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A shared evening of choreography by Ori Flomin and Megan Williams. More info and tickets here!
On a darkened stage, two dancers collide in a burst of light, music, and color—and from this encounter, an enchanting world is born. Hailed as Mark Morris’s undisputed masterwork since its US premiere here at BAM in 1990, L’Allegro conjures with radiant simplicity a mythic landscape of graces, gods, and lovers. Set to Handel’s soaring interpretation of Milton’s Arcadian poetry, Morris’s choreography draws deep from Greek and Roman motifs while remaining, somehow, timeless. With sopranos Yulia Van Doren and Sarah Brailey and tenor Brian Giebler.
Returning home to Brooklyn for the first time in more than a decade, L’Allegro promises an ebullient evening of quintessential Mark Morris. Ancient yet youthful, Baroque yet effortlessly natural, it’s an intricate feast for the senses; a meditation on innocence and experience to warm the spirit after so many months of still bodies and darkened stages.
A new evening length dance performance that responds to collective and personal loss and isolation and draws attention to the human body’s potential for persistence, resistance, and power. ‘lectric Eye uses the connection between music and movement to push physical and sonic limits, both as a collective and as individuals.
Choreography by Joanna Kotze in collaboration with the performers. Featuring dancers Wendell Gray II, Molly Heller, Symara Johnson, and Joanna Kotze with Ani Javian, Ariel Lembeck, Jordan Lloyd, Jennifer Nugent, Devin Oshiro, Ambika Raina, Ariana Speight, Marion Spencer, and Hsiao-jou Tang. Understudy: Mary Lyn Graves. Music composed and performed live by Ryan Seaton. Lighting by Kathy Kaufmann. Costumes by Christian Joy.
Thursday, February 10 includes a screening of Nothing’s changed except for everything, a short film by Joanna Kotze, cinematographer Chris Cameron, and composer/musician Ryan Seaton, immediately following the performance of ‘lectric Eye.
Live Oscillations emerged from a solo project by Caroline Davis that uses the oscillatory patterns of neurons as a jumping off point for rhythmically complex compositions for the saxophone. Expanding the project to include harpist Lucia Stavros, choreographer/dancer Mary Lyn Graves, and dancers Chelsea Hecht and Isabel Umali, Live Oscillations brings these rich compositions to life with sound, movement and community.
BIG BEATS is a 15-minute, free, outdoor dance performance, choreographed by Joanna Kotze, featuring 20 New York-based professional dancers––Bria Bacon, Mary Lyn Graves, Wendell Gray II, Ani Javian, Symara Johnson, Joanna Kotze, Ariel Lembeck, Jordan Lloyd, Jennifer Nugent, Devin Oshiro, Pamela Pietro, Ambika Raina, Paul Singh, Ariana Speight, Stacy Spence, Marion Spencer, Hsiao-jou Tang, Nattie Trogdon, Claire Westby, and Rochelle Wilbun––and accompanied by an original sound score played live by composer/musician Ryan Seaton.
Danced to a driving sonic rhythm, BIG BEATS is the force of 20 performers doing complex, synchronized movement in a public space. Performed twice in the same location on one day, this complicated, rigorous dance can be viewed from anywhere. It is an invitation to stop and watch a group of people working together, dancing together, being together. It is also a chance to let the beat get into your own body, joining us.
