letty bassart
Performance Maker + Teacher + Researcher + Arts Leader + Thought Partner
Photo by Roxana Barba. Installation by Carol Jazzar.
About
i am a
performance maker (collaborator, contributor, director, improvisor, choreographer, dramaturge, performer),
teacher (enthusiastic nourisher of cultural futures),
researcher (avidly seeking, threading, uncovering, expanding, physically theorizing), and
partner (in conceiving, thinking, imagining, materializing, enacting. in matters of ephemerality and grit).
The work i am a part of becomes through a commitment to pouring RIGOR, and COMPASSION into every crevice of cultural production.
my efforts traverse art forms, genres, disciplines, institutions, and sectors.
i began devising performance in 2003. Since then, i have been fortunate to partner with esteemed colleagues to generate more than thirty long and short form works.
Selected Recent projects
Evidence of Things Unseen as part of Bits and Pieces curated by Victoria Mora at Miami Light Project. Funding support from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs.
Synchrony Project under the direction of Susie Green, featuring UM lap top ensemble, guest artist, Kyle Hutchins, and activations by UM dance artists
Untitled, a response to Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman’s work at the Lowe Art Museum
Here, Now, an improvisational duet with Daniel Bernard Roumain for Miami Light Project Here & Now
a durational performance in response to Carol Jazzar’s Last Call, New Glory installation
Highlights:
Un/Nameable One, Two, Three co-created with sha Harrell, Gema Corredera, Sevim Abaza, and Daniel Bernard Roumain (originally commissioned by Miami Light Project for Here & Now)
A Symphony Apart, orchestral installation by Musicians of the Charlotte Symphony (made possible by Ben Geller and Lydia Bittner-Baird)
Surplus Reiterations Exhibition, a set of gallery interventions created in collaboration with Tom Scicluna and Rod Faulds, at FAU’s Ritter Art Gallery and Schmidt Public Space
Some Ways to Continue?, a performance installation for UCLA’s Room 200 co-created with every person that walked into the space, as well as UCLA graduate and undergraduate student communities, and the technical and production teams at World Arts and Cultures/Dance
several early collaborations with Berlin-based artist, Ilana Reynolds, e.g. Flower Chronicles, Requiem for a Mustard Seed, Good, God, Go, and 100
Contact
Current project synopses; CV; work samples, as well as artist, teaching, and research statements
available upon request