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WESTFEST 2021
ON-SITE & ONLINE
Dance Festival

WESTFEST 2021 PROGRAM A

WESTFEST 2021 PROGRAM B

Videos and Artist Bios are available at westfestdance.com

WestFest is a cutting edge, curated dance festival presenting established and emerging movement artists. This year’s online festival includes two different one-hour programs hosted via a zoom link found at www.westfestdance.com. Following our site-specific format, each choreographer will present their work in a site they have chosen. Join us as we tour the world, from Arizona to Switzerland, in the comfort and safety of your own home.

More information at www.westfestdance.com

Join us May 1st and 2nd for this year’s live-streamed productions with the wonderful TruDee as our EMCEE.

Program A – Saturday, May 1st – 4PM EST
BOiNK! Dance & Film
Martha Graham II
Zachary Frazee
Rachael Lieblein-Jurbala
Madison wada
Emily Laird

Program B – Sunday, May 2nd – 4PM EST
Carol Nolte/Dance Collective
Rush Johnston Kaleid Dance Collective
Dual Rivet
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Pauline Gervais
Mira Göksel
Catherine Gallant

Registration: FREE

Viewing Link: www.westfestdance.com
Time: 4PM EST
Running Time: 1 hour

CONTACT: production@westfestdance.com

WestFest 2021 is produced under the auspices of the Westbeth Artists’ Residents Council. westbeth.org

Check Out WestFest Dance Festival 2020

NANCY GOLDRING
THE CLUMSY ARK

LIVE ZOOM READING
The Clumsy Ark
Written and Read by Nancy Goldring
with projected visuals

May 12, 2021 at 6:30PM

Link Info:
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Meeting ID: 819 0378 4305
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+1 929 205 6099 US (New York) Meeting ID: 819 0378 4305

For Link email: westbethgallery@gmail.com

The little book began as an article for an Italian cultural magazine, Le Cose e Le Parole. I was asked to write about life under the pandemic here Westbeth, and in the city in general. Gradually it grew into a project about the diving boat parked along the river’s edge.

Artist Bio

Based in New York, artist and writer Nancy Goldring has been exhibiting her drawings with foto-projections for 50 years. She was one of the founding members of SITE, Inc. an experimental architectural group in the Seventies. Her previous books and catalogs include: Distillations published by the Southeast Museum of Photography, Palinsesto: The Photographs of Nancy Goldring (Mazzotta) for the city of Parma with essays by David Levi Strauss and Paolo Barbaro, Vanishing Points, Galleria Martini Ronchetti, Genoa, and the Casa dell’Architettura of Rome with an essay by Michael Taussig. Her work can be found in many public collections including: The Bibliotheque Nationale, Eastman House Museum, the International Center of Photography (NYC), the International Centre of Photography in Mumbai. the St. Louis Art Museum, the Smith College Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, the Herzlyia Museum, Polaroid Collection, WestLicht Schauplatz für Fotografie.

Gayle Kirschenbaum Photo Exhibit

SUNSHINE STATE & PORTRAITS

Live Virtual Walkthrough Photo Event
May 12, 2021 6PM – 7PM

LINK HERE: https://www.gaylekirschenbaum.com/photography

” An invigorating collection that seeped with visceral humanity, even if the majority did not actually feature people.”
-Riley McGraw Hart- Honeysuckle Magazine

As I found myself unexpectedly in Florida last July in the midst of the pandemic, I was pulled to the ocean to enjoy and capture the sunrises. Feeling lucky to be free to do so when so many others were locked down in their apartments with not much to enjoy outside in the cold weather.
As I explored my new surroundings of the sunshine state my eye saw beauty in many places. SUNSHINE STATE is my exhibit of these photos captured since summer.
PORTRAITS are images of humanity and my connection to each of my subjects.

Bio
Gayle Kirschenbaum is a creator who expresses herself in many forms. She began life as a visual artist and started taking photos where she loved spending hours in her darkroom. She found herself shooting stories with her photographs and painting them in an impressionist way. Her desire to use words and sound led her to moving images. She became an Emmy award-winning filmmaker whose films and programs have premiered on Netflix, HBO, and Discovery. They include Look At Us Now, Mother!, A Dog’s Life: A Dogamentary, My Nose and Little Parents. Her last film led to an invitation to give a TEDx talk called No More Drama With Mama about forgiveness. She speaks and teaches on this topic. Gayle has found herself returning to her first love, photography. Her photographs were exhibited in Spain at the Barcelona Foto Biennale in October 2018, she received an honorable mention under landscape for the Pollux Awards 2019, have been in Westbeth group shows and a solo show.

She has been featured widely in the media including New York Times, NBC Today Show, Jerusalem Post and Psychology Today. She is a member of Producers Guild of America (PGA) and a judge for the Emmys and PGA.

PAUL BINNERTS
new book
LABYRINTH OF LIES

A MOVING AND UNUSUAL WAR NOVEL ABOUT ORDINARY JEWISH PEOPLE AND
THEIR IMPOSSIBLE CHOICES

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The Hague, May 9th 1940. Bert Meijer van Leer becomes the proud owner of a German motorbike. Little does he know that the motorbike, a Zündapp, will save his life and cause his downfall. On May 10th the German army invades Holland. On that day Emmeke, Bert’s sister, celebrates her birthday. Emmeke and Bert are Jewish, but not practicing. Bert has been baptized and marries Lien who is Protestant. Emmeke is married to Joost, who isn’t Jewish either and anti-religious out of principle. Ingredients for a fatal chain of events.

Their ‘mixed marriages’ can’t protect them against the measures the Germans take against the Jews: excluding them from the society they live in through registration and public humiliation by forcing them to wear the Star of David; and, if they don’t comply, arrest, imprisonment, and deportation to a concentration camp.

In Labyrinth of Lies, Paul Binnerts witnesses how the Nazi’s slowly tighten the rope around the necks of his characters. They are constantly facing decisions, which only in retrospect turned out to be the wrong decisions. He deeply sympathizes with them but can only keep them company.

Published: 2021 by Prometheus, Amsterdam.
The title, Het Leugenlabyrint, translates into English as Labyrinth of Lies. An
English translation is in preparation.

PAUL BINNERTS

Dutch theater director, acting teacher, playwright and novelist.

Situated in New York and Amsterdam. His plays Black Box, The Same Sea (based on novels by Amos Oz) and Mephisto (based on the novel by Klaus Mann) won prestigious awards in Europe. The Same Sea was produced in Toni Morrison’s Atelier at Princeton University in 2004.

Published ACTING IN REAL TIME, Univ. of Michigan Press in 2012.

A VERY (c)OLD CASE, Part 1 and 2: first original play in English. Reading Part 1 @ Lark Theater, NYC, 2011.

LOST & FOUND: second original play in English, directed @ Westbeth by Nancy Gabor.

Directed over 75 productions in Holland, UK, Germany, US and Japan.

Taught ‘real time acting’ @ drama schools in Holland, Germany, the UK and the US, including Princeton and NYU.

Published his novel LABYRINTH OF LIES in Holland in 2021

www.paulbinnerts.nl
paulbinnerts@hotmail.com

Valerie Ghent & Natasha Ghent
The Angel

THE ANGEL

I am delighted to announce the upcoming release of The Angel, a classical cantata written by my mother, violist Natasha Gudkov Ghent, in a performance that she and I recorded together in 1988.

The Angel was a lifelong work for my mother, rooted in her trilingual childhood. Born in Paris to Russian parents, she created her own translation of the classic Mikhail Lermontov poem. Featuring my mother on violin and viola, I am singing soprano in Russian, and both she and I added additional parts on the synclavier.

I have wanted to release this piece for years. Today, 33 years after we recorded together, I am thrilled to release The Angel in tribute to my mother’s life and undaunted spirit. Listening to her play is timeless.

More information on The Angel and its history at ValGhent.com

The Angel available now on all platforms

Listen Here

RAVE REVIEW IN MUZIQUE MAGAZINE
https://muziquemagazine.com/music-premiere-valerie-natasha-ghent-captivate-on-the-angel/

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Also Check out Valerie Ghent’s new collaboration with Italian rap artist, the Bumo Sugo on his new album, OFF WRLD

More Info at ValGhent.com

DAVID GREENSPAN
One Night Stand

FOUR PERFORMANCES ONLY: (Currently Sold Out)

Check out for availability of tickets at: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35658/production/1046063

Saturday May 15th 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Sunday May 16th 1:30 p.m.
Sunday May 23rd 6:30 p.m.

I’m a cheap date: It’s FREE.

Conceived and sung by David Greenspan
Music Direction and piano by Jamie Lawrence
Downtown icon David Greenspan’s latest performance piece includes singing songs associated with iconic women singers – Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Betty Hutton (yeah, her.)

Performances will take place at 85 Broad St in lower Manhattan.

This performance is presented as part of Downtown Live, presented by En Garde Arts and The Tank in association with The Downtown Alliance.

Patrons are required to arrive at their performance site for check-in at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time or else they risk forfeiting their reservations. Patrons are welcome to check in as early as 30 minutes prior to the performance.

Seating will be general admission and capacity is limited. If you reserve a minimum of three performances through the three-show package option, you will have reserved seats. All Downtown Live patrons are expected to observe social distancing guidelines and wear a mask covering their mouth and nose at all times.

Joan Hall at National Arts Club

Collage and Assemblage: Past and Present
How Artists Recycle Everyday Items into Artwork.
Monday May 24, 2021 at 6PM – 7PM EST

Register for Zoom Event

About this Event

This talk covers art ranging from 12th century Japan to contemporary photo illustration, and how artists recycle everyday items into artwork. Presenter, Joan Hall, is a pioneer in the field of collage and assemblage illustration. Her work has appeared on many covers including Time magazine and The New York Times and been shown in galleries and museums worldwide including Le Centre Pompidou. Per Milton Glaser’s invitation, she created a Collage for Illustration class which she has taught at The School of Visual Arts.

Please help the NAC support artists. By making a donation with your registration, you contribute directly to the NAC Artist Fellows program, helping to further the careers of up-and-coming artists.
This program will be hosted via Zoom. You will receive additional details upon registration.
Photograph by Michael O’Neill.