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LYNETTE KESSLER
DANCE ARTIST | CHOREOGRAPHY | PERFORMANCE | DANCE MEDIA

As a professional artist, Lynette Kessler is an accomplished dancer, choreographer and dance media maker. With over 25 choreographed works for stage and screen produced during 1980 – 2004. Lynette is known for innovative collaborations with Amy Knoles, Maggie Payne, Doug Thompson, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Michael Sterns, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir, and Jilann Spitzmiller Philomath Films.

Kessler has received numerous awards and funding including an artist residency at the prestigious Headlands Center for the Arts, and Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship. Other project support through the National Endowment for the Arts and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Anima (2001) Choreographed and performed 15-minute solo made for screen with computer graphics.
Composer Amy Knoles, editor Douglas Thompson. Premier The Getty Center, Los Angeles

Place With No Words (1998) Choreographed and performed 30-minute solo with projected video graphics. Composer Amy Knoles, video graphics Douglas Thompson, sculpture John Wallis. Premiere SOLO Festival, a six-week run at 2100 SQUARE FEET, Toured 1999–2003

Fertile Gestures (1998) Solo performance with musician Stephen Nachmanovitch. Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, California

Essence Of Blue (1997) Solo performance: The Blue Tone, Fall Into Silence, and Numinosity Museum of Art Downtown, Los Angeles

Blurring The Lines (1996) Solo dance and guided audience participation with percussionist Jim McGrath. St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church, Santa Monica, California

The Day Of Collage (1996) Performance collaboration with visual artists Iktae Rhee and Gronk. Funded in part by City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department and Korean American Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Spring Street Gallery, Los Angeles

Performance As Transformative Process (1996) Solo dance improvisation with musicians Akani Fletcher and David Zazloff. Continuum Studio, Santa Monica, California

Tsankawi (1995) Performance collaboration with composer Michael Stearns, percussionist David Wiles,
videographer Jonathon Lowe. St John’s College Contemporary Music Series, Santa Fe, New Mexico

My Heart (1994) Solo performance with spoken text. Continuum Studio, Santa Monica, CA.

She Said (1993) Directed site-specific landscape dance video, filmed on the Green River in southern Utah with duet and solo dancer. Composer Michael Stearns, editor Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir. Premier Mill Valley Film Festival, California

Rock Fall (1991) Headlands Series III. A duet choreographed and performed for video on a rocky ledge above the Pacific Ocean. Artist–In–Residence Program at the Marin Headlands Arts Center. Composer Miquel Fransconi, dancer Jean Sullivan, editor Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir. Screen premier PBS-KQED


Marsh (1990) Headlands Series II. Solo dance made for video in a green marshy area. Selected by The LAB in San Francisco as group show of American film and video makers presented in Russia.
The First Moscow International Festival of Contemporary Art, Russia.

Gerbode Valley Fall (1989) Headlands Series I. Choreographed for the camera outdoor site-specific group dance. New American Makers Opera Plaza Cinema, San Francisco.

Windsheer (1987) Choreographed and performed evening length group work for four with composer Gregory Ballard and visual artist Stephanie Hedburg. New Performance Gallery, San Francisco.

Technological Feets (1987) Danced in collaborative work with videographer Ed Tannenbaum and composer Maggi Payne. San Francisco’s New Langton Inter-Arts Program and National Endowment For The Arts funding. Performed at New Music America Festival/Philadelphia

Visions (1987) Choreographed and performed concert of solo and duets in collaboration with dancer Carl Rowe, composer Jim Cockey, and the Boise Philharmonic. Funded by Idaho Arts Council. Performed at University of Boise, Idaho

And Then She Began To Worry (1986) Choreographed solo dance for Carl Rowe, Idaho Dance Ensemble. Ernest Hemingway Theatre, Ketchum, Idaho

Lessness (1984) Choreographed, directed and performed site–specific outdoor dance video. Composer
Stuart Hinds with text by Samuel Beckett. Funded by Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship Award, Northwood University, Midland, Michigan. Choreography adapted to stage performance (1985) New Performance Gallery, San Francisco, California

Equilibrium (1983) Choreography for group work with composer Paul Hodgins and visual artist Susan Moran. Funded by Rackham Thesis Grant. University of Michigan

Pattern Studies (1983) Choreographed and performed solo dance in collaboration with composer Stacey Bowers interpretive score played by David Wiles on marimba and Stuart Hinds on piano based. Funded by Rackham Thesis Grant. University of Michigan

Changes And Rituals (1982) Choreographed and performed solo with The Current and Modern Consort. University of Michigan

Defined Abstractions (1982) Choreographed group dance based on the work of Georgia O’Keefe. Composer Betsy Russell, cello and flute. University of Michigan

Movement for Flute and Percussion (1981) Choreographed and performed three vignettes. Composer Paul Hodgins. University of Michigan

Ozark (1979) Choreographed group work for four and performed. Funding by Arts Council of Great Britain. Two season tour as member of Jumpers Dance Theatre, London, England


 

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