Wally Cardona – WCV, Inc.’s
2010 Swing Space Resident, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center At Governors Island
Wally Cardona (Artistic Director, WCV, Inc.) is a dance-maker based in Brooklyn, NY.
Current projects include Really Real (BAM and International Festival of Arts and Ideas); Revival (Group Motion and Hidden City, Philadelphia); A Light Conversation (collaboration with Swiss-British choreographer Rahel Vonmoos); and teaching Performance/Phenomenon: Theory and Philosophy into Physical Practice at The New School and composition at The Juilliard School.
Brought up in California and New Mexico, Cardona was a competitive gymnast and clarinetist before beginning to dance at age 19. In 1986, he moved to NYC to study dance at The Juilliard School (B.F.A.) and the following summer attended the Ballet Project at Jacob’s Pillow, where he met Ralph Lemon and subsequently danced with his company until 1995.
In 1992, Cardona’s first work premiered at the Festival International de Danse in Cannes, France; his next work, Made In Voyage (1995), was performed in seven countries; and in 1997, Wally Cardona Quartet (WC4) was founded and WCV, Inc. was formed. Cardona is the recipient of a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and a 2006 Bessie Award for the creation of Everywhere (which marked his debut at BAM’s Next Wave in 2005).
Cardona will develop sections of Really Real — a new work created for movers and singers, with original music by Phil Kline and lighting by Roderick Murray — to be performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s 2009 Next Wave Festival.
