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NY Times #speakingindance

6/14/2018

 

#SpeakingInDance | “I feel regal,” said the dancer Jordan D. Lloyd, of performing on the marble staircase at the Winter Garden with @meiyamanaka, @ambika.raina and Doug LeCours (@trashimagery). “There’s a power in occupying this closed-off space and knowing that it’s so large and expensive and shiny and bright.” In “Of Granite and Glass,” performed June 15-17 at the @lmcc_nyc River to River Festival 2018, the choreographer @catherinegalasso uses Cesar Pelli's staircase as a singular stage. “I would never do a show in a mall,” Catherine said. “But I had my heart set on playing with depth.” And it works: The setting of @brookfieldplny, with its shops and tourists, has expanded her imagination: “How do we play with these quieter, more intimate moments” when the viewer is “at a distance?” she asked. “And then find movement that can speak to the architecture?” One way is to soften and fold the body into the surface. The work is loosely inspired by Boccaccio’s 14th-century “The Decameron,” in which 10 people retreat to a villa to escape the plague. “How do we deal with the trauma in the world right now?” Catherine said to the @nytimes writer @giadk. “This is our way of commenting on it without commenting on it directly.” @emonhassan made this video for #SpeakingInDance, our weekly series exploring the world of #dance. #R2R18

A post shared by The New York Times (@nytimes) on Jun 13, 2018 at 5:44am PDT

Thanks Gia Kourlas and Emon Hassan!
Shout-out to collaborators Dave Cerf for music and Karen Boyer for costumes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/13/arts/dance/catherine-galasso-speaking-in-dance.html

Of Granite and Glass Premieres June 15-17, 2018

6/4/2018

 
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June 15-17, 2018
Friday and Saturday at 7pm, Sunday at 5pm
Brookfield Place Winter Garden, 230 Vesey Street

FREE

Featuring: Doug LeCours, Jordan D. Lloyd, Ambika Raina, Mei Yamanaka

Music: Dave Cerf
Costume Design: Karen Boyer
Sound Supervisor: Sam Crawford
Creative Producer: Tara Sheena
Stage Management: Kirsten Schnittker

With appearances by: Kate Athol, Abram Blau, John Gutierrez, Ryan Hudzik, Kayla Juntilla, Beckett Melville, Tyaela Nieves, Oliver Prose, Emery Schaffer

In a special performance for the 2018 River to River Festival, Of Granite and Glass is part of choreographer Catherine Galasso’s 10-part series, Of Iron and Diamonds, based on Boccaccio’s 14th century Decameron. The performance will combine her signature cinematic tableaux, whimsical nonlinear narratives, and charismatic performers to engage in a choreographic dialogue with the architecture and atmosphere of Brookfield Place, transforming the Winter Garden's grand marble staircase into a dramatic backdrop for a dance evoking failed spring breaks, ecstatic dance rituals, and sacred StairMaster routines. Presented by Arts Brookfield. 

On Granite and Glass is co-commissioned by Arts Brookfield and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and is presented as part of the 2018 River To River Festival.
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