Porter and Rabinowitz have worked for decades exploring the intersection of spoken word and dance. Porter writes and performs her own material, while Rabinowitz performs his texts while dancers embody the language in movement. Both incorporate original music.
Porter will be performing “Sexy Grammar” & “Falling for Prepositions”
Rabinowitz will be performing “Villa Dei Misteri” and “Little Gem Magnolia”
Time: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $20.00 in advance | $25.00 at the door
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About the pieces
Villa Dei Misteri and Little Gem Magnolia.
These two dance / poetry pieces blend the lines between spoken word and movement and draw connections between the dream world and the conscious one, the past and the present between shadow and light.
Villa Dei Misteri
Written by Paul Rabinowitz
Choreographed by Elaina Stewart
Performed by Elaina Stewart and Anna Hershinow
Music Written and Performed by Barry Spatz
Little Gem Magnolia
Written by Paul Rabinowitz
Choreographed and Performed by Oksana Horban
Music by Richard Sears
Sexy Grammar & Falling for Prepositions
Sexy Grammar (2022)
Written, choreographed, and performed by Claire Porter
Music by David Rose
Created with support from Jody and John Arnhold
An earnest librarian tries to arouse her audience to the love of grammar, performing burlesque to get their attention. It’s a strip.
Falling for Prepositions (2013/2022)
Written, choreographed, and performed by Claire Porter
Music by Mary Ellen Childs
Commissioned by the New Music USA Live Music for Dance Program with generous support from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Developed while in residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and created with support from Lisbeth Eltgroth, and Jody and John Arnhold.
On Preposition Awareness Day, a librarian replaces the scheduled singer to celebrate the songs composed by the one man who devoted his life to the preposition.
“Porter, mistress of the short, sharp character portrait, is that rare breed – nimble witty comedian. A soloist with a neat collection of personas, Porter sketches them with the perfect physical gesture … Porter is always delightful, often wickedly funny.”
— Sally Sommer, The Village Voice
About the Artists
Claire Porter
Choreographer Claire Porter, known for her comedic text and movement work and her skilled teaching, has received many commissions and honors including those from The Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for Arts, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Live Music for Dance Commissioning Project, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation. Porter has an MA in Dance from Ohio State, a BA in Mathematics, and is a Laban Movement Analyst. Porter teaches at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in the MFA program at Montclair State University, and is often a guest teacher and choreographer at universities, for both faculty and students. For upcoming shows: https://www.cportables.com/upcoming.
Paul Rabinowitz
Paul Rabinowitz is an author, poet, photographer and founder of ARTS By The People, a non-profit arts organization based in New Jersey. His work is often intertextual, and frequently thematically centered upon the process of artmaking through varied forms and pathways. His novel in progress, Confluence, integrates dance, photography and prose, and limns the boundary separating exterior and interior artistic motivation, between the murky, transient process of finding truth in art, and the flux and flow of interpersonal relationships. His work is concerned with the connection between the dream world and the conscious one, between shadow and light. Confluence stems from Rabinowitz’s 2020 novella The Clay Urn.
His photography, fiction and poetry appear in magazines and journals including The Sun Magazine, New World Writing, Waxwing Literary Journal, Courtship of Winds, Burningword, Evening Street Press, Grub Street Literary Journal, The Montreal Review, The Metaworker, Adirondack Review, Bangalore Review, The Writing Disorder, Invisible City, Grey Sparrow Journal, The Oddville Press and elsewhere. Rabinowitz was a featured artist in Nailed Magazine in 2020 and Mud Season Review in 2022. He was nominated for the Maria Mazziotti Gillan Literary Service Award, and he is the author of Limited Light, a book of prose and portrait photography, which stems from his Limited Light photo series, nominated for Best of the Net in 2021. His poems and fiction, Little Gem Magnolia, Villa Dei Misteri, Magnolia Moon, Speeding Ticket, The Lines In Between and Poems In Morning Light With Cat are the inspiration for short films. Villa Dei Misteri won Best Experimental Film and Music Composition at RevolutionME Film Festival, Little Gem Magnolia won Best Experimental Film at The Oregon Film Festivals and Magnolia Moon won Best Experimental Film at the Venice Short Film Festival and Paris Independent Film Festival. His forthcoming book of poetry truth, love and the lines in between will be published by Finishing Line Press, September, 2023.
Rabinowitz has produced mixed media performances and poetry films that have appeared on stages and in theaters in New York City, New Jersey, Tel Aviv and Paris. He is a written word performer and founder of The Platform, a monthly literary series in New Jersey, andPlatform Review, a journal of voices and visual art from around the world. Rabinowitz’s videos, photography and poems appeared in his first solo exhibit, Retrospective With Reading Glasses, at CCM Gallery in New Jersey.
Click here to read, Driven To Collaborate: Photography, Poetry, Fiction, Dance, Film, an interview with featured artist Paul Rabinowitz
Funding has been made possible in part by funds from Morris Arts through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.
