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Danceoff Summer 2007

Danceoff

“…that perfect cocktail of comedy and full-throttle artistry.” – Maura Nguyen Donahue, danceinsider.com

Who says contemporary dance/theater can’t be fun? Since 2003 Katie Workum and STREB Extreme Action’s Terry Dean Bartlett have been serving up downtown’s fiercest,full-contact, multi-artist cabaret-style evenings of the best and brightest in emerging and emerged dance/theater artists from NYC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Missoula, MT, and now, Montreal! -All the while, injecting the artform with a blast of wit, trash, fun, and freshness, giving the choreographers a chance to present short works in a relaxed setting as well as giving audiences a sneak peek at things to come in the dance scene, without all the angst and hours of pain often associated with “Modern Dance”.

Featuring New, Exciting Work from:
Brian Brooks Moving Company,
Nicole Wolcott (from Larry Keigwin and Co.),
Luke Miller (from Susan Marshall Co.),
Dana Michel (from Montreal),
Andrew Dinwiddie (Catch! Series At Galapagos),
Heather McArdle (from David Dorfman Dance),
Ethan Herschenfeld

Photo by Leigh Garrett

May 16 – 17, 2007
Wed and Thu at 8:00 p.m.

Le Petit Mort

Palissimo

Zustiak’s world is full of “striving, sweating bodies, but beyond what they actually do lies another, more enigmatic kind of “doing.””
-Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice

Choreographer Pavel Zustiak teams up with famed video artist Tal Yarden exposing postmortem ecstasy somewhere between a dream and a memory entitled Le Petit Mort. Raw, unsettling, emotionally charged images ask questions that are ultimately unanswerable – questions of the matters of the end. Scenes of disquieting stillness and agitation, haunting traces of life past living, will leave a residue that can’t be washed off.

Direction and Choreography by Pavel Zustiak
Created with Performers Benjamin Asriel, Gina Bashour, Ellen Cremer, Saar Harari, Marya Wethers and Pavel Zustiak
Video Design by Tal Yarden
Dramaturgy by Rachel Chavkin
Set and Costume Design by Nick Vaughn
Theatre Lobby Photo Installation and website photo by Jose Aragon

This work was commissioned by Performance Space 122 and was made possible in part by the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/New York City Department if Cultural Affairs, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Click aboveto watch Le Petit Mort teaser video

World Premiere
Resceduled from December 2006
April 12 – 15, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

genesis, no!

Genesis, no!

“Adrienne Truscott’s they will use the highways begins, and I’m instantly smitten.”
-Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice

“A fresh, engaging voice. Bring on her next eruption.”
-Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times

In this new evening-length piece, Adrienne Truscott and her dancers explore the anarchy of artifacts, the problem with primitive, and the conflation of epic timelines as they consider the possibilities and absurdities of a museum. Once their museum was curated, artifact, evidence, primitive man, overheard phrases, modern man and Kelly Clarkson collided. No matter how uninvited and unwelcome, theme and narrative, both biblical and mundane, began to assert themselves. They visited six museums and on the seventh day, they rested.

Performers include: Natalie Agee, Carmine Covelli, Neal Medlyn, David Neumann, and Adrienne Truscott. Set design, sound design and video by Adrienne Truscott and Carmine Covelli.

Photo credit: Karinne Keithley

March 22 – 25, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 5 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

RrrrrrrKILLKILLKILL

” has the potential to yield the most interesting and original developments in European Dance.”
– Mike Dixon, Dance Europe

Based in Dublin and renowned for its assertive and original style, IMDT collaborates with two maverick choreographers to create an arresting double-bill. Together with Bessie Award-winning Brooklyn-based choreographer Chris Yon, they create the anarchic and quirky RrrrrrrKILLKILLKILL . . . to infinity (MAKE IT LOOK REAL) and explore a mutual fascination with randomness and meaningful
chaos.

‘It is better to . . . ‘ is their collaboration with celebrated German choreographer Thomas Lehman. They respond to the human struggle to make things better – from better sex and better politics to being a better person or telling a better joke. Commissioned by IMDT for ESB Dublin Fringe Festival 2004, it was nominated for both “Best Production” and “Sexiest Show.”

Irish Modern Dance Theater appears through the support of Culture Ireland (www.cultureireland.gov.ie).

Each dance runs approximately 45 minutes plus 10 minute intermission.

March 15 – 18, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m.
$20, $15 Student/Senior
($10 Members)

No Where

Where do emotion and mathematics meet? No Where. Artistic Director of mvworks Megan V. Sprenger embarks on an instinctual, methodical and ultimately irreversible journey. Three dancers using raw, unadorned movement wend their way through equations of pure logic toward personal discovery.

Post-Performance talkback Sunday, Feb 25

February 22 – 25, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 p.m.
$20($10 Members)