
Núria Font will be participating in Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center, where she will give a talk on January 28th.
Filmmaker and producer, Núria Font has been running Mostra de VideoDansa, a Spanish biannual dance film festival, for twenty years, and her own production company Nu2 since 2003. She has been a galvanizing force for dance on camera, commissioning films from Spanish artists, exhibiting them internationally, and conducting research into the field.
The contemporary dance company Les filles Föllen say goodbye to New York on 24th January. For one month they have been performing their show Two Girls Smoke a Cigarette in Only 30 Seconds in different venues throughout the city, such as Zebulon Cafe Concert and Microscope Gallery, as well as La Elástica in Montreal, Quebec. The last performance will take place at the Chelsea Modern Gallery in New York on 24th January.
The Department of Photography and Imaging in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull will host the event Catalan Shots: A Discussion with Joan Fontcuberta and Agustí Torres. Fred Ritchin, professor and associate chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging will moderate the discussion.
La Maison Française of New York University has organized a Symposium In the Tracks of Memory for November 18 and 19, in collaboration with the Institut Ramon Llull and within the program of activities organized in conjunction with the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. A panel discussion entitled "Archaeology of Memory; Archaeology of Death” is scheduled for Saturday November 19 at 9:30am.
On Wednesday 16 November Carnegie Hall in New York will be the setting for the first performance of Il Diavolo by the Catalan composer Jordi Cervelló. It is a work for violin and piano and will be performed by Jesús Reina and Maxim Mogilevsky. The concert is supported by the Institut Ramon Llull.
The Institut Ramon Llull and The Gabarron Foundation are pleased to present Concepts, an exhibition of conceptual art realized by eight visual artists from the Balearic Islands. On view at The Gabarron Foundation's Carriage House Center for the Arts, among New York City's most prestigious cultural institutions, as part of the Institut's ongoing Catalan Days 2011 festival, the exhibition is curated by María José Corominas and Ana Bárbara Cardellà. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 3, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. The Carriage House Center for the Arts is located at 149 East 38th Street, New York, NY.
[The
Institut Ramon Llull is a consortium made up by the Government
of Catalonia and the Government
of the Balearic Islands dedicated to the international promotion of the Catalan
language and the culture of the areas in which Catalan is spoken. The IRL forms
part of the Fundació Ramon Llull, which
was established by the governments
of Andorra, the Ramon Llull Institute, General
Council of the Eastern Pyrenees, the city of Alghero,
and the Network of Valencian Cities, and has its central offices in Andorra]