Ironworks on the Edge

Open Audition, Tuesday, September 20th, 7-9pm

Artistic Director/Choreographer:  Amy Yopp Sullivan

"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." Proverbs 27:17

Ironworks on the Edge is a professional media/performance company based at Stony Brook University through the research and creative work of Artistic Director Amy Yopp Sullivan. The company is dedicated to exploring movement and physical performance in collaboration with film, media, technology, health, music, theatre and visual art. University students have opportunities to work with the company as interns, research assistants, understudies, stage managers and numerous other roles in supporting and developing creative and imaginative performance.

The mission of IronWorks on the Edge is to create an interdisciplinary incubator for education, research and performance. The goal is to uncover new territories that can shape human interaction, physical intelligence and body narratives, as they spring from the fields of movement and dance, collaborate with numerous partners and contribute to the needs of humanity in the 21st century. IronWorks values the "leader as educator" (Selznick), "expertise and empathy" (Pagonis) and "mobility in crisis" (Collingwood and Kirby) with an unflinching commitment to vision and mission.

   Seabourne (2009-present)photos by Vivian Jung and Dali Jung

Sea Bourne is an on-going work in progress. The focus of the project is to depict the beauty and greatness of the sea, the power of ordinary and extraordinary people, and our human endeavor to affect change as we live our lives of unfolding purpose. The film was shot on location at the beautiful beaches surrounding Suffolk County, Long Island, and introduces us to the lives of Long Islanders who live and work on the water, offering their perspectives as baymen, commercial fisherman, ecologists, scientists, educators and boat builders. 

Sea Bourne expresses aliveness and community connections, and voices concerns for the future and the need for action in order to build a sustainable environment. The film seeks to reveal the precious gift of the sea and offers a catalyst forpromoting more understanding about our relationships to the sea. The film project is being produced and directed by Amy Yopp Sullivan, with preliminary film and editing (2008-2009) by Vivian Piccone Jung. The musical score is composed by Max Duykers. The work to date features dancer Lisa Malone, and vocalist Luz Alina Rivas. 

Sea Bourne is part of "From Sea to Shining Sea: A Public Movement Project," directed by Amy Yopp Sullivan through the Center for Dance, Movement and Somatic Learning at Stony Brook University. IronWorks on the Edge is a professional performance and media company. The work in progress was presented at Avram Theatre at SUNY Southampton, New York in March of 2009. One of IronWorks' mission is to explore the place and narrative of the moving body in documentaries. 

The first stages of the film were made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts (2009). In Suffolk County the Decentralization Program is administered by the Huntington Arts Council, Inc. in partnership with the Suffolk Consortium of Arts Councils. Sea Bourne is created in loving memory of Jacob Klaassen (1923-2008) and is dedicated to Nelson Slager and Kathleen O'Sullivan. The Long Island Seaport and Eco Center in Port Jefferson, graciously acted as the sponsoring organization for the project during 2008-2009. 

        Sensorium (at the opening of Erasing Borders, Wang Center, Stony Brook University)      

       April 26, 2011  6:30pm                   Photos by Hui Liu

Erasing Borders 2011 is a richly provocative exhibition of work by artists of the Indian diaspora who confront issues of sexuality, terror, disease, the environment, racial and sectarian politics and the fluidity of identities in painting, prints, installations, video, and sculpture. With great technical mastery and diversity of theme and style, these works combine traditional Indian aesthetics with Western elements, and speak to the powerful experience of personal and cultural dislocation in the global village.

Sensorium

Throughout our lives, as we are exposed to difference, we cross boundaries of a cultural, intellectual, aesthetic or spiritual nature. But what is the actual “experience” of crossing over? What is revealed when we experience something new? Join us in witnessing the moment when the “other” enters a gallery and encounters art for the first time. Observe first-hand the delight of curiosity, surprise and physical response that results from being changed by that which is new and different.

Concept and Direction: Amy Yopp Sullivan 

Choreography and Performance: Lisa Malone, James No, Hendryx Silva, Nicolle Troyano

Music:
“Red Tree, Yellow Sky” by Bill Ryan
“Same” by Dani Sicilano
"The Resistance" by Muse
UKF Dubstep Mix - August