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L-r: Heather Lang, Jennifer Lafferty,
Marilyn Maywald and Christiana Axelsen
in Thomas Dunn's hazy sunlight in
New Work for the Desert
(photo by Cherylynn Tsushima) |
In
New Work for the Desert, dancemaker
Beth Gill and her collaborators--composer
Jon Moniaci and lighting and set designer,
Thomas Dunn--translate the desert regions of the American Southwest to the spare, artificial confines of
New York Live Arts's stage.
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| (photo by Cherylynn Tsushima) |
Live imagery and motion (or lack of same) and sound (or lack of same) and gradiations of light mimic a psychic and somatic experience of being there. Pre-dawn silhouettes. Clean, empty space and time stretching out in austere silence. Sound just below conscious awareness and then arriving in hums, reverberations, chimes. Sun-baked noon. Bodies introducing slender lines, linear shapes, constructing balance, holding stillness, drifting in and out of sight, twisting as if to seek out signals from afar.
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Kayvon Pourazar and Christiana Axelsen
(photos by Cherylynn Tsushima) |
with dancing by
Christiana Axelsen,
Jennifer Lafferty,
Heather Lang,
Marilyn Maywald,
Kayvon Pourazar,
Stuart Singer
Now through Saturday, each evening at 7:30pm. For ticket information, click
here.
Tonight's show will be followed by a conversation, "Under the Influence of Light," with Beth Gill and
John Jasperse.
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues), Manhattan
(
map/directions)
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