Emerging Artists Commissions: Jen Rosenblit and Jules Gimbrone

Jen Rosenblit has been making dances in NYC since 2005.  Her work has been presented at Dance Theater Workshop as part of the 2009 Fresh Tracks Residency, Juliette Mapp’s Platform 2010 at Danspace Project, was a 2011 studio series recipient and is premiering her newest work, In-Mouth, at New York Live Arts February 2012.  Her work has taken her to Denmark, Moscow and Milan.  She has taught through CLASSCLASSCLASS as well as organized a weekly lab for artists to come together in need of (a)practice in performance.  www.bottomheavies.blogspot.com

Jules Gimbrone is a composer, performer, and artist who lives in Brooklyn. Jules enjoys working with ensembles of musicians, filmmakers, dancers, and artists on large-scale projects and collaborations. Jules also takes pleasure working on the small scale, and seeks to provoke dominant structure within improvisational and experimental practice. In 2008 Gimbrone received the Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media and is a 2010 Brooklyn Arts Council Regrant Recipient. Jules is currently an MFA candidate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College. www.julesgimbrone.com

Pastor Pastureis a revolving expansion of glory and goth.  Through research into aural and visceral structures, this work harnesses the performers in all its queerness, as soft, ecstatic, plural, unknown and full of desire.

ISSUE Project Room’s Emerging Artists Commission program is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.