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PROGRAM A: Thursday/Friday/Saturday at 7 PM; Sunday at 2 PM
KAREN BERNARD
"1993-1996 It Could Have Been Different," excerpts from four seminal Bernard works created between 1993 and 1996, performed by Donna Costello, Mersiha Mesihovic, Ryan Migge, Lisa Parra, and Stacy Lynn Smith. Bernard has unflinchingy used her own aging body for decades as a vehicle to alter the definitions of dance and dancer. In the early 1990s, her work shifted significantly, with a ripple effect on performance art still perceptible today.
Karen Bernard is a creator of solo dance and interdisciplinary performance and Director of New Dance Alliance. She performs, teaches, lectures, serves on advisory panels and has been awarded numerous residencies across the U.S., Canada and Europe. This cross-pollination strengthens an ongoing social dialogue among international artists. That commitment is fully brought to life in New Dance Alliance's Performance Mix Festivals.
MARSI BURNS and ALICE TEIRSTEIN
"Comin or Goin" finds two seasoned, mature dancers taking different looks, both comedic and sober, in hindsight and in-the-moment, with images of searching, losing and maintaining balance, exploring lost and found, and finding humor in confusion. The whimsical work has live text and recorded music by Bohuslav Martinu and David Denmitz. Noted Marcy Friedman, "(the artists') years of experience have deepened their powers." (Art Historian)
Marsi Burns most recently was commissioned by Dancing in the Streets to create a site-specific work for a Bronx park. She has performed as a solo dance artist in all variety of venues, including theaters, museums, galleries, parks, and on the street, collaborating with musicians, vocalists, visual and performing artists. Marci is also a member of Margie Beals Improvisation Dance Group.
Bessie Award winner Alice Teirstein is Founding Director of Young Dancemakers Company, which presents original choreography by NYC teens in free concerts city-wide. She has worked with choreographers Stephen Koplowitz, Gus Solomons jr, Jody Oberfelder, Claire Porter, Marta Renzi and others, and is well known for her critically and audience acclaimed duets with Stuart Hodes. Alice designed and led the dance program at the Fieldston School and is a Teaching Arts for Dance Theater of Harlem's Dancing Through Barriers program.
RACHEL COHEN/RACOCO
"New Developments" is the premiere of a new tactile interaction of performers and paper, in a continued collaboration between quixotic dance-theater company Rachel Cohen Racoco and visual artist Stephanie Beck, performed to live music by composer/guitarist Lynn Wright. The fluid relationships between the paper constructions and the performers link architecture and the body, order and absurdity, and evolution and real estate.
Rachel Cohen, founder of Racoco Productions in 2003, is a graduate of Harvard U, where she studied dance and choreography with Claire Millardi. She also trained with Mary Anthony, Bertram Ross, and Carolyn Lord; mask and clown with Rafael Bianciotto and Mario Gonzales; and Action Theater with Ruth Zaporah and Cassie Terman. Cohen was a 2015 artist in the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs' Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide.
DEIRDRE TOWERS
World Premiere of "Cross Currents," choreographed by Towers and danced by Elisabet Torras Aguilera, a native of Barcelona and dancer with Noche Flamenca, and Olsi Gjeci, an Albanian native currently a member of Trisha Brown Dance Company. Live music by composer/guitarist Paul Jared Newman and bassist Alexis Cuadrado. Two people of differing sensibilities and a shared past have a chance encounter. Both the music and choreography are inspired by the frequency that cultures collide in a city like New York, and by the freedom that individuals assume to swim at their own pace through the cross currents.
Dancer/writer/filmmaker Deirdre Towers had performed at various NYC venues, choreographed for Syracuse Symphony and NY Lyric Opera, and taught flamenco history for Maria Benitez' Institute in New Mexico. As Artistic Director of Dance Films Association, she produced the international touring Dance on Camera Festival (1994-2012), co-produced by the Film Society of Lincoln Center.
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LocationWest End Theater (View)
263 West 86th Street, 2nd Floor
New, NY 10024
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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