Faye Driscoll Dance Group
2010-2011 Swing Space Resident, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center At Governors Island
Faye Driscoll is a choreographer who strives to investigate new forms of theatrical experience aimed to provoke feeling, stimulate the senses and activate the mind.
Her latest work, There is so much mad in me was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival and Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) where it premiered to a sold-out audience in March 2010, and was been invited back by popular demand through DTW’s remount program. She was hailed as, "1 of 25 to watch out for in 2008," by Dance Magazine and her second evening-length work, 837 Venice Boulevard, was named, "one of the top 5 dance shows of the year" by the New York Times.
Driscoll recently received the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project Production Grant for her new work, Beautiful (working title). Beautiful is being commissioned by The Kitchen where it will premier in 2012. Driscoll has choreographed for Cynthia Hopkin’s The Truth: A Tragedy, Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Church, Taylor Mac’s Obie award winning The Lily’s Revenge, and NTUSA’s Chautauqua!. Her video work, Loneliness, was featured in Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum and she recently choreographed The Forrest, a music video for Mirah.
Driscoll has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Joyce SoHo, Kaatsabaan International Dance Center, University Settlement, HERE Arts Center, and BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She is an artist-in-residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center and a 2010-2011 Choreographic Fellow at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography.
Her creative process is a way to survive, communicate and connect. Whatever she is grappling with, whatever terrifies, shames, or confuses her, is usually the starting point for her work.
While in residence on Governors Island Driscoll will explore the ravishing poignancy of beauty, through the lens of decay, imperfection and loneliness.
