lostwax

Jamie Jewett is the director of Lostwax Productions, a multi-media dance theater company that seeks to examine the visceral cusp between installation, performance space and narrative through the use of technology. Jewett has choreographed, performed and taught across the U.S. as well as in Bali, Canada, France, Java, Nepal and the United Kingdom. He has been an artist in residence at HERE Center for the Arts in New York City (2003-2005) and STEIM in Amsterdam (2006). His works such as After the Fall (Danspace at St. Mark’s, 2003), as well as Seven Veils (CultureMart, HERE, 2004), Rest/Less (CultureMart, HERE, 2005), Snowblind (commissioned by IMMEDIA for the University of Michigan, 2002), Kindly Bent to Ease Us (2001), and as far back to the evening length works Glyph (1996), and A Cloud In Trousers (1997) utilize interactivity and projections of still and cinematic imagery coupled with live closed-circuit video. The Other Paper (Columbus, OH) called Jewett’s Wexner Center award-winning film Auslander (Lincoln Center 2000) “A glimpse of Ohio film brilliance.” His on-going collaborations with author Thalia Field include performance works such as After The Fall and Seven Veils, Rest/Less, and an online multimedia piece, Zoologic (How2, 2004). Mudra, a collaboration with fellow MEME student Matthew Peters Warne, was recently featured at the 2007 Spark Festival Gala Concert. His most recent work MELT, a commission from the Firstworks Providence Festival, premiered in October of 2007. Jamie received his BA in Dance and Buddhist Studies from Naropa University, an MFA in Dance and Technology from the Ohio State University, an MA from Brown University’s MEME@Brown program (Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments @ Brown). He completed his PhD in New Media and Performance at Brown University in 2008. Jamie teaches at RISD and Brown, among other locations.