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Absolve Commercials
Absolve commercials are about a line of products that specialize in helping conceal evidence helping this mom absolve her of her crimes. Created & performed by James Koroni.
Absolve Chapstick, for lips that are chapped & constantly yap!
Absolve Wipes help to conceal the evidence of any spill!
Absolve Detergent Commercial reveals the secret to removing the toughest stains!
JERRY'S PLANT FRIENDS
Jerry's Plant Friends require a lot of patience! A comedy sketch by James Koroni.
Experience Bank Commercial
‘Experience Bank’ A Bank for Artists! “When they pay artists with anything, but money!”
‘Experience Bank’ is a sketch comedy video about how many artists are undervalued. Often to the point of going unpaid for specialized and difficult work.
Disclaimer: Of course there is always the possibility of a good natured collaboration that could exist between individuals who do feel validated by their exchange. This video does not seek to criticize all circumstances of creative exchange.
Written, produced, and performed by James Koroni.
One Week in Heaven
One Week in Heaven is a new romantic comedy. This farcical feature length film follows six couples as they try to navigate the sometimes rocky road of love and romance in room 601 at Heaven, a boutique hotel located in the french quarter of New Orleans. —J.E. Craig
James Koroni stars in No Evil Entertainment’s ‘One Week in Heaven’, a feature length comedy that comes out sometime in 2021. He’s honored to work with such a hilariously talented cast and crew.
Stay tuned for updates!
Photos by Matty Vogel
Misterwives '3 Small Words'
Official video for "3 small words" from MisterWives' new album 'SUPERBLOOM' out now: https://misterwives.lnk.to/superbloom
Directors: Mandy Lee & Matty Vogel
Director of Photography: Blaine Dunkley
Video Commissioner: Mandee Mallonee
Flower Monster: James Koroni
Choreography: James Koroni & Tracey Katof
Art Director: Marlena Pavich & Mandy Lee
Executive Producer: Steve Gottlieb
Line Producer: Jessica Burgess
AD: Cecilia Delgado
AC: Carrie Stalk Gaffer: Ariel Fischer
Key Grip: Rome Peterson
Swing: Grace Giffune
PA: West Lenz PA: Morgan Maxwell
Band: Etienne Bowler
Band: Will Hehir
Band: Marc Campbell
Band: Jesse Blum
Band: Michael Murphy
Management: Jared Glick
Filmed at Stems in Brooklyn, NY
Orange Juice
ORANGE JUICE - A family drama about a family with drama! By James Koroni https://www.jameskoroni.com/ IG: @JamesKoroni Please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesKoroni?sub_confirmation=1
Not Your Way - Misterwives
James Koroni is honored to have choreographed and performed in the Misterwives music video for single Not Your Way! One of his favorite songs of theirs.
BREAKING NEWS with Kurt Caldwell
Mahboobeh is interviewed by Kurt Caldwell about her upcoming class action lawsuit. Has she really been shaving off people's eyebrows?
NYCTV Local News' Kurt Caldwell interviews Ricky Rick's on his best heart pumpin', full body workout!
NYCTV Local News' Kurt Caldwell interviews Arnie, the first openly gay valedictorian at his college! What can you learn from homosexuals? Watch to find out! Happy Pride LGBTQIA+!
NYCTV Local News' Kurt Caldwell hears about the scary world through art with Louis, a French artist with a lot to say!
NYCTV Local News' Kurt Caldwell talks to Jeremy, a kid who has learned a thing or two about First Lady Melania Trumps' initiative "Be Best".
NYCTV Local News' meteorologist Willow O'vertoyou has your Five Day Weather Forcast & a whole lot more. Kurt Caldwell has the story!
‘Vampires & Quarantine’ Kurt Caldwell has the story!
Look At Me! by James Koroni
LOOK AT ME! By James Koroni
ARTIST STATEMENT
In my transition from adolescence to early adulthood, I was confronted with the startling truth that the status-quo was a facade that my parents and community had created around me, having been passed that same torch by their predecessors. I began to see how important it was to ask critical questions about the society for which I was expected to be a torchbearer. Is there space to define my own values within the context of this vast and uncertain existence? All at once I felt empowered and disempowered.
In Look At Me! I use an array of bold colors and geometric shapes that emphasize the compendium of cultural values, which often seem chaotic, contrasting and in discord - in rare moments, these forms can align like constellations. Through this work I seek to discover how to connect those points through advocacy and alliance in a mission for understanding, liberation and justice. A desire for social harmony is simple enough, yet the pursuit is entirely overwhelming.
I once felt trapped like these characters. Their struggles seem like bars on cages, but with understanding and compassion we can blur those lines, pull each other through and find freedom.
CREDITS
Director & Editor James Koroni
Choreographer James Koroni
Contributing Choreographer Tracey Katof
Dancers Tracey Katof, James Koroni
Director of Photography Jeremy Hernandez
Composer Ruskis
Costume Designer Lui Konno
Painter / Projection Kiko Bordeos
Gaffer Joshua Katcher
Hair & Makeup Randa Eid
Special Thanks Cynthia King Dance Studio
Coming To The City by James Koroni
After living in this magnetic city for a decade I decided to take a day to get lost in it and capture what I observed along the way.
Coming To The City is a collection of moments from the wonderful adventure I took that day. Every day in New York has the potential to feel familiar and brand new at the same time, I hope I captured that sense of nostalgia and adventure.
Comedic Sketches
James Koroni has graduated from the Improv comedy programs at The Upright Citizens Bridage and The Peoples Improv Theater. He also studies Media Studies, screenwriting and filmmaking at The New School in New York city.
James Koroni x A'drey Vinogradov
Model: James Koroni
Photographer: A’drey Vinogradov
Stylist: Randa Eid
BTS Photography by Jeremy Hernandez
SHADOW By James Koroni
Shadow addresses the oppressive nature that standards of masculinity and the dominant patriarchy has on bodies in western culture. The key figures in this work are the body (dancer) and the outside forces (sand / environment) working against it.
The outside forces represent the restrictions within the patriarchy and it's narrow definitions of masculinity. The body represents one born into a world predefined without its consent. The body struggles as it is consumed by the elements.
The artist wonders what a natural world defined by the bodies would look like rather than the reverse.
CREDITS
Director, Editor & Producer James Koroni
Director Of Photography Jeremy Hernandez
Associate Producers Tracey Katof, Jeremy Hernandez
Choreographer James Koroni
Contributing Choreographer Tracey Katof
Dancers Tracey Katof, James Koroni
Shot on Bolex - 16mm Film
Late Nights On Air
Work created in 2018 for the 15th Anniversary of Jonah Bokaer Choreography
Choreography by: Jonah Bokaer
Special Performance by: Angela & Jennifer Chun / Violins
Dressed by: Narciso Rodriguez
Total environment designed by: Charles Renfro, DS+R
Performance by: Laura Gutierrez, James Koroni, Wendell Gray II, James McGinn, Zoltán Grecsó, Sara Procopio, Szabi Pataki
Musical Score by: Nico Muhly; Four Studies; Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. o/b/o St. Rose Music Publishing Co. and Chester Music Ltd. Honest Music; Published by G. Schirmer, Inc. o/b/o St. Rose Music Publishing Co. and Chester Music Ltd.
Lighting design by: John Torres & Solomon Weisbard
Costumes by: Mardana
Developed at: 3LD Art & Technology Center
James Koroni X M I L Ā D
James Koroni Having been raised Mormon yet being Persian and queer has brought me a long challenging path to define and understand my identity. Having to reconstruct that identity has been made more full by friends like talented and intelligent Persian and queer designer @hausofmilad - I had the pleasure of modeling a look from my dear friend Milad’s collection. Read below for this looks inspiration:
Milad Look 1 - The dancer, the sodomite.
Featuring @jameskoroni , photographed by @elsianjelic
The ex President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad famously announced that there are no gays in Iran. This, of course, is not only false but also ironic as homosexuality is still punishable by death in my country.
Unfortunately, the lack of conversation and education on the topics of gender and sexuality has rendered all non heteronormative manifestation as a perversion; a crime. This look is a tribute to Iran’s brave and resilient LGBTQ community. It reclaims ownership of their depiction as demonic sinners.
Details:
Screen-printed mesh top.
Hand-beaded Iranian nomadic woven “harness”.
Hand-painted “carpet” pants.
James Koroni X Trey McIntyre
Photography by Trey McIntyre - http://treymcintyre.com/
Trey McIntyre Photo: Tell us about your background and what you do for a living.
James Koroni: I could say so much. My background and who I am today are two very different things that I very carefully navigate on a daily basis. I was raised by an American Mormon mother and a father who emigrated from Iran, he was raised as a Muslim. My parents were separated before I was born. My mother remarried another Mormon man and my father also remarried my stepmother who is catholic and emigrated from Vietnam. Of course they are all very complex people, listing them off as one background or another isn’t enough to sum them up. The reason I mention all this is because these were the key cultural and religious perspectives that were being navigated by myself as a child and continue to perplex my identity as an adult.
I am very proud to be who I am today and proud of where I come from. However, I am reminded that I still carry a level of shame and guilt about my body, my sexuality, my behavior, my identity and feel judgement whether or not it is even present. It may take a lifetime to undo these ideologies. I feel empowered when I say that I am a queer Persian vegan man. This feeling of empowerment is something that I must continually reaffirm because society doesn’t know how to support these communities.
I'm a professional performing artist. Movement has taken the lead within most aspects of my career. I primarily dance for two choreographers and for myself but also do a lot of commercial work. In my own work I address social justice and environmental issues. Outside of being a dancer I am also a filmmaker, improv comedian, film editor and screenwriter.
This Time
This Time
The grief a parent feels as they helplessly watch their child suffer from a Chiari and the overwhelming shame they feel as they seek to dull the pain.
Katie Schoepflin - Music
James Koroni - Performance
Ian Bell - Film
Corey Ellis - Credits
Kelly Rogers - Producer
with support from
Chez Bushwick - Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation
LEVIATHAN
Marine animals are starving to death and being poisoned by plastic. Our civilization creates over 260 million tons of plastic waste each year, much of which ends up in the oceans.
“A rare Gervais beaked whale was found on a beach in Puerto Rico with ten pounds of twisted plastic in its stomach. The ball of plastic caused the whale to starve to death. It was a juvenile female, and was emaciated due to not eating for days.”
- care2.com
"A whale has died in southern Thailand after swallowing more than 80 plastic bags, officials said, ending an attempted rescue that failed to nurse the mammal back to health."
- japantimes.co.jp
In Leviathan, Koroni explores a life and death narrative of three marine animals affected by plastic pollution. The dancers embody these mysterious, intelligent and graceful beings. Our approach to non-human character exploration challenges the anthropocentric traditions of art and dance where animals are often reduced to two-dimensional symbols of human drama.
TOUR
Suite ThreeOhSix - NYC, 2013
Cité de la Mode et du Design - Paris, 2013
Spokane Community College - Spokane, WA 2015
Chez Bushwick - NYC, 2018
Central Park - Tulum, 2018
CHOREOGRAPHY / PERFORMANCE James Koroni & Tracey Katof
ART DIRECTION James Koroni
DEVELOPMENT Tracey Katof
COMPOSER Alec Goldfarb
COSTUME DESIGN Lui Konno
Photography by Michael Kushner
The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes
Koroni appeared in The Girl with the Alkaline Eyes is a dance theater narrative from The Chase Brock Experience, a 70-minute thriller featuring a commissioned score and live music.
Power on. A developer toils through the night building a secret project: a woman, with circuitry instead of flesh and eyes that shine electric blue. But man and machine are connected by a deep desire that sparks an irreversible chain of lust, creation, and destruction.
“Chase Brock’s eclectic résumé includes Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway, Roméo et Juliette at the Met, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He is a showman with an eye to a wide audience, and the work he has created for his own company reflects his sentimental storytelling bent.” – The New York Times
“In this seventy-minute groundbreaking dance theater piece, we explore what really could be possible in the future, a proposed infiltration of artificial intelligence. Chase Brock's choreography is incredibly specific, creating clear patterns for living that need no dialogue or further explanation. The specificity of the dance, mixed with Brock’s theatrical staging and heartfelt storytelling, sweeps you away on this journey. Combined with Eric Dietz’s moving original score, performed live by a trio helmed by Rob Berman, the complexities of emotion and machine are effortlessly mixed to follow the shocking twists this story takes.” – Theatre is Easy
“The members of The Chase Brock Experience are, indeed, attractive and also mighty good dancing actors, perfect performers for Brock’s psychological and emotional work, his most complex work as a modern dance concert choreographer. Eric Dietz wrote the intriguing, cliché-free scenario as well as composed the elegant classical style score, brilliantly choreographed, leading to a denouement that is staged with beautiful simplicity, reminiscent of the ending of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime, another work dealing with cyborgs and emotional memories.” – TheaterScene
