new tale to keep the curious young man's attention. The second non-conclusive story postponed her execution once again and the pattern of her story telling goes on for 1,001 nights.
 
Visuals: We will use video projections to create her stories. The first image projected symbolizes her wishes of getting away from New York City. The video develops piece by piece like a puzzle game. Once she completes the entire puzzle image the young man is impressed by her narrative skill for story telling that he forgets to fall asleep and continues to asks Scherezade to tell another story every night.  
The video design represents her capacity to mentally travel and inspire him to love her.

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

  photos by Mary Durante Wehrhanh

 Capturing Gil-Gulim II

50 min

Credits

Concept/Choreography: Natasa Trifan

Performer: Natasa Trifan

Video Designer: Martin Burga

Music: Petre Radu Scafaru, Erol Israfil and Italian songs

Set Designer: Edward Morris

Costume: Oana Botez-Ban

Produced by Natasa Trifan Performance Group 

Presented by SLAG Gallery

Photography Mary Wehrhahn

Co produced with the Romanian Cultural Institute

Capturing Gil-Gulim I-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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