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Getting to Know The Ambient Cowboy: Ivy Baldwin

Looking Out From a Glass House

"This piece feels so different to me. For many years I have been interested in what could be considered more dance-theater. My work has had a lot of theatrical elements –such as language and song. It’s been very dramatic, and sometimes very violent.  This work is far more rooted in the body and in movement without any extra elements placed on it, and that is really exciting to me." Ivy Baldwin
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RIOULT in Season

This season, RIOULT's audiences will be treated to a world premiere collaboration, The Violet Hour, with  choreography by Rioult, set to music composed by Grammy Award- winning artist, Joan Tower. Tower who is regarded as one of the most important American composers living today, famously created the Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, a 1990's response to Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man of 1942. Their, as yet untitled, work is inspired by T.S.
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Of Paradox and Principles

zoe | juniper "A Crack in Everything" at New York Live Arts

A Crack in Everything, investigates the slashes, hyphens, and all other manner of divide/chasm-bridge in the realm of space|time and art|performance. Their intrepid journey into the void of experience and its representation literally brings lightning flashes of clarity to whatever exists on either side of any divide. ... read more


 

Taking Class

The Dance Enthusiast Gets Some ClassClassClass

Dworman and Atwell have encouraged this year’s teachers to move in new directions with their classes and to cultivate in their work a response to the question, “'If you could do anything what would it be?” Both coordinators emphasize, however, that class is not only about the teacher. The frameworkof CCC is highly reliant on the student’s point of view: students take class on their own terms and mold their experience for what they need it to be at that moment. ... read more


 

New York City Welcomes Bloom! Dance Collective In "CITY"

A New York City Premiere -An American Debut

"CITY draws on the diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds of its members and builds a thought-provoking collaborative performance piece. Conceived as a “political pamphlet entwined with movement,” the piece grapples with the dynamics of power, fear, manipulation, and faith, and the consequences of social conformity all while wittily playing with conventions of individual versus group behavior." ... read more