Queens in Love with Literature

(QUILL) is a forum that features the works of authors writing in languages other than English and develops the art of translation in Queens.

On October 11, 2011 three QUILL artist advisors in collaboration with choreographers will present a creative translation event entitled: Body of Work. Translation gets a renewed vision through this event. Don’t miss it!

BODY OF WORKGreen Space Studio37-24 24th St, Long Island CityN/Q/7 train to Queensboro Plaza, F train to 21st st$5 Admission- pay at the doorwww.queenscouncilarts.org

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

 Jocelyn Alter, ChoreographerJocelyn Alter is an emerging choreographer, dancer and book artist. In 2007, Jocelyn graduated from SUNY Brockport, and has also studied in Cortona, Italy. In early 2008, she founded Jostle, a Queens-based collaborative dance company. Jostle's work has been presented throughout New York City, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. In September, Jostle premiered Engrain, the company’s first evening-length work funded in part through the Queens Council on the Arts. Jostle was recently chosen as a pilot participant of LEAP, a professional development program for emerging Queens dance artists. Mariana Bekerman, Choreographer

Mariana Bekerman was born in the Ukraine and emigrated with her family to NYC in 1979. After graduating from LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, she received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1996. After receiving her degree, Bekerman danced and choreographed for various companies, resorts, choreographers, off-off Broadway plays, and music artists, both locally and internationally. In 2000 she founded Mariana Bekerman Dance Company (MBDC). To date, Mariana has presented her work at more than thirty venues and festivals, and self-produced several dance concerts, including one at the Joyce SoHo in NYC. In addition, she continues to free-lance as a dancer/choreographer and teacher for other artists, organizations, schools, and productions. Luis Francia, Author/QUILL Artist Advisor 

Luis H. Francia is a poet, journalist, nonfiction writer, and professor. His semiautobiographical account of growing up in the Philippines, Eye of the Fish: A Personal Archipelago, won both the 2002 PEN Open Book and the 2002 Asian American Writers literary awards. His poetry books include The Beauty of Ghosts, The Arctic Archipelago and Museum of Absences. He is the author of Memories of Overdevelopment, a collection of essays, and A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos. He edited Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippine Literature in English, and co-edited Flippin'’: Filipinos on America, and Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream, 1899-1999.  He is included in the Library of America’'s Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing, and the poetry anthology Language for a New Century.  Francia is on the board of trustees of Kundiman Arts; he also teaches at New York University and Hunter College.

Panagiota Lilikaki, Author/QUILL Artist Advisor
Panagiota Lilikaki is a native of Greece, where she was born and raised in the island of Crete. She earned her AA at LaGuardia Community College and her BA in English and secondary education at Queens College where she is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting and Translation. Panagiota is currently working on Bed Monologues, a life journey, through bed lessons, of a young girl; and the translation from the Greek of Guess Who Discovered America? By Chrissysa Spilioti.  Her monologues have been a part of the Queens Stories radio show during the Summer Performing Arts Festival. Panagiota will participate in the 2012 AWP conference in Chicago and is currently serving as an artist advisor for QUILL. 

 Richard Jeffrey Newman, Author/QUILL Artist AdvisorRichard’s works include The Silence Of Men (CavanKerry Press, 2006), a book of his own poems, and the recently published The Teller of Tales (Junction Press 2011), a translation of selected stories from the Shahnameh, the Iranian national epic. Richard edited the special Iranian-literature issue of the online journal ArteEast Quarterly, It Deserves and Should Command Your Attention and served as Persian Arts Festival’s first Literary Arts Director. He co-curates a monthly Night of Persian Poetry at the Bowery Poetry Club and hosts the Jackson Heights Poetry Festival literary salons. He is Associate Professor of English at Nassau Community College in Garden City, New York. For more information, please visit his website, www.richardjnewman.com.

Keomi Tarver, Choreographer/DancerKeomi Rene’s first dance was pressed firm against her mother’s womb and she has continued dancing ever since, growing her art every year that passes. She began her training at the age of 12 based in Lyrical, Modern, West African, Hip Hop, Ballet and Improvisational dance. Throughout the last decade Keomi has showcased her work at various venues such as San Diego State University, Yale University and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has also performed with and choreographed for many Southern California dance companies and is expanding her New York repertoire with her recent move to New York City.

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