PREMIERED: November 2014
COMMISSIONED AND PRESENTED BY: Danspace Project, NYC
RUNNING TIME: 51 minutes

PERFORMERS: Marc Crousillat, Amanda Kmett’Pendry, Sarah Lifson, and Netta Yerushalmy
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE BY: Judith Berkson
COSTUME DESIGN: Magdalena Jarkowiec
LIGHTING DESIGN: Carol Mullins
STAGE DESIGN: Lenore Doxsee

PERFORMANCE HISTORY

Danspace Project (PREMIERE) / New York, NY / November 6-8, 2014 and January 8, 2016
The Joyce Theater Presents Joyce Unleashed at New York Live Arts / New York, NY / March 17, 2015
SUNY Brockport / Brockport, NY / March 9, 2016
The University of the Arts / Philadelphia, PA / Reconstruction, May 2017

Helga And The Three Sailors was made possible, in part, by the Danspace project 2014-2015 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the Jerome Foundation.  Helga And The Three Sailors was supported by a grant from New Music USA, made possible by annual program support and/or endowment gifts from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Paisley Powell Elebash Fund, Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Netta Yerushalmy researched, developed and honed Helga And The Three Sailors with financial, administrative and residency support from the Dance in Process Program at Gibney Dance. Helga And The Three Sailors is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Helga And The Three Sailors was created with the support of a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship and was made possible in part by a 2014 LMCC Process Space Artist Residency (LMCC.net).

PHOTOGRAPHS: Ayala Gazit