The new dance always drives the production of a Vencl Dance Concert. The need emerges like a piece of vocabulary as part of the dance making process. Dancers and I together set the concert date because we must.
NOW we have a new dance, Intersections, and a concert, CRITICAL JUNCTURES with three performances, June 21, 22, 23 !!
We will present a 33’ excerpt of the sextet Long Before Afterward (2016); Wendy Richman, violist, and Laura Cocks, flutist will each perform live a solo by Arlene Sierra; we then will premiere the new dance for six, Intersections (35′). JOIN US!
June, 21, 22, 23, 2018.
Curtain: 8 PM
Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Arts
55 Bethune Street, (at Washington) 11th Floor
New York, NY 10014
General Admission: $20
Students, Elderly, Disabled: $15
Children 12 or under: free
Tickets at the door
Reservations on line: https://www.artful.ly/vencl-dance/store/events/15302
Contact:
212-388-9563
susan@vencldance.org
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THE TWO DANCES are connected.
I began working on a new dance in 2010 and in the winter of 2013 began working with dancers on what became the evening length quintet Long Before Afterward that premiered in New York City, February 2016.
After that concert a 15 minute section of LBA was selected for Triskelion’s Collab-Fest Showcase (November, 2016). To fit it to Triskelion’s space required reconstructing it. Insights primarily about spacial principles of weight and overlap emerged and to explore them further I continued the reconstruction process after the Showcase. In June we present a reconstruction of an LBA excerpt and also the new work that process made possible, Intersections.
THE NEWEST DANCE
Intersections presents dancers as akin to small planets following movement pathways that overlap, parallel, echo, mirror, precede, follow, each other. The dancers are brought together and carried apart by prescribed pathways. The dance also presents the dancers stripped from pathways. Nothing brings them together; yet there they are, together. But each togetherness, severed from every other, is all there is, at once first, last; then simply not there.
DANCERS
Jessica Ames, Taylor Ennen, Tomomi Imai, Morgan McMahon, Cristina Ramos; Erin Pellecchia, (Thursday and Friday), Katie Montoya, (Saturday).
MUSIC
A critical dimension of my dances is the unpredictability in the unfolding relationship between its two primary but independent components, the auditory and the visual. I hope to create a dialectical rather than a representative relationship between the music and the dance. To this end dancers and I work primarily in silence or with a metronome until three to four months before premiering a new piece.
Arlene Sierra, an acclaimed contemporary classical composer, has provided ALL of the music, recorded or performed live, for two consecutive VD productions, February 2016 and the upcoming June 2018 event. A New Yorker based in London, Sierra has composed music for the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and BBC Radio 3, among others
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The reconstruction of the LBA excerpt is danced to a recorded suite of Arlene’s music, consisting of ten works from 1:13 to 9:09 minutes long, each performed by an individual or group of musicians.
The sextet Intersections is danced to recordings of three works by Arlene, Insects in Amber, Meditation on Violence, and Four Love Songs, each performed by a small ensemble of musicians.
Two of Arlene’s solos: Cricket-Viol for singing viol and Art of Lightness for flute precede the new dance. Wendy Richman, violist,and Laura Cocks, flutist perform live with the music making itself as the sole visual element.
COLLABORATORS 2018
Lighting Designer: David Glista
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Costumer: Sarah Thea Swafford
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She has provided all of the costumes for two consecutive Vencl Dance productions, 2016 and 2018.