Satellite Collective

Satellite Collective is a non-profit, multi-medium artist collective based in New York City and led by Kevin Draper. Functioning as an “arts incubator”, Satellite Collective generates accessible creative opportunities for artists in the performing and visual arts. Satellite Collective builds global artist coalitions to achieve innovative art exhibitions, structured by intersecting diverse mediums of art. Contributing artists of Satellite Collective are writers, poets, composers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, digital artists, photographers, and designers whose collaborative projects emerge as multimedia ballet performances, a musician ensemble, and an online periodical. Satellite Collective has received press attention from New York Times and The New Yorker.

Projects

Satellite Ballet

Satellite Ballet was founded in 2010 by Kevin Draper and Troy Schumacher after they met by chance at their apartment building in New York City and began to create an experimental ballet.[1][2] Draper's surrealistic poetry served as the interpretative foundation of Schumacher's choreography, an unconventional technique that transcended the typical method of developing choreography based on a piece of music.[1][3] Draper then introduced Schumacher to composer Nick Jaina, who had previously performed at Draper's art venue in Michigan.[2] Soon after, the three artists began collaborating with other artists on the ballet project: these artists became the founding artists of the Satellite Ballet. The founding artists agreed to an egalitarian structure in which all the artists and their diverse mediums of art were equal and deserved equal representation in projects.[4] For the first few years, the artists collaborated under the name Satellite Ballet but after Schumacher split from Satellite Ballet in 2013 to begin BalletCollective, Satellite Collective reformed under new choreographers and performs under the name Satellite Collective.[4]

Satellite Collective Performing Arts

Satellite Collective is a multi-medium exhibitive branch of the artist collective creating dance, literary works of poetry and librettos, musical compositions (Satellite Ensemble), digital art, film, photography, and spoken word.[4][5][6] The collaborative process is very much present during the development of new works as artists employ technology to exchange ideas, concepts, and ideas.[2] New dance, music, short film, multimedia, and spoken word projects are created each year by Satellite Collective, and these projects are first previewed through the Satellite Summer Residency at the Dogwood Center for Performing Arts in Fremont, Michigan; premiere performances are held in New York City – a seasonal structure established in earlier years with the Satellite Ballet. Satellite Collective performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music and in 2014, Satellite Collective was selected by the BAM/Devos Institute of Arts Management at Kennedy Center for the professional development program of Brooklyn Academy of Music.[4][7]

Transmission Magazine

The Transmission Journal is an international online arts periodical dedicated to the conversation between artists and writers. Contributors to the Transmission Online Periodical include nationally reputable writers including Roy Scranton, Matt Gallagher, and Pedro Ponce.[8]

Telephone International Arts Exchange

"Telephone" is an international arts exchange that globally joins artists. This project operates much like the game telephone: artists of various mediums interpret the work of other artists with their own work, passing a single message from art form to art form.[9]

Methods and Processes

Satellite Collective produces projects by creating teams of artists who utilize collaboration directly on works with equal billing regardless of the core arts vertical in which the finished work may be categorized.[4] This has challenged reviewers of the organization's performances, some of whom have argued that the individual art forms deserve singular focus and that the mixed form is perplexing,[1] while others have argued that the mixed art forms are competing for attention.[10] For instance, Creative Director Kevin Draper's projections have been called both "tacked on"[4] and "intriguing".[10] A typical performance of the Satellite Collective Performing Arts includes music, dance, spoken word, short film, multimedia and experimental lighting.[11][12]

SATELLITE COLLECTIVE LOGO

Satellite Collective Artists and Directors [13]

Founding Artists

  • Brandon Stirling Baker - Resident Lighting Designer
  • Kevin Draper - Creative Director, Resident Writer, Visual Artist
  • Nick Jaina - Musical Director, Composer: Piano, Guitar, Vocals
  • Nathan Langston - Composer, Dramaturge, Violin
  • Amanda Lawrence - Composer: Viola
  • Lora Robertson - Visual Director, Visual Artist

Contributing Artists

Dancers

w/Satellite Collective

  • Alexander Anderson
  • Guilia Carotenuto
  • Ching-I Chang
  • Lauren Ferguson
  • Mistral Hay
  • Kit McDaniel
  • Isaies Perez
  • Jenifer Rose
  • Elena Valls
  • Michael Wright

w/Satellite Ballet and Collective

  • Justin Peck
  • Lauren King
  • Daniel Applebaum
  • Marika Anderson
  • Emilie Gerrity
  • Samuel Greenberg
  • Lauren King
  • Taylor Stanley
  • Lydia Wellington

Transmission Magazine Editors and Contributors [14]

Editors

Contributors

  • Matt Gallagher
  • Roy Scranton
  • Marion McReady
  • Signal-Return Press
  • Pedro Ponce
  • Kellie Wells
  • Thomas Patterson
  • Daniel Wilson
  • Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman
  • Claudia LaRoco

Official Links

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Harss, Marina. "A Dancer’s Creative Evolution". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harss, Marina. "Troy Schumacher – Satellite Ballet & New York City Ballet – Choreographer and dancer". DanceTabs. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  3. ↑ "Troy Schumacher/Satellite Ballet". The New Yorker. The New Yorker. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Burke, Siobhan. "Packaged Stylishly, Art Forms and Poetry". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Seibert, Brian. "Circling the City and the Cosmos Looking for Love". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "Satellite Ballet". Oberon's Grove. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "Brooklyn Academy of Music...". bam.org. Brooklyn Academy of Music. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  8. ↑ "Transmission". Satellite Collective. Satellite Press. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Telephone". Satellite Collective. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Rizzuto, Rachel. "Plenty to see, or too much?". Bachtrack.com. Bachtrack. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Collective, Satellite. "2014 Brooklyn Academy of Music performance program". wikipedia.com. Satellite Collective. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  12. ↑ Collective, Satellite. "2012 NYC performance program". wikipedia.com. Satellite Collective. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
  13. ↑ "Artists". Satellite Collective. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  14. ↑ "Editors and Contributors". Satellite Transmission. Retrieved 28 February 2015.