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BODYTRAFFIC in Albuquerque

Keshet Center for the Arts presents BODYTRAFFIC in "And at midnight, the green bride floated through the village square" by Barak Marshall; "Untitled" a new work by Victor Quijada and "o2Joy" by Richard Siegal, Founder and Artistic Director of The Bakery Paris Berlin.

BODYTRAFFIC is helping establish Los Angeles as a major center for contemporary dance. Founded in 2007 by Lillian Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett, BODYTRAFFIC has surged to the forefront of the concert dance world. Named "the company of the future" by The Joyce Theater Foundation, Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch in 2013 and Best of Culture by the Los Angeles Times, the young company is already internationally recognized for their high quality of work.

Choreographer Barak Marshall explains, "And at midnight, the green bride floated through the village square... is based in part on a true story about a family of eight sisters and one brother who were neighbors of my mother's family in Aden, Yemen. The house they lived in became known as "The Burning House" because of the fighting, screaming and cursing that was heard from it at all hours of the day and night. It is a morality tale filled with dark humor that tells the story of how jealousy doomed all nine of the family's children to a life filled with rage, unhappiness, and loneliness. The soundtrack is comprised primarily of Jewish love songs and hymns from the Yiddish, Ladino and Yemenite traditions."

Untitled was commissioned through a National Dance Project production grant. Victor Quijada's work is known for eloquently re-imagining, de-constructing, applying choreographic principles to hip-hop ideology, and examining humanity through a unique fusion of aesthetics.

An exuberant homage to American jazz standards, set to music by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, and The Oscar Peterson Trio, o2Joy is, as its title suggests, an expression of sheer joy through music and movement.