Restless Creature: A project of the Wendy Whelan New Works Initiative
Subtitle: Works & Process at the Guggenheim
By: performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson
Contributors: Baff, Ella, moderator; Whelan, Wendy, dancer; Shen, Wei, 1968- choreographer; Abraham, Kyle, 1977- choreographer; Abraham, Kyle, 1977- speaker; Beamish, Joshua, choreographer; Beamish, Joshua, dancer; Beamish, Joshua, speaker; Brooks, Brian, 1974- choreographer; Brooks, Brian, 1974- dancer; Brooks, Brian, 1974- speaker; Cerrudo, Alejandro, choreographer; Cerrudo, Alejandro, speaker; Grant, Cameron, 1951- performer; Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987; Xenakis, Iannis, 1922-2001; Kržišnik, Borut, composer; Glass, Philip; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Series: Works & process at the Guggenheim collection; Works and process at the Guggenheim
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Artistic collaboration
Other titles: Works & Process, Wendy Whelan; Whendy Whelan: Restless Creature
Description: Panel discussion 1: Wendy Whelan discusses the creation of Shen Wei's Body Study III, adjusting to the music; working in the studio with Shen Wei, this work being his first on pointe, how Whelan began the Restless Creature project, working with four choreographers and how they met, working with Jerome Robbins compared to working with these four young choreographers, and setting up the next piece by Joshua Beamish.  Panel discussion 2: The four choreographers and Wendy Whelan discuss the creation process for each of their dances and working with Whelan, Whelan talks about the trust and chemistry needed for a pas de deux and the inner narrative used in a male/female duet, how important women were in Balanchine's works compared to this project, and setting up the next piece by Brian Brooks.
Notes: Widescreen.

Title and credits taken from house program and DVD label.

"Restless Creature is the inaugural work of the Wendy Whelan New Works Initiative, and has been made possible by a creative residency space grant provided by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation." -- Works & Process program notes.

"Restless Creature will have its World Premiere at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, August 14-18, 2013 and its New York City Premiere at the Joyce Theater, April 2-6, 2014." -- Works & Process program notes.

Art direction, David Michalek ; lighting designer, Joe Levasseur ; costumes, Karen Young ; production manager, Davidson Scandrett ; producer, Ilter Ibrahimof ; producer, David Persky.

Panel: Wendy Whelan (dancer), Kyle Abraham (choreographer/dancer), Joshua Beamish (choreographer/dancer), Brian Brooks (choreographer/dancer), Alejandro Cerrudo (choreographer/dancer) ; Ella Baff (executive and artistic director of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival).

Videotaped in performance at the Peter B. Lewis Theater, as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York on 2013 April 14 (3 pm).

DVD.

Gift; Mary Sharp Cronson.

Body Study III premiered in 2005 by Peter Boal & Company.
Table of contents: title: Introduction (2 min.) / by Caroline Cronson.; title: Body Study III (6 min.) / choreography, Shen Wei ; music, Morton Feldman (Intermission 6b), Iannis Xenakis (À R (Hommage À Ravel)) ; pianist, Cameron Grant ; dancer, Wendy Whelan.; title: Panel discussion 1 (20 min.) / panel: Wendy Whelan (dancer) ; Ella Baff (moderator).; title: Fragments from a New Work (excerpt from Restless Creature) (10 min.) / choreography, Joshua Beamish ; music, Borut Krzisnik (Love Song No. 2, Camillo's Waltz, and Memory Prism) ; dancers, Wendy Whelan and Joshua Beamish.; title: Panel discussion 2 (27 min.) / panel: Wendy Whelan, Kyle Abraham, Joshua Beamish, Brian Brooks, Alejandro Cerrudo ; Ella Baff (moderator).; title: First Fall (excerpt from Restless Creature) (12 min.) / choreography, Brian Brooks ; music, Philip Glass (String Quartet No. 3) ; dancers, Wendy Whelan and Brian Brooks.