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Andrea Lerner and Rosane Chamecki are the Artistic Directors/Choreographers of ChameckiLerner. Natives of Curitiba, Brazil, they each received a B.A. from the Pontiff Catholic University of Paran½ before moving to New York City. By 1993 they had created ChameckiLerner and earned their first invitations to festivals in Europe and South America. The duet "Jackie and Judy" received outstanding reviews from critics in Venezuela, Belgium, and The Netherlands. In 1994, New York's Dance Theater Workshop produced their first evening-length piece "The Butterfly Effect." The following year, they created "homemade," produced by Performance Space 122. From 1996 to 1997, ChameckiLerner was partly supported by the Siemens Corporation, and created "Fatiado," "Waiting Room" and "Antonio Caido." About "Antonio Caido" Cerinda Survant from The Oregonian said, "Seldom is a dance at once as enigmatic and crystal clear as Antonio Caido. Movement so satisfying in itself rarely occurs in a dramatic context so well-defined. The story is wrenching and painful; the telling is elegant and terse." Their fourth evening-length piece, "Please Don't Leave Me" premiered in Brazil in November 1998. In 1999 ChameckiLerner presented two New York premieres. "Please Don't Leave Me" was presented at Performance Space 122 in February 1999. Deborah Jowitt of The Village Voice wrote, "Dance being what it is, the twining, slipping away bodies stand for all the tribulations of partnership. You laugh at the god-awful positions they get into even as your own body absorbs their heat and fatigue." Later that year, ChameckiLerner premiered the evening-length "I Mutantes Seras," at Dance Theater Workshop. "One of the loveliest performances I've seen in months," wrote Elizabeth Zimmer of The Village Voice. ChameckiLerner presented two more world premieres in 2001. "Poor Reality" premiered at The Joyce Theater's Altogether Different Festival in January. "...as hermetic and intensely emotional as ever..." wrote Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times. "Hidden Form," was co-commissioned by the Central Park SummerStage and the American Dance Festival where it was presented as part of the Emerging Generation showcase. Byron Woods of Durham's News and Observer wrote, "...the strongest of the works, ChameckiLerner's ïHidden Form,' ... fused artistry with disturbing insights into human relationships and self-sabotage. This is, most likely, the success story we'll think of the next time an Emerging Generation showcase arrives." Between events, the duo attended the New York Film Academy on the grant Bolsa Virtuose awarded by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. In 2003, ChameckiLerner premiered ñVisible Content" at Dance Theater Workshop in New York, They also became the curators/artistic directors of ñCasa Hoffmann", a center for movement studies in Curiitba, Brazil, where they invite artists, critics, scholars and curators to exchange ideas with the local community. This year, ChameckiLerner will choreograph a commissioned work for the students at Women's University, in Texas. In March the company tours Brazil with the pieces "Hidden Form/Visible Content". In April, they will start production of new work, co-produced by Dance Theater Workshop, to premiere at TBA festival, produced by PICA, in Oregon. ChameckiLerner's work has been presented in various international dance festivals and venues in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Finland, Denmark, Venezuela, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Portugal, The Netherlands, Austria and Canada. They have been commissioned to create two original pieces for the Venezuelan dance company Espacio Alterno, and for Brazil's Teatro Guaira Ballet Company, M.A.Dancers in Finland and; in 2003, they created ñInstante" for the WOO Co., in Denmark. Chamecki and Lerner, have taught workshop in the US and at festivals abroad, and often teach at Movement Rsearch and Dancespace in New York. The Company has received support from the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, The Joyce Theater's 2000 Altogether Different Fund for New Works, Mary Flaggler Charitable Trust, Altria, The Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, Meet the Composer, New York State Council for the Arts, Siemens, and The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. |