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Our Features The Essential Iconoclast-Elizabeth StrebBehind The Scenes with Streb and CompanyThe Dance Enthusiast's Cory Nakasue finds the STREB company and their fearless leader preparing for their biggest show yet, Kiss The Air at the Park Avenue Armory. It opens this Wednesday, December 14th. Says Streb, “I want people to watch us move and think, ‘that doesn’t follow the rules I’ve been taught operate on earth…”  Behind The Scenes with Anneke Hansen (in rehearsal for her newest project youandyouandyou)Video Windows Into The ProcessMaking 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. ... read more  Behind The Scenes Video with Erin Cairns Cella at The Women In Motion Estrogenius FestivalVideo Windows into the Process of "Ice and Uncertainty"Ice and Uncertainty by Erin Cairns Cella finds inspiration in the landscape and climactic changes of Antarctica, and questions how one body or mass in space can affect another. Utilizing situation based improvisational methods, image based movement, and set choreography, the piece requires a heightened sense of performance, as the structure of the piece is dependent upon what the dancer/dancers choose to do first. ... read more  Behind The Scenes with Marya Wethers & Daria Fain and Samita SinhaChristine Jowers in rehearsal with Marya Wethers & Daria Fain with VideoTiny Video Windows Into The Process of Dance Creation  A Day with Isadora, or " Why don't you spend some time with your mother over the long wkend?"ahem that would be Isadora Duncan, aka The Mother of Modern Dance...She was one of the first people to get the world to take dance (free barefoot dance) seriously ( along with art, music and poetry)...even wrote a Manifesto about it! Let's get reacquainted... shall we?A Day in The Life of The Isadora Duncan Dance Company
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