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Guest Artists 2002-2003
Neta Pulvermacher - Fall 2002
Dancer, choreographer, director, writer, Pulvermacher was born and raised
in Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan, and began to study dance with Ariel Peled in
Tel Hai, Israel. She came to New York in 1982 and graduated from Julliard
in 1985. She founded her New York based company, The Neta Dance Company, in
1987 and has since created over 50 works for her company’s repertory.
Through production of original dance works for the stage, screen and new media (Internet), Neta seeks to expand the relevance and experience of contemporary dance and theatre. By rethinking the traditional division of labor between visual artists, musicians, media-makers and performers, Pulvermacher strives to create a new cinematic language that merges movement, music, symbolism, images and spoken language, giving an expression to the human experience and condition. Pulvermacher is known for her collaborations with avant-garde musicians and composers such as Roy Nathanson and The Jazz Passengers, John Zorn and Masada, Anthony Coleman and Yuval Gabay.
Neta’s works have been commissioned by the American Dance Festival, The Yard, The Yellow Springs Institute, Dance Theatre Workshop, among others. Neta received choreographer fellowships from the NEA and NYFA, Meet the Composer, The Jerome Foundation, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Arts International and numerous others. She has also been honored with a Bessie award. She is on the faculty at Barnard College and Teachers College, and she teaches master classes and workshops throughout the U.S. and Israel. Her company performs throughout the U.S. and has toured internationally to Poland, Canada and Israel. In New York, her works have been presented at The Joyce Theatre, DTW, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Central Park Summer Stage, The Merkin Concert Hall and the Knitting Factory club, among others.
Mark Haim - Spring 2003
Born in New York City, Mark Haim directed Mark Haim & Dancers, which performed
at the Riverside Dance Festival in NYC, and at various theaters and venues
in the US, Luxembourg, and Holland. In 1987, he was invited to Lisbon, Portugal
to become Artistic Director of the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa. There, he
created 8 dances for the company, which toured Portugal, Spain, and Italy.
Haim has been commissioned to create new works for many dance companies in
the US, Europe and Asia, among them the Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet Frankfurt,
the Joffrey II Dancers, Limón Dance Company, the Rotterdamse Dansgroep,
the Silesian Dance Theater, the Companhia de Danca de Lisboa, CoDanceCo, the
TRANS Dance Co., Coogan Dancers, and Ballet Pacifica. He has restaged his
works on companies such as The Joffrey Ballet, the Bat-Dor Dance Company of
Israel, Djazzex and the Juilliard Dance Ensemble. He has also choreographed
for the Medicine Show Theater, RTP in Portugal, AC-TV, Inc. and was invited
to choreograph a production of Orfeo e Euridice for the Glyndebourne Opera
Festival in England. Haim’s current program, The Goldberg Variations,
received its world premiere at the American Dance Festival in July of 1997,
and has recently been presented by Central Park Summerstage, the Kennedy Center,
Toronto’s Harbourfront, Ohio University, OH’s Contemporary Dance
Theater, CA’s Carpenter Center, SC’s Columbia College, and Virginia
Commonwealth University. It has also been performed in various stages of development
at: The Festival of European Dance and Theatre in Prague, Hollins College,
Ohio University, Cornell University, University of Illinois, NC School of
the Arts, the 92nd Street Y, Dance Theater Workshop, the Manhattan School
of Music, and the University Settlement.
Haim served on the faculty of the American Dance Festival from 1993 to 2000.
He has been on the faculty of NYU-Tisch School of the Arts and was Guest Artist-in-Residence
at Hollins College. He has also taught at the North Carolina School of the
Arts, Ohio University, University of Illinois, the New World School of the
Arts, Cornell University, the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, Dance Space and
Peridance in New York City, and has been guest-teacher at schools and companies
in Belgium, Holland, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Chile and Japan. Haim
is a recipient of a 1987 NYFA Choreographers Fellowship, a 1988 and 1996 NEA
Choreographers Fellowship and grants from the NPN Suitcase Fund, ArtsLink,
Inc., the Harkness Foundation and the Jerome Foundation.