With Debut, we’re creating a rich, reactive environment—a visual feast of film, dance, lighting, and art installations—scored by some of the most exciting musicians in the independent music scene. The Knockdown Center will be transformed in a way we didn’t explore with our last piece. With Debut, our narrative surfaces in bits and pieces, scraps of seven different perspectives on a single night, told through a convergence of experimental art that fills this incredibly unique space. You get to walk through the show, to explore and view the dancers from inches away— each one portraying the nostalgia, the apprehension, the complex surges of emotions associated with the rite of passage they are in the midst of. The show transforms the Knockdown Center and the participants in kind. They can expect dance, music, and film to merge and highlight each other in surprising and constantly evolving ways. They can expect a show unlike anything they’ve seen before. Some of the films we’ve released in the lead up to the show hint at the level of detail and experimentation that we’ve already explored in the lead up to our residency. More dispatches can be expected in the lead up to the shows. HB: How did you become associated with the Knockdown Center? Do you think that the Queens community will be receptive to your projects? Derrick Belcham: In March of 2014, I directed a video for Eddi Front in the Knockdown Center. When that piece was completed, I returned to discuss the possibility of filming in their unrenovated basement, and they pitched the idea of working on a music series with me. During the next few months, I would return to the space to film videos for various musicians and dancers. Each time I returned, we revisited the idea of the series, and I finally decided to pitch an idea. Part of our intention is to expose the existing audience for independent music to an evening of choreography, and the existing audience for contemporary dance to an evening of experimental music. We’ve expanded our integration into the Center and the community with a 2-week residency leading up and public days on the weekends so everyone can see what we’re up to. Derrick Belcham is a Canadian filmmaker based out of Brooklyn, NY whose internationally-recognized work in vérité music documentary has lead him to work with such artists as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Thurston Moore, Wilco and hundreds of others in music, dance, theater and architecture. He has created works in concert with such reputable institutions as MoMA PS1, MoCA, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Whitney Museum Of American Art, Musee D›Art Contemporain, The Philip Johnson Glass House, Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Vogue, Pitchfork, MTV, NPR and Rolling Stone as well as being screened at festival and retrospective in NYC, Toronto, Paris, Tokyo and beyond. He is a key member of the La Blogotheque filmmaking collective and was a co-recipient of a 2013 Graham Foundation grant for his work at the Philip Johnson Glass House. Emily Terndrup is a native of West Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated with a B.F.A. in Modern Dance from the University of Utah. As a performer and choreographer, her work has been presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well as venues throughout Utah, Iowa, and Colorado. She was the recipient of Dance Teacher Magazine’s 2010 Outstanding Student Performer Award, and has had the pleasure of working with artists such as Gregory Dolbashian, Edgar Zendejas, Susan McLain, David Dorfman, Gallim Dance and Shannon Gillen + Guests. Emily has directed several music videos and is currently creating new work for stage and film, as well as performing in Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More. October 7 - 9, 2014 Dors at 7:15 p.m. Performance at 7:45 p.m. The Knockdown Center 52-19 Flushing Ave, Maspeth, Queens OCTOBER 2014 | BOROMAG.COM | 33
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