ELAINE
SUMMERS
CHOREOGRAPHER / VISUAL ARTIST
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 Energy Changes (1973) Elaine Summers at the Museum of Modern Art NY,NY, Photo by Phillip Hipwell |
SKYTIME™ is a concept art work by Elaine Summers, a choreographer, Intermedia Artist, she is a Fulbright Scholar and an Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies Fellow. She happily thanks the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts for their many years of support and encouragement.
Elaine is now an ancient dancer in life, a choreographer whose imagination is always running away with her. She loves light, and the dance of life with all its wonders and enjoying other people's imaginations. Her early pioneering work in the field of Intermedia explored new technologies and ways of integrating film/video, dance, visual art, and music in live performance.
"I love those moments when a dance vision, a funny thought, a delightful memory, a collage of images, or some strange juxtaposition of many arts floats into your mind, or is it that your imagination is invaded by the vibrations of the cosmos or seduced by your curiosity? Maybe the idea only attacks your imagination once and then goes away: or perhaps like SKYTIME™ it keeps coming back in new disguises:and suddenly you find yourself making a new work. I hope SKYTIME™ is a work that will give us all a chance to participate, to enjoy our new technologies and all the old and new forms of communication. I wish you to be a part of skytime."
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"Flowing
Rock/Still Waters" Rehearsal Lincoln Center Out of Doors Summer
1987. Choreographer Elaine Summers Dancers: Patti Bradshaw, Frances
Becker, Sao Nunes, Melody Morris, Julie Sandler, Barbara Hoffrenning,
Tom Howe, Elaine Summers, Robin Graham, Charles Lawrence, Anne
Walsemann, Meg Dellenbaugh, Jan Hanvik, Anat Shamgar. Photo by
Babette Mangolte.
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" Skytime™ will be realized and completed when all the words for all the parts of the sky in every language have been found and added to our many dimensional expressions of the sky;: and all the histories and imaginings of every culture have been assembled and realized in some form of communication; then we will celebrate SKYTIME™ in some delightful worldwide event that will be the creation of all of us.
"Please tell your friends about skytime and invite them to join and make a skywork. Your name and your skywork can be listed FREE on our Skyworks Page and on the calendar."
 Elaine Summers teaching Kinetic Awareness™ Photo By Paula Court |
Elaine Summers Brief Bio
Elaine Summers pioneered the first total intermedia concert integrating multiple film images, sculpture, music at the Judson Dance theatre in N.Y.City in 1964 with "Fantastic Gardens" Stated reviewers:"Combining live performers and film on a here and now basis - avant garde dance choreographer Elaine Summers searched independently for such a fusion." - Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times. "It was impossible not to be absorbed in the multiple aspects; One could bask in the total atmosphere; unusual and provocative." Jill Johnson, Village Voice "an entire new and complex medium" Dance Scope "Brilliantly realized" Dance Magazine.
Elaine
Summers Dance Co. rehearsal Flowing Rock/Still Waters 1987,
Lincoln Center outdoor, Photo by Bibette Mangolte |
Elaine Summers MA, Fulbright Scholar, MIT Fellow, CAVS and renowned choreographer. An original member of the Judson Dance Theatre and founder of the Xperimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City, Elaine is recognized as a multimedia artist combining dance with all art forms, including film and video. Her works have been favorably reviewed in Dance, Harpers Bazaar, MS Magazine, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Medion (The Museum of the Media), and in numerous other journals and news papers.
Elaine's work in dance and body movements was incorporated as Kinetic Awareness™(the ball work) as a not for profit organization in 1986 and is taught in workshops and for credit in Universities throughout the United States, and at the Kinetic Awareness™ Center in New York City. The process of Kinetic Awareness™ is presented in "Kinetic Awareness: Discovering Your BodyMind", by Ellen Saltonstall. Click here for a review of Ellen's book, or to e-mail skytime@skytime.org.
The Elaine Summers Dance & Film Company has toured nationally and internationally. Elaine presently travels as an invited Artist in Residence as well as serving as the Artistic Director of the Kinetic Awareness™ Center. SKYTIME™ is a work in progress sponsored by the Kinetic Awareness™Center.
 "Invitation to Secret Dancers" Choreographer Elaine Summers. Grita Insam Modern Art Gallery Karlsplatz, Vienna 1983 Photo by Ben Yakov Schlomo |
 Elaine teaching at Memphis State University, TN 1988. Photo by David Horan |
 Elaine rehearsing "Theatre Piece for Chairs & Ladders" 1971 Photo by Dan Budnik |
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All rights reserved. Skytime™
is a project of Kinetic Awareness Center™