Archive
Collaborations with
Rebecca Patek
The Future Was Looking Better In The Past
2015
L.A. Dierker’s collaborations with Rebecca Patek span a period of over fifteen years. Premieres and performance venues have included the Mulberry Street Theater, The Chocolate Factory, The Kitchen and MoMA in NYC and the Fringe Festival in Philadelphia. They also were honored as Artists in Residence at Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire.
Below is a video excerpt of The Future Was Looking Better In The Past: My Family Herstory:Or from religious persecution to american greed to murderous infamy to denial, repression and the slow dissolution into moral confusion, financial ruin and karmic retribution. The piece was co-commissioned and presented with Abrons Arts Center at The Chocolate Factory.
The Future Was Looking Better In The Past invokes the story of Leopold and Loeb to hold a mirror to her own “crimes” and investigate a personal history involving familial guilt, tainted blood, and bad karma. Music and sound design by L.A. Dierker.
An excerpt of The Future Was Looking Better in the Past.
CREDITS: Created by Rebecca Patek. Performed by John Hoobyar, Sheila Lewandowski, David Patek, Sam Roeck, Chris Tyler, Peter Mills Weiss and Jaime Wright. Music and Sound Design by L.A. Dierker. Lighting Design by Joe Levasseur. Video Design and Production by David Pym. Video Production by Vincent Lafrance.
Tunnels
2016
Part of the Sites of Absence show at the glasshouse in Brooklyn
Featuring work by Julie Tolentino, Rebecca Patek, Camila Caneque & Maria Jose Arjona
Sites of Absence presented performance devoid of its spectacle nature. It highlighted the frames of pre and post performance works by genuine voices in contemporary performance art, providing an observation on the remains or leftovers from a powerful presence. A floor-plan, a charcoal sketch of what would become a durational piece, a social media feed, an edited video, a wrapped journal exploding with gathered materials—each of these objects were exhibited as traces to the essential code of performance, gifting a rare intimate view on the individuality of process and its fluid archiving.
Rebecca Patek’s piece, Tunnels, made in collaboration with L.A. Dierker, was performed as part of the exhibit.
Soundscores for Dance
Collaborating with choreographer Rebecca Patek, environmental sounds, both natural and man made, have been utilized as the music of dance. Performances of these dances have included the Mulberry Street Theater in NYC, the Fringe Festival and Glue Performance Series in Philadelphia, and the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond, Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire.
One
2003
ONE was presented by the Mulberry Street Theater, New York City, in their bi-annual New Steps Series in November 2003. It was also performed at the Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond, Keene State College, Keene, NH where Dierker and Patek were guest artists in January 2004. The dance has also been performed in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2003 and at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.
This electroacoustic soundscape composition was composed in collaboration with choreographer Rebecca Patek and was developed from a previously composed piece, Winterbeech and Pine (2002).
Choreography: Rebecca Patek
Music: L.A. Dierker, Windward of Winterbeech, Reprised (2003)
Dedicated to Rebecca Shaw Patek
Costumes: Rebecca Patek and Trayer Run-Kowzun
Venue: Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond, Keene State College, Keene NH January 2004
Dancers: Catherine Acquaviva, Ebony Dukes, Rebecca Patek, Trayer Run-Kowzun
Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 10:30 EDT
2004
This electroacoustic soundscape composition weaves three different recordings into a tapestry of sounds, which choreographer Rebecca Patek has integrated into dance movement and drama. The collaborative process involved an initial sharing of ideas, and the creation of a "working sketch" of the electroacoustic soundscape. Following dance rehearsals with this sketch, changes in both the dance and composition by composer and choreographer were made until the final version for performance was developed.
The title of the dance and the composition was determined by the date and time of one of the two recordings done in Keene, New Hampshire. The third recording is of the percussionist Mike Patek.
Choreography: Rebecca Patek
Music: L.A. Dierker
Percussion composition and performance: Mike Patek
Costumes: Trayer Run-Kowzun and dancers
Venue: Redfern Arts Center on Brickyard Pond, Keene State College
Dancers: Catherine Acquaviva, Ebony Dukes, Rebecca Patek, Katerina Rajch, Trayer Run-Kowzun