Hailed as an artist working ‘at the height of her powers’ (New York Times), and recently nominated for a 2012 New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for Twin Pines, Keely Garfield now sheds her recent over-the-top works, adopting a plainer approach, and a pared-down inventory. Embracing the optimism of empty space Garfield presents scenes polished to reveal their essential crystalline nature, and redefines herself for the time being.

Like its title, this dance is almost a palindrome, almost the same forwards and backwards. But it does in fact change and develop. It invites audiences to look more closely, for shifts of form that beget shifts of meaning.

Milka Djordjevich’s Kinetic Makeover is a dance solo giving power and autonomy to one body. This body is attempting to produce multiple images, ideas and content so that the viewer is not just watching a dance, but witnessing multiple transformations. Djordjevich is attempting to amplify the fact that the body is always changing. The work is a reimagining of the body and its potential, what it represents and how it exists.

In this work, Sperber continues to deepen her exploration of rigorous, intricate, gradually shifting patterns to get at a deeper energetic layer of expression. The dancers traverse the length with direct speed and momentum rushing closely by the audience lining the space tightly on either side - as though in a train with the landscape rushing past out the window.

In 35 ½, three performers grapple with opposites, which aren’t really opposites. They play with dancing + thinking, writing + reading, analyzing + immersing, performing + being. They are organized by structure, uncreativity, pleasure, modesty, excess, and focus. Life enters in.

I’m building a shrine. is dedicated to someone who will never see it. It is a dance of devotion, loss, penance, and destruction. It is a molting snake...a glittery shrine built to be burned to the ground.

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