Reviewed by Flash Light
Artist, New York City

Four SummerFest performances transcend time and space:James Chute UNION-TRIBUNE ARTS EDITOR

"The addition of Peter Terezakis' video toward the end of the piece, presumably showing the names of the fallen in the riot, seemed superfluous. And Liam Clancy's mannered, ill-advised “Dance Narration” that served as prologue was at best a distraction. "

In at least one recent piece by Green and in her new duet Abandon, artist Peter Terezakis's light installations play a vital role. Tom Ontveros's video projections and original lighting designs (recreated at these performances by Carol Mullins) grace the also new Full Circle...

The landscape that backs Green's Abandon is a video involving Terezakis's installations in the Sonoran Desert. Shot from diverse angles at dusk and nightime hours, the slender light columns dotting the terrain illuminate or go dark on individual schedules. Green spends a lot of time watching the scenes projected on a huge sheet of suspended fabric, as if she's dreaming them. Monica Bill Barnes—a marvel of rapid, fluently tumbling changes—enters Green's dreamy space like a small whirlwind, as if trying to awaken Green and pull her into another world of motion. Green copies some of Barnes's calmer moves, and the two dance facing one another, but, left alone, Green has her own concerns. What her arms shape, what her eyes see on the floor are mysteries, but performed with lovely clarity they stir our imagination.

Curtea Veche
Spectacol de dans si lumini

Coregrafa americana Allyson Green va propune publicului bucurestean, pe 17 iulie, la Palatul Voievodal Curtea Veche, un spectacol de dans si o instalatie de lumini creata de artistul vizual Peter Terezakis pentru spatii neconventionale.

Proiectul intitulat "Heart Beats Light" implica si o serie de dansatori romani: Cristina Bercuci si Andreea Capitanescu (membre ale companiei Orion Balet), Mihaela Dancs, Catalina Gubandru, Cosmin Manolescu, Nadia Marin si Andreea Novac.

Spectacolul este precedat de o improvizatie coregrafica prezentata de Allyson Green si de grupul de dansatori romani in 7 iulie, cu ocazia vernisajului expozitiei "Blue Moon, Black Sea" a artistului vizual Peter Terezakis, la Galeria Noua.

Atelierul va continua in perioada 12-17 iulie si propune pentru artistii interesati tehnici de dans contemporan Merce Cunningham. Proiectul se va finaliza la Constanta, in 31 iulie, printr-o instalatie de lumini si o improvizatie coregrafica pe plaja.

Summer Dance Festival Continues at UWM
The UWM Dance Program, directed by Marcia Parsons, has received a $6,800 grant from the City of Milwaukee Arts Board to host the second annual Summer Dance Festival, a series of concerts and free dance events. The concerts--Growing, featuring the Danceworks Performance Company and Present Music; UWM Summerdances, featuring work by UWM faculty and guest artist Lisa Race; and Older New Dancemakers, a concert of work by the Program's graduate students--all take place at the UWM Peck School of the Arts Mainstage Theatre, 2400 E. Kenwood Boulevard, on the UWM campus. The site-specific Dances-To-Go will take place in city parks. (Please see attached Fact Sheet for details.)

Light Steps begins at 7:30 PM. All events are free.

DANCES-TO-GO features large group works by UWM Dance faculty member Marcia Parsons and smaller pieces by UWM dance majors. The evening begins at dusk with a light installation by New York-based artist Peter Terezakis.

Grab a blanket and come on over!

Riga, August 29, 2006. – Next week American choreographer Allyson Green, her husband visual artist Peter Terezakis and British composer Alan Stones will stage a “Heart Beats Lights” show in Jurmala and Cesis. It will be performed by 10 Latvian Academy of Culture’s Modern Dance Choreography program 4th year students. The project is supported by the United States embassy in Latvia.


This is an ongoing exchange project to create site-specific dance performances with unique light installations; it also includes intensive workshop in contemporary dance technique as well as the creation of the new original dance performance where art, technology and dance merge. The performance is shown at full moon time which has a symbolic meaning – life and death, the full circle which ends and starts (lights switching on and off).

For the performances in Latvia, the composer Alan Stones will incorporate sounds and music from Romania and Greece as well as real 100 years old grandmother’s voice recordings will be expressed into the dance – telling to the child the meaning of the life. Also Latvian students are asked to come with their inputs and bring stories from their grandparents whose stories will be shown in dance and some words into music.

Allyson Green is in Latvia on behalf of the invitation by choreographer and the leader of Latvian Academy of Culture’s Modern Dance Choreography program Olga Zitluhina. During her stay in Latvia, the U.S. choreographer teaches classes in Riga in contemporary dance technique and improvisation for local students, also leads a workshop in pedagogy and contemporary critical theory for teachers at the Modern Dance Department at Latvian Academy of Culture. One of the main aims of the project is to maintain collaboration and exchange through artistic and educational projects involving artists from United States and Latvia.

Previous “Heart Beats Light” projects have taken place in such locations as the ocean cliff sides of Thesassia, Greece, along the Danube River of Bratislava, Slovakia, in castle ruins in Bucharest, Romania, on the shores of the Black Sea in Constanta, Romania and with dancers from Estonia, Croatia, Romania and America at the Torrey Pines beach of California.

The “Heart Beats Light” performances will take place on:

* 7th of September, Jurmala Dzintari beach at 20:30;
* 9th of September, Cesis Castle Park at 20:30.

Admission to the shows is free of charge.

U.S. Embassy, Riga, Public Affairs Section
Smilsu iela 7
Riga, LV 1050
Phone: 371 750-9022
Internet: www.usembassy.lv

The starting point for this performance work was a video. Two distinct dance performances in New York and San Diego were developed as embodied dimensions of the video.

An abstract poetic remix of the story of Antonie Saint-Exupery's Little Prince and his flower, this work meditates on time, history, and the delicate liminal spaces between the visible and invisible."  --Heather Raikes 

Ligtht Jacket by Peter Terezakis

va invita MIERCURI, 7 IULIE 2004, ORA 18:00
la vernisajul expozitiei

PETER TEREZAKIS
BLUE MOON, BLACK SEA

Galeria Noua prezinta o selectie din lucrarile lui Peter Terezakis, inclusiv citeva in premiera - "Blue Moon, Black Sea" si "Heart Beats Light" (sculpturi cinetice luminoase si audio).  Dupa vernisaj, la ora 18:30 va avea loc un live dance performance - ALLYSON GREEN
O instalatie site-specific a lucrarii "Heart Beats Light" si un dance performance vor putea fi vazute in spatiul de la Curtea Veche pe 17 iulie, iar pe data 30 iulie va fi prezentata la Constanta o varianta a lucrarii Blue Moon, Black Sea - ca parte a seriei de spectacole cu Allyson Green,
Cosmin Manolescu si membrii Teatrul de Balet "Oleg Danovski".

Instalatiile luminoase ale artistului american Peter Terezakis constau intr-o serie de tuburi fluorescente verticale amplasate la distanta unul de celalalt, care descriu un contur in peisaj / spatiu si care devin interactive la miscarea umana pe baza unor senzori. Lucrarile sale au fost recreate si repetate in diferite variante si spatii, chiar continente, de fiecare data rezultatul fiind diferit. De aceasta data, artistul va realiza o varianta site-specific pentru Galeria
Noua.

Pe data de 8 IULIE la ORA 17:00 Peter Terezakis - GALLERY TALK (un tur al galeriei cu detalii despre lucrarile din expozitie)

Allyson Green was based in New York from 1986-2001, where she performed with the companies of Yoshiko Chuma SOHK, Charles Moulton, Doug Varone, Randy Warshaw, and Bill Young. She has collaborated with international choreographers Ben Wright (UK), José Navas (Montreal), Dominique Porte (France) and Meg Stuart (Belgium). Collaborations with her husband visual artist Peter Terezakis explore the merging of art, technology and the body in site-specific performances and installations. Her company, Allyson Green Dance, has been presented in Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, France, Hungary, Macedonia, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Venezuela, and throughout the United States including yearly seasons in New York. Her choreography has been awarded support from numerous foundations including The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, the U.S. Department of State, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, Pew Charitable Trusts and The Jerome Foundation. Her work has been particularly influenced by a decade of teaching and choreographic research in East/Central Europe. She has been the recipient of eight fellowships from The Suitcase Fund (DTW/Rockefeller Foundation), which took place in Brazil, Macedonia, East Germany, the Slovak and Czech Republics, and Romania. Most recently she was the recipient of a 2006 CEC ArtsLink award for a residency in Riga, Latvia. Green also maintained an active visual arts career as a painter and an award-winning graphic designer for numerous arts organizations and PBS television. She is currently the Head of Dance at the University of California, San Diego. She served on the Danspace Project Artist Advisory Board, New York from 1996 -2002, was the Artistic Director of the multidisciplinary arts center Sushi Performance and Visual Art from 2003-5, for which she was named one of the top arts leaders in San Diego by the Union Tribune.

PETER TEREZAKIS - BLUE MOON, BLACK SEA
miercuri, 7 iulie 2004, ora 18:00 - vernisajul expozitiei

May Their Memories Be Eternal
The Servants of God

A choreographic collaboration with Ben Wright and US choreographer Allyson Green.

Allyson and myself have known each other for some 8 years now and this duet marks the first time that we have actually ever danced together professionally. The project was begun in July 2002 at Greenwich Dance Agency where we completed four weeks of working time. At the end of this period we had a clear sense of the pieces direction but needed a considerable amount of time to complete the process. As we had a premiere date already booked in New York for January 2003 it was imperative that a second and third period was needed to finish the work. Due to the geographical distance between us it was clear that these following periods of working time would have to be conducted in the US.

Thanks to funds from the Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship I was able to fly to San Diego in November 2002, where Allyson is based, and spend a further three weeks working intensively on the duet. During-my five-week stint in California I was also able to create a new short work for the Beverly Hills High School Dance Company, which was also premiered in January 2003.

The November rehearsal period was a pivotal amount of time where we were able to question and fine-tune the growing nature of the work. The duet format can give rise to a whole host of emotional connotations and it became clear that our choreographic invention was summoning up a fragmented story. This fractured narrative grew organically form our movement investigation and while in San Diego we called on the assistance of a local theatre director, Margaret Williams, to help guide this through line.

Allyson had in her possession a book of poetry by Bernice Kenyon a contemporary of Dorothy Parker. This old volume was in fact given to her grandmother as a gift by the authoress herself. The final set of sonnets, entitled 'Interim' was to be the main influence on the overall affecting colour of the work. We decided to set the piece visually in the 1930's to tally with the historical period of the poetry and this choice greatly influenced our lighting designer Sarah Gilmartin and costume designer Leslie Malitz.

We held a viewing of the work in progress at our rehearsal venue, San Diego State University, at the end of November. This was a valuable opportunity to gain feedback from various local dance artists. Their comments helped carve the final version of the duet.

Whilst in America we were also able to meet regularly with the fine artist Peter Terezakis who was creating a visual and sculptural response to the duet. His contribution to the final evenings performance added a gallery type experience where audience members were able to wander around an installation of objects and video works. These were built to illuminate the themes held at the heart of the duet and offer viewers a collection of alternative objects to experience in a more intimate way, hence balancing their group experience of watching the duet en mass.

I returned to the UK at the start of December 2002 to complete other work commitments and returned to the US on 27th December to enter the last stage of rehearsal prior to our premiere at Danspace Project at St Marks Church on January 16th 2003.

I would like to thank The Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship for their generous support in enabling me to complete the second period of rehearsal for this project. Collaborating with Allyson has offered me invaluable insight in to the intimate act of making a dance with one other person. Having won the Jerwood Choreographic award in November 2003 to make another duet with fellow UK dance artist Rachel Krische, I am certain that the experiences of working on 'Interim' will have a dramatic impact on future processes. We have a performance of 'Interim' in June 2003 at Greenwich Dance Agency and subsequent dates in the US during the autumn of 2003. I hope that the trustees will be able to attend the London performance.

Peter Terezakis Beneath the Vault of Heaven,
Light Installation Images 1996 - 2007

Opening reception
Thursday May 24th, 2007 • 6:00pm

"... Peter Terezakis' light installation powerfully suggests
heat lightning fragmenting the desert's night air..."
-- The New York Times, 2000

For the last 12 years, artist Peter Terezakis has been examining the sacredness of nature and open spaces, and questioning the effect development has had on rural areas. Since 1995, he has created temporary kinetic light installations in outdoor site-specific settings in deserts, forests and national parks throughout the world. Terezakis marries art and technology in a visual quest for spiritual engagement. Ordinary florescent lamps are transformed into short brushstrokes of light painting earth and sky. The installations change our perception of space as evanescent fiery discharges invoke a sense of physical movement across an expanding landscape of time and imagination. For Terezakis, this work is a visual metaphor for life's moments, bracketed between birth and death, witnessed beneath the vault of heaven.

Peter Terezakis has originated inter-active works of art varying in scale from simple jewelry-sized objects, to an interactive building designed in conjunction with Donald Trump's architect, Der Scutt. His works have been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad, including Canada, Greece, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Portugal, and Romania. As adjunct faculty at New York City's School of Visual Arts from 1993 to 2000, Terezakis co-created the Extended Forms major within the MFA Computer Art program.

542 West 27th Street, 4th Floor, 10001

In Paragraphs on Wind, Karl Anderson, David Figueroa, Sean Mueller, and Green join the women. The dance is full of beauty, and the crowd adores it. There's good music by Yarden and a stunning light installation by Peter Terezakis that climaxes the dance: Vertical fluorescent tubes, like ancestor spirits, flash in erratic rhythms from the church balcony.

Variety as Spice
Allyson Green Dance at Danspace St. Marks
by Deborah Jowitt
March 8 - 14, 2000

LIGHT, TIME, PLANETART MOTION and technology. These are the bronzes, brushes and canvasses of a campus-wide exhibition and semester-long colloquy that will explore the intersection of art and science on campus this fall.

Students and faculty in the College of Engineering and the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, dance and art will interact with a dozen artists participating in the exhibition.

Forces: Art for the End of the Century is curated by Richard Humphrey '74, president of Creative Affairs for Master Vision International, Ltd.

"From advanced laser and animation technology to the exploration of natural light through prisms and bubbles, the exhibition comes alive with the use of these media and the challenge of discovery they foster," says Humphrey. "The artists in this exhibition use these materials in an attempt to forge a more profound relationship with the fact that we are in a world of rapid and frightening change."

First exhibited in his New York art gallery in 1994, Humphrey conceived Forces, which has since toured to several major American museums.

Forces will unfold around campus throughout the fall, starting with James Ossi's "Russian Constructivism via Venice" installed in the Weis Center in August. Other works will be set up around campus as well as in and around Center Gallery. Forces will include panel discussions and classroom presentations where artists, faculty and students will discuss the relationship between art and science and how it will evolve in the new millennium.

Performance events surrounding Forces include:
# Ron Kuivila's "Locus of Focus," a sound installation critiquing cyberspace and virtual reality, opening Oct. 16.
# Internationally renowned performance artist Laurie Anderson will appear at the Weis Center Nov. 1 with a collection of stories and songs about the future of art and technology.
# The dance department will choreograph an interactive work using fiber optics and software with artist Peter Terezakis Dec. 5 and 6.
- Kathie Dibell