Prelude Projects

Prelude Projects exists to encourage and facilitate collaborations between the visual and performing arts to further the conversations of these disciplines. 

UPCOMING PROJECT

PERFORMANCE SERIES / 2024

Swedish textile artist, Diana Orving, will build a 1500 sq. ft, textile installation, of undulating curvatures and absorbing plumes, in jute, silk organza, and wire mesh. Orving's textile installation sets the topographical intervention for a commissioned dance work with renowned New York choreographer, Jodi Melnick, for New York City Ballet principal dancer, Sara Mearns.

The project opens to the public on July 11, with a performance taking place opening night. There will also be performances held on July 18 and August 8.


PAST PROJECTS

RECEPTRE / IT STARTED WITH A SPARK / 2019

Receptre, a dance work and accompanying score, was performed in an installation by visual artists Grace Villamil (New York) and Maximilian Rödel (Berlin), to an original score by Villamil. Choreographed by Michelle Thompson Ulerich, Receptre was performed on three occasions.  

Excerpt: It Started with a Spark speaks of a moment unseen, like that which set off the cosmos. Rödel’s expansive and impalpable paintings – like colossal fragments of the stratosphere – are brought earthbound and held here, setting both tone and scene for a site-specific mylar installation by Villamil. Of a sensitive and singular vision, Villamil’s radiant terrain attenuates rational thought – obscuring the known and unknown – while inviting viewers to places far and transient.

FROM THE TEMPLE / 2018

From the Temple featured all female contributors: Paris-based artists Pinar Demirdag and Viola Renate in collaboration with emerging New York-based choreographers, Thea Bautista and Dorothea Garland. Known internationally for their indulgent visuals, Demirdag and Renate designed an installation in which two new dance works were viewed in-the-round. From the Temple seeks to accentuate the female artist’s distinct voice while signaling where these disciplines can jointly go.

Excerpt: In a Neo-Surrealist pattern that absorbs vertical and the horizontal, the dynamic and the static, Demirdag and Renate invite entry to an all-consuming space of aesthetic inquiry and play, with walls of glazed eyes, knowing grins and columns of pearls, set against a backdrop of oscillating palms. The installation is an enclosed space that the viewer must decide to enter, leaving the rational everyday for the transformative unconscious of the artist.