|
|
|
||||||||
|
ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES: Resume
|
||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||
|
ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES is the coordinator for the Lambent Fellowship in the Arts of TIDES Foundation. This fellowship program awards unrestricted multi-year grants to visual and performing artists in New York City by nomination only. Contact: lambentfellowships@tides.org
|
||||||||||||
|
SOME MAJOR WORKS
* In 2001 Ishmael Houston-Jones' "No Where, Now Here" was commissioned by Mordine and Company in Chicago.
* In 1998 "Specimens" was commissioned for Headlong Dance Theater in Philadelphia.
* In 1997 he was the choreographer for Nayland Blake's "Hare Follies" as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Artists in Action Series.
* In 1990 he and writer Dennis Cooper presented "The Undead" at the Los Angeles Festival of the Arts.
* In 1989 he collaborated with filmmaker Julie Dash on the video "Relatives," which was aired nationally on the PBS series Alive From Off-Center.
* In 1984 Houston-Jones and Fred Holland shared a New York Dance and Performance "Bessie Award" for their "Cowboys, Dreams and Ladders."
TOURING
ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES' improvised dance and text work has been performed in New York City at Performance Space 122; The Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church; The Brooklyn Academy of Music; The Kitchen; Dixon Place; The Knitting Factory; and Dance Theater Workshop.
Across the United States his work has been presented in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, Memphis, Atlanta, Houston, San Antonio, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Boston, Anchorage, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon.
Internationally his work has toured in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Latin America.
|
||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||
|
Unsafe/Unsuited Keith Hennessy, Patrick Scully, Houston-Jones
photo: Dona Ann McAdams
COLLABORATIONS
In addition to those listed above, major collaborators have been:
* dancers Steven Craig, Stanya Kahn, Keith Hennessy and Patrick Scully;
* designers Huck Snyder and John DeFazio;
* photographer Robert Flynt;
* videographer Cathy Weis; and
* composers Chris Cochrane, Dave Pavkovik, Fast Forward, Tom Recchion, Leslie Ross and Guy Yarden.
* He has appeared in the work of John Bernd, Ping Chong, DANCENOISE, Terry Fox, Yvonne Meier, and in the films "Brother from Another Planet" by John Sayles and "Circle's Short Circuit" by Caspar Stracke.
PUBLICATIONS
Houston-Jones' essays, fiction, interviews, and performance texts have been anthologized in the books:
* Aroused, A Collection of Erotic Writing (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001)
* Best Gay Erotica 2000 (Cleis Press, 2000)
* Best American Gay Fiction, volume 2 (Little Brown, 1997);
*Caught in the Act: A Look at Contemporary Multi-Media Performance (Aperture, 1996);
* Conversations on Art and Performance (Johns Hopkins, 1999);
* Footnotes: Six Choreographers Inscribe the Page (G+B Arts, 1998); and
* Out of Character: Rants, Raves and Monologues from Today’s Top Performance Artists (Bantam, 1996).
* Out of Character: Rants, Raves and Monologues from Today’s Top Performance Artists (Bantam, 1996).
* He is a subject of the chapter Speech as Act in the book Dances that Describe Themselves by Susan Leigh Foster (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).
His work has also been published in the magazines: Movement Research Journal; Contact Quarterly; Real Time; Mirage; FARM; I See Gays and Porn Free.
RELATED ACTIVITIES
TEACHING
ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES has been a guest teacher at the European Dance Development Center and the School for New Dance Development in Holland; La Escuela de Danza Nacional in Nicaragua; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the American Dance Festival at Duke University; New York University; Wesleyan University and at numerous Performing Arts Festivals worldwide.
CURATING
Houston-Jones is the curator of the DraftWork Series of works-in-progress at the Danspace Project at Saint Mark's Church in New York. He has curated the Parallels Series of New Black Dance and The Dive In Series of Improvisation, both at Danspace. He has been a guest curator for the reading series Mad Alex Presents. Along with choreographer Yvonne Meier he curated the Festival of New Swiss Dance for the festival New Europe '99.
|
||||||||||||
 |
||||||||||||
| page created with Easy Designer |