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Dzieci will host a discussion on Dzieci, Grotowski, and Art as Vehicle Following the Sunday, April 19th 2:30 matinee performance of with Hovey Burgess, Jane Hughes Gignoux, and Jeana Musacchio Hovey Burgess is widely considered to be the Father of the New Circus Movement. He has been a driving force of circus performance, education, dramaturgy, and history for over four decades. He was head of his own improvisational circus troupe, Circo dell’Arte with Larry Pisoni, co-founder of the Pickle Family Circus; Judy Finelli, co-founder of San Francisco’s Circus Center; Cecil MacKinnon, theatrical director of Circus Flora; and Ron Van Lieu, head of acting at Yale University, all present as founding members. His dedication to circus education includes partnerships with theatre conservatories such as NYU, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, and The Juilliard School. In 1980 he was circus choreographer for, and appeared in, Robert Altman's Popeye. Hovey received the Red Skelton Award "Gifted Mentor to Clown Theatre Artists" in 1991 and this year, the "Lifetime Achievement" Golden Nose Award. His book Circus Techniques has been in print since 1976. Jane Hughes Gignoux is a storyteller and the author of Some Folk Say: Stories of Life, Death, and Beyond, (FoulkeTale Publishing, New York, 1998). Some of her published articles can be found at the Life, Death, and Beyond website. Her work centers on helping people change their "story," through workshops and courses sponsored by colleges, universities, hospices, hospitals, community groups, Federal prisons, and re-entry programs. Her other major commitments include the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), where she is a co-founder of the Member Council; Friends of IONS, where she is a board member; The Coalition for OneVoice, Undoing [structural] Racism Alliance; and other efforts that challenge the unexamined assumptions driving US society. Jeana Musacchio is a dancer, dance/movement therapist, recreational therapist, and Director of Therapeutic Recreation at Cabrini Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation for eight years. She has been dancing with the Anahid Sofian Dance Company for twenty-four years, and continues to teach dance and movement to a variety of groups in New York City, including the elderly and the disabled. |
