"One-Shot" and infinite possibilities

One-Shot--"a web-based, solo performance relay" curated by Sarah Maxfield and hosted by Gibney Dance Center

Featured performers: Megan Sprenger, David Thomson and Aretha Aoki

Check it out on Vimeo, and join the conversation!

DTW looks forward

Dance Theater Workshop's 2009-2010 season will present a diverse and breathtaking spectrum of projects sure to excite and challenge audiences. Today, artistic director Carla Peterson announced her roster of participating artists, including Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Raimund Hoghe, Neal Medlyn, Tere O'Connor, Urban Bush Women, Kimberly Bartosik/daela, Bruno Beltrão/Grupo de Rua, koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO, Sahar Javedani, Yasuko Yokoshi, Faye Driscoll, Nora Chipaumire, Pat Graney Company and many others.

With reduced ticket prices, a new fee-free ticketing policy and expanded socializing/education initiatives that include a pioneering Dance Docent program, DTW hopes to make some of the world's most innovative dance enticing and accessible to far more people. Hooray!

From September 8, 2009 through June 2010, the savvy dance fan might find him- or herself tempted to set up household at DTW.

Connect with this re-energized, forward-moving DTW at its website and blog and on Twitter.

Sprenger rocks 'em

Here's a quick recommendation: Megan V. Sprenger/mvworks, concluding the run of ...within us this week at Performance Space 122. This hour-long work's benign beginning--why, it could be a downtown cocktail party without the cocktails!--swiftly gives way to controlled chaos within a tight environment that the troupe has obviously come to know very well. They have to know it--and one another--quite well, for there's risk for themselves as well as for us, the audience, observing from the very unsafe space they inhabit. Forget the fourth wall; this dance rocks you hard, sometimes comforts you with a touch, never lets you off the hook. You look but rarely from the privilege and luxury of distance. It sent a chill up my spine. I'm still rattled by it. I never come right home and sit down to write about a piece, but here I am, right now, writing to you.

Sprenger's valiant performers are Tara O'Con, Maria Parshina, Alli Ruszkowski and Richert Schnorr. Her team, cooking up this visceral/emotional experience, includes Joe Levasseur (lighting), Jason Sebastian (sound design and composition) and Brad Kisicki (set design).

...within us continues with 7:30pm performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and a 5:30pm performance on Sunday.

Information and ticketing

Listen to my May 11th interview with Sprenger for Body and Soul podcast.

Megan V. Sprenger: Body and Soul podcast

Choreographer Megan V. Sprenger joins me to talk about ...within us, her new, evening-length production at PS 122, May 17-24 (Tues-Sat at 7:30pm; Sun at 5:30pm).

Company information at Megan V. Sprenger/mvworks

Further information at Performance Space 122 -- or 212-352-3101

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