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Time Lapse Dance: Bringing the Arctic Home

Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium JCC in Manhattan
New York City, NY

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Time Lapse Dance: Bringing the Arctic Home

Time Lapse Dance brings the Arctic home June 20-21 with a program inspired by choreographer Jody Sperling's incredible experience participating in 7-week polar science mission, as choreographer-in-residence aboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker.

THE PROGRAM
"Ice Cycle": Expresses the dynamism and fragility of the Arctic icescape (premiere)
"Arctic Memory": Conjures up the vast expanses of the Arctic and exposes its vulnerability
"Turbulence": Visualizes patterns of air disturbance into kinetic patterns

SATURDAY, JUNE 20 @ 9pm
+ pre-performance panel, 8-8:45pm with DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller) and Gavin Schmidt (NASA)

SUNDAY, JUNE 21@ 2pm
+ free post-show kids movement workshop

SUNDAY, JUNE 21@ 7pm
+ pre-performance screening of "Place with No Daw," by Jessica Houston and Bruno Tremblay
+ post-show talkback featuring the artists in conversation with the filmmakers and Margie Turrin (Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory)

CREDITS
Choreography: Jody Sperling | Composers: Matthew Burtner & Quentin Chiappetta
Dancers: Jenny Campbell, Sarah Chien, Maya Orchin, Krissy Tate & Chriselle Tidrick
Lighting: David Ferri | Projection Designer: Matthew Haber
Costume Designer: Mary Jo Mecca | Textile Artist: Gina Nagy Burns

NOTE:
Jody Sperling was invited by Robert Pickart, Senior Scientist of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to participate in a polar science mission to the Chukchi Sea in 2014. This program draws from her experience dancing on the melting polar ice sheet.

FUNDING
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the city council & The Fund for Creative Communities, supported by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.