Projects
2014 Projects
WestFest 2014
As members of the Westbeth Artists’ Community, Robert Wood DANCE performed Trio & Octetto from the ambient evening-length work siLenCe, an interior exploration that premiéred at The Florence Dance Festival in 2004. April 24th-27th, Westbeth Artists’ Residence, 55 Bethune street, West Village, New York City.
New Zealand Tour
In preparation for the making of a new evening length work, RWD company members tour throughout Robert’s homeland for five weeks (May-June). The artistic and aesthetic purpose is to experience deeply, through visual, aural, visceral and kinetic sensory means, the extraordinary natural as well as cultural environments of Aotearoa (New Zealand). Visual documentation is a primary focus of the preparatory movement work and stage design to be achieved on this tour. Visiting Artist residencies at The New Zealand School of Dance and the University of Otago also create valuable opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange.
2013 Projects
Dance Artists of the Meatpacking District
New York City has frequently provided alternative sites and spaces for dance performances. This ongoing photo and oral history project documents a variety of the dance events that took place in some unusual locations around the City.
It is also the name of our social media outreach. Follow RWD on Facebook, Twitter and Instragram at #danceartistsofthemeatpackingdistrict
The Consulate
The Consulate, currently in its design and development phase, will house a multi-purpose environment with portable staging for on-site performances as well as creative development areas. The site is located in 59 acres of scenic woodland one hour outside of New York City. Our vision is to provide a creative space outside of the city where artists can work together, inspired by the beauty of the natural environment.
2012 Projects
Coreografia
The Lensic, Santa Fe’s Performing Arts Center. Santa Fe, NM. Saturday, October 6, 2012 – 7:30 pm.
In this sensuously intriguing evening, New Zealand choreographer Robert Wood reveals his signature – an open-procedure approach to the choreographic art of the Dance that is Wood’s unique humanist and theatrical expansion of the Merce Cunningham and John Cage legacy. With his Company of virtuoso dancers, Wood enters an explorative theatrical world of pure movement that embraces Oceanic influences in it’s engagement of East and West, and where a driving attitude creates dancing that is inherently provocative and replete with emergent, sensual imagery served on a plate of vibrant, original, musical soundscapes.
This Coreografia evening follows an ‘event’ format, with excerpts from the RWD repertory and new sequences and musical scores arranged for this Santa Fe performance … an evening of dance as the experience of stillness and motion, deeply expressive of being human.
Robert Wood Dance has presented open-procedure Movement Artworks in Europe, Asia and Oceania.