FINAL EXTENSION! MUST CLOSE MAR 17.
From Tony® Award-winning composer JASON ROBERT BROWN (PARADE) comes a timely new musical about two talented young journalists on increasingly diverging paths. Set in the late 1990s amid a rapidly changing media landscape we meet a fast-rising journalist, Ethan Dobson, and an assistant copy editor, Robin Martinez, at the revered magazine The Connector. In a world that values the next big sensation, Ethan’s writing prowess and ambition force him to confront how far he’ll go for the ultimate scoop and Robin to consider how far she’ll go to stop him.
With a book by JONATHAN MARC SHERMAN, THE CONNECTOR will feature Brown leading the band at each performance and reuniting with THE LAST FIVE YEARS and SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD director DAISY PRINCE.
Beginning Tuesday, March 5, Ashley Pérez Flanagan will assume the role of ROBIN MARTINEZ and Joanna Carpenter will join the performing ensemble. Hannah Cruz’s final performance will be on Sunday, March 3.
choreography by KARLA PUNO GARCIA
scenic designer BEOWULF BORITT
costume designer MÁRION TALÁN DE LA ROSA
lighting designer JEANETTE OI-SUK YEW
sound designer JON WESTON
orchestrations and arrangements JASON ROBERT BROWN
music director TOM MURRAY
music coordinator KRISTY NORTER
production stage manager ERIN GIOIA ALBRECHT
casting by PATRICK GOODWIN, CSA / THE TELSEY OFFICE
“PROFOUNDLY STRANGE & OVERWHELMINGLY BEAUTIFUL – HEATHER CHRISTIAN’S RAPTUROUS NEW MUSIC-THEATER WORK TURNS A TINY AMPHITHEATER INTO A VAST CATHEDRAL OF SOUND”. – Jesse Green, The New York Times
“A WORK THAT SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISHES A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE SACRED AND THE MUNDANE, BETWEEN THE INVISIBLE AND WHAT WE GRASP WITH OUR SENSES.” – Jose Solís, The New York Times
“EXHILARATING! BREATHTAKING! A TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCE!” – Raven Snook, Time Out New York
“GORGEOUS – A MUST SEE! – Adam Feldman, Time Out New York
“A WHITEWATER CATARACT OF SOUND & MEANING” - Helen Shaw, Vulture
“RAVISHING! THIS COLLISION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, EXPERIMENTAL THEATER, AND THEORETICAL PHYSICS GENERATES SO MUCH CREATIVE ENERGY, IT FEELS LIKE IT COULD POWER EVERY THEATER IN NEW YORK.” – Zachary Stewart, TheaterMania
In this sweeping world premiere, composer Heather Christian infuses the classical oratorio with blues, gospel, jazz and soul. Oratorio for Living Things unfolds the complex layers of what it means to be alive and our relationship to time. Staged by Obie Award-winning director Lee Sunday Evans and featuring eighteen virtuosic singers and instrumentalists, the experience surrounds and uplifts, celebrating our curiosity, our wonder, and what we’re capable of becoming when in communion with each other. The resulting music-theater event heralds Christian as an undeniable artistic force.
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Caleb Teicher is a NYC-based dancer and choreographer specializing in musically-driven dance traditions and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Teicher is known for his choreographic collaborations with diverse musical talents: he’s created full collaborations for CT&Co with world-champion beatboxer Chris Celiz and composer/pianist Conrad Tao; performed as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center; recorded percussion and sang duets for television with Ben Folds; and most recently choreographed Regina Spektor’s residency on Broadway.
http://www.calebteicher.net/
Photos by Em Watson and Scott Shaw
Sonya Tayeh is a New York City based choreographer and director. Since paving her professional career, her work has been characterized as a blend of powerful versatility and theatrical range.
Reclamation Map was a New York City Center commission with Sonya Tayeh and composer Heather Christian for the 15th annual Fall for Dance Festival 2018
Unveiling was a commission with Kaatsbaan and musically acclaimed singer Moses Somney at New York CIty Center 16th season Fall for Dance Festival 2019
Photographer: Joseph Digiovanna
The World Premiere in January 2019 of Julia Wolfe’s Fire in my mouth, a searingly vivid evocation of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, perfectly capped New York Stories: Threads of Our City, our exploration of New York’s roots as a city of immigrants.
Fire in my mouth, which the Orchestra co-commissioned, also featured The Crossing, conducted by Donald Nally, and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, directed by Francisco J. Núñez. The New York Times called the work “ambitious, heartfelt, often compelling. … There is both heady optimism and a sense of dread in Ms. Wolfe’s music. … Mr. van Zweden led a commanding account of a score that … ends with an elegiac final chorus in which the names of all 146 victims are tenderly sung to create a fabric of music and memory.” The performance earned the coveted spot in the highbrow / brilliant quadrant of New York magazine’s Approval Matrix.
Director: Annie Kauffman
Commissioned by:
The New York Philharmonic; Cal Performances at the University of California, Berkeley; the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University Musical Society at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Performed By:
New York Philharmonic; Jaap Van Zweden, conductor; The Crossing Choir, and The Young People’s Choir of NYC .
January 24-26, 2019; David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
Awards:
The winner of the 2020 Brendan Gill Prize is composer Julia Wolfe for her magnificent oratorio, Fire in my mouth, a hauntingly beautiful retelling of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Regretfully, our annual awards reception, Celebrating the City, has been postponed in response to concerns about coronavirus. We hope to announce a new date soon.
Chanel DaSilva is a multifaceted artist whose work reflects her deep connection to the transformative power of the arts. A native of Brooklyn, NY Chanel has been immersed in the field of dance for the entirety of her life
SWEPT
Dancers: Nigel Campbell and Leal Zielinska
Photographer: Scott Shaw
Joe Salvatore creates live performances and video projects from interview-based data, found media artifacts, and historical events. He is the creator and director of the Verbatim Performance Lab, whose performed investigations include The Kavanaugh Files, No(body) but nobody, The Grab 'Em Tapes, The Moore/Jones Challenge, The Lauer/Conway Flip, and Of a Certain Age (in collaboration with The Actors Fund).
Joe is a Clinical Associate Professor of Educational Theatre at NYU’s Steinhardt School where he teaches courses in ethnodrama, ethnoacting, new play development, and applied/community-engaged theatre. He has presented about his verbatim documentary theatre and performance practice at SXSW EDU, MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences & Sloan School of Management, Yale University School of Management’s Education Leadership Conference, University of Massachusetts, AERA, ICQI, ISEEN Winter Institute, and at Tallaght Community Arts in Dublin, Ireland.
Collaborations with writer/director Joe Salvatore:
1. Her Opponent 2017
In 2017, Joe collaborated with economist Maria Guadalupe (INSEAD-France) to create Her Opponent, a verbatim re-staging of excerpts of the 2016 U.S. presidential debates with gender-reversed casting. The Off Broadway production of the project was nominated for an Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Unique Theatrical Experience and has been covered by NPR, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, out.com, Fox News, MSNBC, and ABC News, among others
Photo by Richard Termine
2. Ga(Y)ze - 2015
Ga(y)ze, a collaboration with Toronto-based scenographer and installation artist Troy Hourie, tackles the world of gay male “cruising” in the early 1900s compared to contemporary times in the form of a site-specific performance installation.
In the 1920s, 14th Street just east of Union Square, known then as the Rialto, was originally the theatre district and the center of gay culture. This devised, non-verbal work uses vernacular jazz and social dance of the 1920s (Lindy Hop, Charleston), to tell the story of gay subculture within New York City past and present and features choreography by Caleb Teicher. The piece premiered as part of NYU’s Forum on Site-Specific Performance in April 2015.
3. Whitall - 2015
An interactive, site-specific theatre piece commissioned by and created in collaboration with the local community to animate the historical site of the Battle of Red Bank, October 22, 1777...
4. In Real Time - 2015
In Real Time is a set of six one-act plays that come from a series of eighteen plays written throughout 2012. A mixture of funny moments and more serious considerations, each short play is inspired by a song, a news article, or a writing prompt. Three sisters argue around a box of memories, friends make important discoveries in casual circumstances, a married couple sees each other again after a long time, and even Marilyn Monroe makes an unlikely appearance.
5. Open Heart - 2010
open heart is an ethnodrama that illuminates and explores the experiences of gay male couples living in non-monogamous or “open” relationships. Thirteen couples and a therapist/researcher were interviewed, the audio recordings were coded and transcribed, and a verbatim interview theatre script emerged offering thoughts and opinions on the following questions: How do gay couples define open relationships? How do gay men in open relationships define the word “monogamy?” Why do gay couples choose to live in open relationships? What are the advantages and disadvantages of an open relationship arrangement?
The play enjoyed a sold out run at La MaMa as part of the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival and is excerpted in Johnny Saldaña's book, Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Left Coast Press). The full performance text is available through the digital theatre library, Indie Theater Now.
http://www.joesalvatore.com
Choreographer and dancer José Limón is credited with creating one of the world’s most important and enduring dance legacies— an art form responsible for the creation, growth and support of modern dance in this country. Numerous honors have been bestowed upon both Limón and the Company he founded seventy-three years ago in 1946, including most recently the White House’s 2008 National Medal of Arts for Lifetime Achievement. José Immigrating to the United States from Mexico in 1918, Limón is considered one of Mexico’s greatest artistic exports, and a role model for Latino communities throughout the United States.
Premiered in 1956, “There is a Time” is based on the historic poem from the Bible, "Ecclesiastes" - "To Everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under the Sun." This poem, based on the cycle of universal human experiences, is rich in both ideas and words. The piece is conceived in 12 sections (with a round dance for both Prologue and Finale) and takes its inspiration from that passage in Chapter 3 of “Ecclesiastes” that starts: “To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” Each of the temporal activities mentioned by the Old Testament scribe—”a time to laugh” . . . . “a time to mourn” . . . . “a time to dance,” etc. set to score by Norman Dello Joio.
This updated version of the piece was re-imagined through blind casting for the first time in the company’s history. It was live streamed from “Bubble Residencies” at The Kaatsbaan Cultural Park on December 17, 2020 by artistic director Dante Puleio.
SORRY IN MONTREAL
October 2019
Sorry
Created by Shook Ones
Directed by Mauricio Tafur Salgado
Choreographed by Cindy Salgado and Yvon “Crazy Smooth” Soglo
Written by Alejandro Rodriguez
Multimedia Design by Yazmany Arboleda and Francis-Olivier Metras
Performed by Yvon “Crazy Smooth” Soglo, Cindy Salgado, Julio Trinidad, James Dean Palmer, Kyle Vincent Terry, Ryan Broussard
Sound Design by Will Stone
Set and Lighting Design by Paul Hudson
Stage Managed by Emlyn VanBruinswaardt
In October of 2019, Sorry will be remounted for the 4th time! This time in Montreal at CCOV (Centre de Creation O Vertigo). The show will happen on October 16th and 17th.
Sorry is a multimedia theatrical experience that utilizes dance, spoken word and projection to tell a story about cultures colliding that’s never been more relevant or necessary than today. Sorry is an immersive exploration of contemporary interracial partnerships, narrated and annotated by the secret Poet Laureate of the A train.
For more information, check out this link:
https://ccov.org/en/sorry-crazy-smooth/
The Juilliard Dance Ensemble (2006-2016)
Photographers:
Michelle Talan, Norbert de la Cruz, Nir Arieli, Rosalie O'Conner and Victoria Bek
Pilobolus is a rebellious dance company. Since 1971, Pilobolus has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. They continue to bring this tradition to global audiences through their post-disciplinary collaborations with some of the greatest influencers, thinkers, and creators in the world.
Piece: Warp and Weft
Choreographed: Renee Jaworski
Dancers: Heather Favretto, Krystal Butler and Casey Howes
Photographer: Brigid Pierce
https://pilobolus.org/company
As a choreographer, Bryan is the recipient of the First Place and Audience Choice awards for his work 'Without Notice' at the Sixth Copenhagen International Choreography Competition, nominated for the Rolex mentor and protégé award, a 2017 winner of the Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award and the recipient of the 2018-19 Jacobs Pillow Fellowship Award. Bryan has choreographed for the Juilliard School, Netherlands Dance Theater 2, Hessisches Staatsballet (Germany), The Scottish Ballet, Tanz Lucerne Theater, Ballet Theater Basel, The Paul Taylor Company, Charlotte Ballet, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, and the Gibney Company.
JACOB’S PILLOW
A Rather lovely thing
Dancers: Spencer Theberg, Ana Maria Lucaciu, and Jermaine Spivey
Photographer: Christopher Duggan
GIBNEY
A Thousand Million Seconds
Dancers: Nigel Campbell, Amy Miller, Zui Gomez, Katie Lake, William … Julia …
Photographer: Scott Shaw
JUILLIARD SCHOOL
Photographer Rosalie O’Conner
CHARLOTTE BALLET
When Breath Becomes Air
Photographer
In the Press…
“Arias’s approach is similar to the magic mixture in Wes Anderson’s films: The silliness is graced by sincerity, and the poignancy glows with humanity.” -Janine Parker of The Boston Globe. Read the full review.
Al Blackstone is an Emmy-nominated director, choreographer, and educator. His passion for bringing people together to experience something meaningful drives him to make dances, tell stories, and encourage joyful connection. Born in New Jersey and raised in a dance studio, he has called New York City home for more than a decade. In that time he has created emotional work for the stage and screen, thrown dance parties for charity, and introduced hundreds of people to one another.
ANNA was a piece commissioned by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society in honor of Agnes de Mille. Originally performed on March 25th, 2019 at the George Abbott Awards 60th Anniversary Gala, ANNA tells the story of a quiet young lady that is searching for a way to express herself. The piece featured Bri Ki, Danielle Kelsey, Mary Page Nance, and Ricky Ubeda with costumes by Marion Talan.
Jerome Robbins’ Noh-inspired dance piece follows a male figure (New York City Ballet principal dancer Joaquin De Luz, who retires this fall) through scenes from his youth, each moment of his journey conveyed in studied, deliberate articulations. Framed by lunar and seasonal transitions, this rarely performed work—beautifully reimagined for BAM’s Fishman Space stage by director-choreographer Luca Veggetti—is a rumination on experience and memory, named for the beloved Long Island town. Featuring composer Teiji Ito’s score for six musicians—prominently featuring the shakuhachi, the 13th-century flute played by Buddhist priests—and dancers from Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College, SUNY, Watermill is a study of time that still quietly resonates nearly a half-century after it was first staged.
AntonioBrownDance was founded in 2013, and is composed of an incredibly talented group of performing artists from various cultural and training backgrounds. Connected together with a provocative movement vocabulary and emphasis on sound, the works of the company blend common human behavior with elements of social and political topics. Producing works that allow for the growing socio-political international climate to become conversation within our versatile communities.
BALLET X
Norbert De La Cruz III’s premiere Talsikan was created to music composed especially for it by Ben Juodvalkis
Dancers:
Edgar Anido, Chloe Felesina, Francesca Forcella , Gary W. Jeter II, Zachary Kapeluck, Skyler Lubin, Daniel Mayo, Caili Quan, Richard Villaverde and Andrea Yorita
Photographers: Alexander Iziliaev and Bill Herbert
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
Fold By Fold
Dancers: Craig Black, Katherine Bolanos, Sadie Brown, Samantha Klanac Campanile, Emily Proctor, Seia Rassenti, Joseph Watson, Paul Busch and Peter Anthony Franc
Photographer: Rosalie O'Connor
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's production of Fold by Fold (2013) was made possible through the generosity of Kelli and Allen Questrom with additional support from the Wolf Trap Foundation and The Princess Grace Foundation-USA.
Reset
Choreographers: Troy Ogilvie
http://troyogilvie.squarespace.com
Photographer: Jubal Battisti
Director, Choreographer, Dancer: Zack Winokur,
Photographer: Micheal Hart
Images from Balloon
Trio La Dame A La Licorne
Contact Sport
Choreographer Larry Keigwin
Photographer:
Matthew Murphy of Murphy Made Photography.
Photographer: Michael hart
Match Box Dances is a short, four-part dancefilm shot on the streets, sidewalks and loading docks of DUMBO, one of New York’s most quickly changing neighborhoods. The product of an inter-disciplinary collaboration, Match Box Dances is a snapshot of ongoing investigations of portraiture in dance on camera. The project explores the intersection of public, private and personal gestures, while employing a creative and technical regard to immediacy similar to that of an instant Polaroid: The content, creation and production arise necessarily ‘of-the-moment’, and produce an artifact that functions as both document and art object.
Please visit www.matchboxdances.com to learn more.
Premiered at the Tangente Festival Montreal, QC October 2009
Firemakers is a collaborative dance that uses objects, projections, and humor to explore self-invention and self-imposed obstacles.
Choreography: Adam H Weinert
Dancers: Logan Frances Kruger, Roarke Menzies, Michelle Mola, Zack Winoker Sound Design: Jakub Ciupinski
Costume Design: Márion Talan
Set Design: Meagan Grimley
Animation: Jennifer Myers
Lighting Design: Anila Mazhari, Michealjon Slinger, Evan Teitlebaum
GLACIER
Choreographer: Liz Gerring
Dancers:
Adele Nickel
Jessica Weiss
Claire Westby
Brandon Collwes
Brandin Steffensen
Tony Neidenbach
Jake Szczypek
Benjamin Asriel
Photographer: Julieta Cervantes
glacier is an evening length choreographic work for eight dancers based on composer Michael J. Schumacher's 2007-2012 work Glacier. Originally commissioned and premiered by Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ) it has been presented at The Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and Bryn Mawr University.
Project RUIN
October 2012 at Center for Performance Research
Dancers:
Aaron Carr
Lucie Baker
Carlye Eckert
Allysen Hooks
Timothy Ward.
Photographer: Hope Davis
Masks by Alyssa Eckert: www.thebrightmerchant.bigcartel.com
Choreographer: Billy Bell
Photographer:
The following works are interactive projects that consist of collaborating with artists of different disciplines. These include multi media artists, animators, sound and music designers, actors, acrobats, athletes, and of course a live audience.
1. As above, So below
A video mapping projection installation, conceived by a group of six artists, John Ensor Parker, Farkas Fulop, Johnny Moreno, Simon Anaya, Richard Jochum, & Ryan Uzilevsky.
The artists developed a multi-perspective 3D installation on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage in Brooklyn.
Creation of the piece incorporates green screen film shoots, Kinect 3D scanning, stop-motion animation, computer modeling and a host of visual effect programs.
2. Play/Date
An immersive and voyeuristic theatrical experience set throughout the three levels of Fat Baby, a nightclub and lounge on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. During the performance, the lines between reality and fiction are blurred, as guests move through the bar, lounge and mezzanine – following scenes as they move or constructing their own adventure.
3. ANTECHAMBER
3. Ga(y)ze, a collaboration with Toronto-based scenographer and installation artist Troy Hourie and Director Joe Salvatore, tackles the world of gay male “cruising” in the early 1900s compared to contemporary times in the form of a site-specific performance installation.
In the 1920s, 14th Street just east of Union Square, known then as the Rialto, was originally the theatre district and the center of gay culture. This devised, non-verbal work uses vernacular jazz and social dance of the 1920s (Lindy Hop, Charleston), to tell the story of gay subculture within New York City past and present and features choreography by Caleb Teicher. The piece premiered as part of NYU’s Forum on Site-Specific Performance in April 2015.
Michelle Talán Photographer
talanfoto@gmail.com
Talan Foto
www.talanfoto.com/