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Battery Dance Festival 2015 Closing Performance and Reception
Join us Friday, August 21 from 6:00pm to 8:30pm at Pace University's Schimmel Center for the closing performances of the Battery Dance Festival - formerly known as the Downtown Dance Festival. The 2015 Battery Dance Festival concludes August 21 with a three-part program in the 670-seat Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, Battery Dance Company's first home theater in the late 1970s and early '80s. Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt will present the 60-minute work "Praeambulum". Battery Dance Company will present new work by Tadej Brdnik. Shanmugha Sundaram, widely touted as one of India's leading male dancers, will present a solo based on the story of Parvati and the elephant-headed God Ganesha, performed in the Bharata Natyam style.
Admission to the performance is free and tickets to the reception following the performance can be purchased for an additional price.
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Performances:
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt (Oslo, Norway)
"Praeambulum". Ingun Bjørnsgaard, one of Norway's leading choreographers, established Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt (IBP) in 1992. Characterized by courage, breadth of theme, and elegance, Bjørnsgaard's work tackles the social, erotic and political dynamics between the sexes. Ms. Bjørnsgaard has been a guest choreographer at institutions such as the Norwegian National Ballet and the Royal Swedish Ballet in Stockholm. She is the only choreographer to have received the Norwegian Critics' Association Award twicefor Sleeping Beauty (1995) and Largo (2010). The Company is bringing to Festival audiences its 2013 work Praeambulum (which means prelude, introduction, or preparation). In both music and rhetoric, a Praeambulum is a virtuosic and artful opening that is meant to heighten our expectations of what is to come. The Company will perform excerpts at Wagner Park on August 19 and the full-length production on August 21 at Schimmel Center for the Arts.
Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt's Festival performances are sponsored in part by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General of Norway in New York, the American-Scandinavian Foundation through the Andrew E. and G. Norman Wigeland Fund, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway and Performing Arts Hub Norway.
Shanmugha Sundaram (Chennai, India) New York Debut
Shanmugha Sundaram, senior disciple of the late K.J Sarasa and one of India's most celebrated male dancers, will perform a solo in the Bharata Natyam style. In this Varnum, the most complex element in a traditional Bharata Natyam recital, he will take on multiple characters in portraying three episodes from the life of Lord Ganesha. Originally choreographed by K.J Sarasa based on a traditional story and musical composition, this
world premiere is a new iteration of the piece, re-staged by Shanmugha for the Festival.
Battery Dance Company
New Work by Tadej Brdnik. Battery Dance Company will present the first view of a new work choreographed by Tadej Brdnik, a former Principal with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Tadej began his career in Slovenia and joined Martha Graham in 1996. He has danced and taught with Battery Dance Company since 1998, and has performed
with Robert Wilson, David Gordon and Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project, among others. He is a recipient of The Benetton Dance Award and the Eugene Loring Award.
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LocationPace University's Schimmel Center for the Arts (View)
3 Spruce St
New York, NY 10038
United States
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