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What I Learned This Week about The Color of Music -November 15, 2011

What I Learned This Week about The Color of Music -November 15, 2011
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Published on November 15, 2011

A Video Window Into The Process of Dance

 The Color of Music with Anneke Hansen and Nathan Koci

in rehearsal preparing for the opening of youyouandyou...

video by Christine Jowers for The Dance Enthusiast


Making use of University Settlement’s top-floor gymnasium youandyouandyou, a new dance choreographed and performed by Anneke Hansen, explores a movement vocabulary of effort and delicacy. Heavily rooted in the somatic experience of the dancers, Hansen’s choreography seeks to create a sympathetic  kinesthetic response in the audience. As individuals working as part of a collective “we,” the dancers seek the emotional resonance of their moving bodies, stretching their minds with movement and pushing the edges of the space. Hansen first conceived the piece when she viewed University Settlement’s gymnasium (with its creaky wooden floor and original detailing) for the first time in 2008. The unique venue gives Hansen the opportunity to work with dance in an environment where it doesn’t usually exist and allows her to explore how art-making is isolated (geographically and socially) from everyday life.


 

 

 


Anneke Hansen Dance and

 

 

 

The Performance Project @ University Settlement present
 
youandyouandyou
 
Wednesday through Saturday, November 16-19, 2011
November 16-17 @ 8:00pm
November 18-19 @ 7:00pm & 9:00pm (TWO SHOWINGS)
 
University Settlement’s Top-Floor Gymnasium
184 Eldridge Street at Rivington Street, Lower East Side, NYC
Closest Subways: F, J, M, Z trains to Delancey-Essex Street / F train to 2nd Avenue
 
Tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets
2 General Admission and 8 Dancers/Students
 

 


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