Joe Levasseur Lighting Designer / Artist

Supernatural Wife @ BAM

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:16:53 -0500

BDT had a super series of perfomances at the Harvey Theater.
Paula Lobo took some great photos for the New York Times:
Big Dance Theater at BAM
Wendy Perron just mentioned BDT in the same article as Merce Cunningham’s Final Event at the Park Avenue Armory, for which I was gratefully an ASM for the shows and New Year’s Eve: Merce’s Other Legacy.

PLUS+++ Just cuz it wasn’t published in the WSJ (the Kurbisgeist figure is estimated):

Palissimo Photos

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:20:24 -0400

Julieta Cevantes took some amazing photos of Palo’s latest.
Check them out HERE

Spring Touring

Mon, 16 May 2011 17:16:15 -0400

After doing some awesome touring with Big Dance Theater, Maria Hassabi, Ishmael Houston-Jones and Jodi Melnick this season, I am happy to be back in New York! Photo was taken in Utrecht during the Springdance Festival.

New Photographs

Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:29:30 -0500

I’ve been into glass and refracted light lately. All of these photos are simply empty or mostly empty glasses.

Painting Show

Wed, 6 Oct 2010 00:22:10 -0400

Performance Space 122 Downstairs Theater / Gallery / Lounge
150 First Avenue - enter on East 9th Street
New York, NY

DATES:

Tuesday, October 12, 2010: 7PM-9PM OPENING
and then on the following schedule:
Wednesday, OCT 13: 7-9PM
Thursday, OCT 14: 7-11PM (includes Thursday Night Social for “I Am Saying Goodnight”)
Friday and Saturday, October 15–16: 7-9PM
Sunday, OCT 17: 2-6PM
Thursday, OCT 21: 7-11PM (includes Thursday Night Social for “Them”)
Saturday and Sunday OCT 23- 24: 2-6PM
Monday, OCT 25: 7-9PM

MORE INFORMATION:

Joe Levasseur has been a mainstay of the downtown dance scene for almost 8 years. His lighting has been described as "magical," "delicate," and "relentless." Working with dozens of the most beloved dance artists of the new century, Levasseur has been involved in hundreds of performances, creating and implementing designs which put him at the forefront of the contemporary genre, netting him a Bessie Award in 2008.

Not surprisingly, Levasseur is no stranger at Performance Space 122, the East Village hotbed of live art - he has designed shows there for choreographers such as Maria Hassabi, LeeSaar The Company, Sarah Michelson, Robbins Childs, Palissimo, among many more. He is also the lighting designer for Ishmael Houston-Jone’s THEM, subsequently premiering on October 21st.

Conceived to be a lobby-lounge as well as a gallery, the space will be open from 7PM to the public as well as patrons before and after each performance taking place in the upstairs.

The work shown in this collection will represent the wide variety of visual art that Levasseur has created in the past five years. From abstract landscapes, to work directly influenced by the choreographers with whom he has collaborated, Levasseur's paintings shed light on this medium in a way that only a lighting designer can. All of the work is available for sale through the artist.

FOR MORE INFORMATION or a price list, please contact Joe Levasseur at joelevasseur@earthlink.net

Website: www.joelevasseur.com
Website: www.ps122.org