ann and alexx make dances Greatest Hits! is a combination of performance, dance on film, original sound score, photography and light installation. In this recombined retrospective, chashama’s 112 W 44th Street storefront is transformed into one big dance event by ann and alexx make dances. An homage to the great Merce Cunningham, choreographers Ann Robideaux and Alexandra Shilling take material from five years of dance making, cut it up and combine it by chance to make one new site-specific dance extravaganza!

Live Dance Performance by Amir Levi, Kate Patchett, Alexandra Shilling, Devika Wickremisinghe, and Mimi Yin.

Interactive Light Installation by Lightexture by Architect Yael Erel and lighting designer Avner Ben Natan, intersecting light, shadow and choreography.

A Performance Installation At the chashama Storefront Gallery. lightexture fields is an Interactive light Installation designed to act as a dance space, experimenting with light, movement, shadow drawings, aperture fields and translucency. In collaboration with Sharan Elran and Laura Haak. 

This summer we are happy to support the sixth Summer Play Festival at The Public Theater through lighting the Living room for artists in the Shiva Theater, a performance space and lounge supporting emerging artists of various disciplines. SPF lounge event schedule

The Summer Play Festival (SPF) produces original new plays and musicals by emerging writers during the summer months at the legendary Public Theater in New York City.

Founded by Broadway producer Arielle Tepper Madover, SPF is also committed to providing a low ticket price of only $10 to bring in new audience members to watch and be entertained by theater. Festival show schedule.

July 7th 2009 - Aug 2nd 2009

All Claylight lamps are made in collaboration with ceramic artist Sharan Elran. For more information visit our gallery page

Light Intersecting Movement is a site specific dance installation interacting with screens, light texture and viewers at "Drawing Lightscapes" installation February 27 2009 - at Gallery MC Installation By Yael Erel and Avner Ben Natan curated by Dina Krunic.

Choreographed By ann and alexx make dances - Ann Robideaux and Alexandra Shilling

Dancers: Ana Daniela Galvan, Mimi Yin, Kate Patchett, Andy Miamotto

Music: Jesse Neuman

By Yael Erel and Avner Ben Natan

curated by Dina Krunic

Gallery MC

"Without the light and the screen there can be no picture. To know the picture as the play of light on the screen, gives freedom from the idea that the picture is real." Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Light is drawn onto an installation of screens that register temporal light scapes. Viewers peek behind the screens into constructed environments and enter the depth of the drawings. As one enters, his shadow modifies the drawing.

Drawing Lightscapes explores the tension between the physical and the projected through using light as a medium to draw lightscapes onto screens and lighting objects as an instrument to project, filter and reflect this light. The installation uses light as a projectional drawing device at the scale of architecture. It is composed of screens and custom light fixtures that are designed to work together to create several different immersive environments.

The screens allow for two major modes of viewing: the unobstructed view of the lightscapes as drawings, which imply an imaginary scape, as well as narrow passage zones, which encourage the viewer to peek behind the screens and enter the field of projection. As one journeys behind the screen, one enters into the depth of the drawing and in so doing modifies the drawing itself. The existence of multiple modes of viewing creates a perceptual scale shift in the experience of the viewer, moving from abstraction to humor.

Light is a transient, ineffable material in its nature; drawing with light maintains this fleeting quality through temporary registration of moments, rather than maintaining a fixed recording of them. As the projection stops, the screen returns to its original blank state, with no trace of the drawings that passed through its surface.

The third exhibition in the “Crossing Disciplines” series, an ongoing series of faculty exhibitions that explores themes shared by artists and designers in multiple departments of Pratt Institute, featuring the work of Pratt faculty members across all departments. Work selected and curated by Artist Keith Sonnier.

“SteamLight - Adjustments”

We were selected to exhibit our installation An assembly of 7 of our SteamLight wallmount lamps in an L constructed out of the edge points of a 9 square grid. The lamps are all identical, and are rotated and tilted differently to explore the variety of light pattern and conditions possible in through such adjustments and see the spatial implications such adjustments may hold. We placed a vellum screen which acts as the canvas for a “light drawing” capturing only the texture the lamps create and the view of the light texture drawing rather than the object.

"SteamLight fields" Oct. 2008 to Jan. 2009

This custom Claylight light element is a site specific design for a double story space of a residential New York townhouse.

Designed and constructed in collaboration with ceramic artist Sharan Elran.

The chandelier is site specific element that interacts with several spaces - the kitchen, dining room, garden and second floor living room. Anchored by a channel bent at the radius of the space, it supports twelve hanging ceramic egg enclosures that musically play with the different levels. The Clay enclosures create both a direct utility light on the dining area below and a patterned drawing on the surrounding walls.

Lightexture lamps installed in domestic settings.

MESA COYOACAN Auténtica Cocina Mexicana en Williamsburg by amazing Chef Ivan Garcia - 372 Graham Ave. Brooklyn. Steamlight™s light the bar and Santa maria de guadalope

Light and lamps at La Barra Cevicheria - The lamps are incorporating oaxacan black pottery and pottery by ceramic artist Sharan Elran.

250 Broome Street NYC labarranyc.com

88 Orchard Cafe, Manhattan, New York.

Screens register light from SteamLights, bodies casts their shadow.

SteamLight animations demonstrating the movements and motions of the lights. The lamps do not move on their own.

Lightexture prototypes and one-of-a-kinds.

SteamLight family pictures.