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Date(s) - 03/19/2015 - 03/21/2015
12:00 AM
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Danspace Project
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In 2014 six pairs of artists were asked by PLATFORM 2015 curator Claudia La Rocco to participate in choreographic exchanges. The participating artists have engaged with each other in person, via email and skype, in the studio, and during residencies around New York.
Dance Dialogues are unique evenings of live movement exchanges, choreographic studies, and playful performance explorations. These presentations will draw from the dance artists’ varied backgrounds, current performance practices, and divergent sensibilities in the spirit of curator Claudia La Rocco’s question “what would happen if?”
Each opening night will be followed by a toast with the artists!
I responded to the [Edwin Denby] prompt by offering 12 artists from [Denby’s “three nodal points of Balanchine, Cunningham and Judson Dance Theater”] (some of whom disagree with me about their relationships to these points), with the idea that they would work in six pairings, artificially created by me, a poor-man’s Denby…A lot of what sparks my enthusiasm here is curiosity. What would happen if…? I don’t have a sense of what these pairings will come up with, whether or not it will “work” or even will be meant to work, whether it will lead to new things … so those possibilities, those known unknowns or whatever, are exciting in and of themselves. –Claudia La Rocco
Please note: Dancers Kaitlyn Gilliland and Cassie Mey will perform as part of this evening. Yve Laris Cohen’s work unfolds over the course of the run. You are invited to attend all three evenings.
Emily Coates is a current performer in the work of Yvonne Rainer, a former dancer with New York City Ballet, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, and Twyla Tharp, and has directed the dance studies curriculum at Yale University since its inception in 2006.
Yve Laris Cohen is a choreographer and visual artist.
Jillian Peña is a choreographer and video/film artist.
Troy Schumacher is a corps de ballet member of New York City Ballet, and director/resident choreographer of Ballet Collective.