YOU ARE HERE
Commission by Andrea Miller to Animate Lincoln Center Campus
as Part of Restart Stages
July 14-30, 2021
You Are Here is a public sculpture, sound, and live performance installation conceived by Andrea Miller for Lincoln Center. You Are Here takes on the processing of the pandemic through song, story, dance, and breath, featuring community audio and performance portraits of members of Lincoln Center and the greater New York arts community. In a sonic garden, created by sound artist Justin Hicks, 18 sculptures, created by Mimi Lien, project the processing of this pandemic year of 26 New Yorkers - performers, educators, security guards, ushers, administrators and volunteers. Each night a unique arrangement of 4-5 participants perform their portrait live accompanied by the GALLIM dancers, returning to the irreplaceable alchemy of embodiment and performance. You Are Here, co-directed by Lynsey Peisinger and with dramaturgy by Iyvon Edebiri, makes history as the first time in which all 13 of Lincoln Center's constituents are collaborating in the same work and is demonstrative of GALLIM's expansive vision to bring movement and life together.
“As we begin to see hope through this pandemic, there is much to grapple with throughout our city and communities. We’re proud to offer You Are Here as part of our collective reflection, processing shared experience, and renewal during a time of trauma.”
— Henry Timms, President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
THE COLLABORATIVE TEAM:
Andrea miller
Co-Director, Choreographer, Conceived by
Andrea Miller is a choreographer, creative director and founder of the internationally renowned multi-disciplinary movement company GALLIM, working in live and digital movement expression and education. Miller’s works for theater, film, fashion, and dance have been described as “as ancient as they are ultra modern.” A Guggenheim, Sadler’s Wells, and Princess Grace Fellow, Miller is the first-ever choreographer to be named Artist in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in 2017 she was featured in Forbes magazine for entrepreneurial leadership in the arts.
Miller is currently working deeply in film and site-specific work, and recently conceived of You Are Here, a sound, sculpture, and performance installation for Lincoln Center with 25 community members processing the pandemic through breath, music, theater and dance. Her films and dance works have been screened/performed worldwide at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Art Basel, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, The Joyce, Jacob’s Pillow, BAM, Royal Albert Hall, Sadlers Wells, Chaillot de Paris, Teatro Nacional de Panama, and more. Recent commissions include New York City Ballet, Martha Graham Dance Company, Pennsylvania Ballet, Rambert2, Ailey II, and The Juilliard School.
Miller is an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College and guest faculty at The Juilliard School. Her repertory, creative methodology, and dance training are taught across the country.
Lynsey Peisinger
Co-Director
Lynsey Peisinger is a performer, director and choreographer. She co-directed and premiered the opera Seven Deaths of Maria Callas with artist Marina Abramovic at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in 2020. In 2018 she co-directed the Mile Long Opera, a citywide public engagement project, which brought together 1,000 singers for performances on The High Line in New York City. Peisinger has collaborated with Marina Abramovic on new performances The Cleaner (2017) in Stockholm for which she coordinated and directed the participation of thirty performers and thirty five choirs, and 512 Hours (2014) in London. They also collaborated on a music project, A Different Way of Hearing (2019), at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt. She has presented solo and group performance works at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, C24 Gallery in New York, SESC Pompeia in Sao Paulo, Performa Paço at Paço das Artes in Sao Paulo, Robert Wilson’s 2nd Annual Berlin Benefit, Hyeres Fashion and Photography Festival, and Kunstfest Weimar. Theatre works include MIDNIGHT, which premiered at Radialsystem Theatre in Berlin in 2016 and Rochambeau, a work in development, both in collaboration with director Tilman Hecker. Since 2011, she oversees reperformances of Abramovic’s historical works and directs the public participatory work The Abramovic Method. She is assistant director on Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter and The Old Woman, both directed by Robert Wilson. She received her MFA in choreography from the Dance Conservatory at Purchase College.
Mimi LIEN
Production Design
Mimi Lien is a designer of sets/environments for theater, dance, and opera. Arriving at set design from a background in architecture, her work often focuses on the interaction between audience/environment and object/performer. She hails from New Haven, CT and is based in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2015, she was named a MacArthur Fellow, and is the first set designer ever to achieve this distinction. Selected work includes Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, TONY Award, Lortel Award, 2013 Hewes Design Award), John (Signature Theatre, 2016 Hewes Design Award), Appropriate (Mark Taper Forum, LA Drama Critics Circle Award), Preludes, The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), An Octoroon (Soho Rep/TFANA, Drama Desk and Lortel nominations), Black Mountain Songs (BAM Next Wave). Her stage designs have been exhibited in the Prague Quadrennial in 2011 and 2015, and her sculptures were featured in the exhibition, LANDSCAPES OF QUARANTINE, at the Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Her designs for theater, dance, and opera have been seen around the U.S. at such venues as Lincoln Center Theater, Signature Theatre, Playwright's Horizons, the Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Joyce Theater, Goodman Theatre, Soho Rep, and internationally at Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre (Russia), Intradans (Netherlands), National Theatre (Taiwan), among many others. Mimi Lien received a B.A. in Architecture from Yale University (1997) and an M.F.A. in Stage Design from New York University (2003).
She is a company member of Pig Iron Theatre Company and co-founder of the performance space JACK.
Justin Hick
Sound Artist
Justin Hicks is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, sound artist, and vocalist who has collaborated with theater makers, musicians, and visual artists such as Abigail DeVille, Kaneza Schaal, Meshell Ndegeocello, Courtney Bryan, Hilton Als, Cauleen Smith, Breck Omar Brunson, Charlotte Brathwaite, Janani Balasubramanian, Sunder Ganglani, and Lee Mingwei. His work has been featured at Lincoln Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Performance Space New York, The Bushwick Starr, Jack, Paisley Park, The Whitney Museum of American Art, BRIC Arts Media House, and The Kennedy Center among others. Along with his wife Kenita Miller-Hicks and sister Jade Hicks he is a founding member of the group The HawtPlates whose visual EP "Make me Down: Songs For Making It Through Alive" was commissioned by The Public Theater. He was a member of Kara Walker’s 6-8 Months Space and holds a culinary diploma from The Institute of Culinary Education in New York City.
Iyvon Edebiri
Dramaturge
Iyvon Edebiri (she/her) is a Nigerian-American independent creative producer, company manager, and dramaturg hailing from Brooklyn, NY. Iyvon is the Artistic Director and Host of The Parsnip Ship, a radio-play series and platform amplifying underproduced playwrights in the audio theater space. She is a recipient of the Fulbright International Scholarship and Gilman International Scholarship (both to Italy), and The DO School’s Future of Audio Entertainment Fellowship in Berlin. Iyvon was the recipient of the 2019 Mark O’Donnell Prize awarded by The Actors Fund and Playwrights Horizons for emerging, anomalous theater artists. Iyvon has worked with Joe’s Pub, Sundance Institute Theater Program, The Public Theater, The Civilians, The OFFICE, and as an Associate Producer at ArKtype. She is a member of the WP 2020 - 2022 Producers Lab and an Affiliate Dramaturg with Beehive Dramaturgy Studio. B.A. Brandeis University. M.A. Baruch College (CUNY) Arts Administration. @iamiyvon
Oana Botes
Costume Designer
Ms. Botez is a Princess Grace Recipient and NEA/TCG Career Development Program Recipient. Nominated for. the Lucille Lortel Award, The Henry Hewes Design Awards, The Theater Bay Area Awards, The Barrymore and Drammy Award. Oana walked away recipient of both The Barrymore and Drammy Award.
Her designs have raised critical acclaim in New York’s BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/Richard B.Fisher Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Soho Rep, LCT3, The Public Theater, 59East59, La MaMa, The Kitchen, PS122, HERE Arts Center, The Joyce Theater, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, BRIC Arts Media, Big Apple Circus/Lincoln Center, and The Classic Stage Company.
Regionally: The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia, PA); Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA); Hartford Stage Company (CT); Long Wharf Theater (New Haven, CT); CalShakes (San Francisco); Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare Theater (DC); Berkeley Rep (CA); ArtsEmerson (Boston, MA); Broad Stage (Santa Monica, CA); MCA (Chicago, IL); Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC); ODC (San Francisco); The Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis, MN); Peak Performances (Montclair, NJ); ADI (Rockville, MD); Academy of Music (Philadelphia, PA); Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia, PA); Cutler Majestic Theater (Boston, MA).
Internationally: Bucharest National Theater (Romania); Arad National Theater (Romania); Bulandra Theater (Bucharest, Romania); Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris); Les Subsistances (Lyon, France); The Old Vic (London, England); Budapest National Theater; Hungarian Theatre of Cluj (Romania); Bucharest Operetta Theater (Romania); International Festival of Contemporary Theater (Adana, Turkey); Le Quartz (Brest, France); La Filature (Mulhousse, France); Exit Festival/Maison des Arts Creteil (Paris, France); Château de Versailles (France); Tanz im August Festival, Hebbel am Ufer - HAU1 (Berlin, Germany); Centro Cultural Universidad del Pacífico (Lima, Peru); Centro Cultural (Lima, Peru); Palazzo Simoncelli (Orvieto, Italy); Edinburgh International Festival (UK); Singapore Arts Festival.
Her collaborators in theater, opera, film and dance include: Robert Woodruff, Les Waters, Richard Foreman, Maya Beiser, Richard Schechner, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Janos Szasz, Andrei Serban, Blanka Zizka, Daniel Ezralow, Daniel Kramer, Jay Scheib, Brian Kulick, Zelda Fichlander, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Doug Elkins, Ken Rus Schmoll, Michael Sexton, Daniel Alexander Jones, Will Davis, Lee Sunday Evans, Megan Sandberg-Zakian, Mary Birnbaum, Lileana Blain-Cruz, Awoye Tiempo, Tea Alegic, Geoff Sobelle, Kristin Linklater, Zishan Ugurlu, Rebecca Taichman, Eric Ting, Alec Duffy, Michael Joseph McQuilken, Razvan Dinca, Karin Coonrod, Kristin Marting, Evan Ziporyn, Eduardo Machado, Gus Solomon Jr. & Paradigm, Carmen DeLavallade, Jackson Gay, David Levine, Dusan Tynek, Rania Ajami, Gisela Cardenas, Pavol Liska & Kelly Copper, Matthew Neenan, Molissa Fenley, Parallel Exit, Pig Iron Company, Play Company, Charles Moulton, Ripe Time, and others.
Ms. Botez is a graduate of Bucharest Art Academy (Romania) and received an MFA in Design from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Botez was a major contributor for the first Romanian theater design catalogue, called Scenografica. Ms. Botez has been teaching costume design at Colgate College, Brooklyn College, and MIT. Ms. Botez is currently an Assistant Professor Adjunct in the Design Department at Yale School of Drama.
Photo by Maria Baranova
PORTRAIT PERFORMERS
Bruce Adolphe (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center)
Kiri Avelar (Ballet Hispanico)
Dietrice Bolden (HARLEM WEEK)
Jessica Chen (Asian American Arts Alliance)
Anthony Roth Costanzo (The Metropolitan Opera)
Ryan Dobrin (Movement Theatre)
Javon Egyptt / Egyptt LaBeija (BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance)
Jermaine Greaves (Accessibility at Lincoln Center)
Milosz Grzywacz (Accessibility at Lincoln Center)
Alphonso Horne (Jazz at Lincoln Center)
Lila Lomax (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts)
Cassie Mey (New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
Muriel Miguel (Spiderwoman Theater)
Ryan Opalanietet (The Eagle Project)
Elijah Schreiner (Laguardia High School for the Performing Arts)
Alexandra Siladi (Film at Lincoln Center)
Paul Smithyman (Lincoln Center Theater)
Hahn Dae Soo (Korean Cultural Center of New York)
Taylor Stanley (New York City Ballet)
Jen Suragiat (Lincoln Center Theater)
KJ Takahashi (School of American Ballet)
Fatou Thiam (Maxine Greene School)
Susan Thomasson (Lincoln Center Education)
Gabriela Torres (The Juilliard School)
Valarie Wong (NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital)
Sculpture Floral Arrangements
Robbie Fairchild of boo•kay NYC
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You Are Here is made possible by Stavros Niarchos Foundation-Lincoln Center Agora Initiative and Jody and John Arnhold, Arnhold Dance Innovation Fund.
You Are Here is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Endowment support is provided by the Blavatnik Family Foundation Fund for Dance.
Support for GALLIM is provided by First Republic Bank.
You Are Here was created, in part, during a guest residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park.
Restart Stages is made possible by Stavros Niarchos Foundation-Lincoln Center Agora Initiative.
Major support provided by First Republic Bank.
Additional support is provided by BNY Mellon, Cleary Gottlieb, Warburg Pincus, the Scully Peretsman Foundation, Shari and Jeff Aronson and Lincoln Center's 20/21 Donors and Members.
Endowment support is provided by Oak Foundation, PepsiCo Foundation, The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
In-kind support is provided by United Staging and Rigging, Worldstage, Inc., Audio, Inc., Hudson Scenic Studio, and TGIF Event Services.
Lincoln Center’s artistic excellence is made possible by the dedication and generosity of our board members.
Operation of Lincoln Center's public plazas is supported in part with public funds provided by the City of New York.
Public support for Lincoln Center is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Gonzalo Casals, Commissioner, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
NewYork-Presbyterian is the Official Hospital of Lincoln Center.
Photo Credits: Andrea Miller by Anne-Michele Mallory, Lynsey Peisinger by Axel Lambrette, Mimi Lien by Emma Pratt, Justin Hicks by Kenita Mikler-Hicks, Iyvon Edebiri by Iyvon E.