The purpose of Vencl Dance is to make and produce my dances. I hope to give to my dancers and audiences what making each dance gives to me, a revelation that matters.
It is the new dance that drives the production of a Vencl Dance Concert. The need emerges like a piece of vocabulary as part of the dance making process.
NOW we have a new dance, Intersections, and a concert, CRITICAL JUNCTURES with three performances, June 21, 22, 23 !!
Curtain: 8 PM
Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Arts 55 Bethune Street, (at Washington) 11th Floor New York, NY 10014
General Admission: $20 Students, Elderly, Disabled: $15 Children 12 or under: free
Tickets at the door Reservations on line at Contact: 212-388-9563 or susan@vencldance.org
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PROGRAM Typically a Vencl Dance Concert includes new work, old work, guest artist performing live.
Critical Junctures 2018 I. Long Before Afterward: sextet, excerpt reconstructed, 33’ II. Intermission: 15’ III.Two solos, Flute and Viola, performed live: 13’ IV. Intersections: sextet, premiere, 35’
DANCERS I select dancers before I set a concert date on the basis of their capacity and willingness to connect imaginatively to my raw movement material. When a dancer enlivens the movement and the movement enlivens the dancing I select that dancer.
Dancers 2018: Jessica Ames, Taylor Ennen, Tomomi Imai, Morgan McMahon, Cristina Ramos; Erin Pellecchia, Thursday and Friday, Katie Montoya Saturday.
CONCERTS Vencl Dance concerts are connected.
2018 I began working on a new dance in 2010 and in the winter of 2013 began working with dancers on what became the evening length quintet Long Before Afterward that premiered in New York City,
February 2016. After that concert a 15 minute section of LBA was selected for Triskelion’s Collab-Fest Showcase (November, 2016). To fit it to Triskelion’s space required reconstructing it. Insights primarily about spacial principles of weight and overlap emerged and to explore them further I continued the reconstruction process after the Showcase. In June we will present a reconstruction of an LBA excerpt and the new work that process made possible: Intersections.
THE NEWEST DANCE Intersections presents dancers as akin to small planets following movement pathways that overlap, parallel, echo, mirror, precede, follow, each other. The dancers are brought together and carried apart by prescribed pathways. The dance also presents the dancers stripped from pathways. Nothing brings them together; yet there they are, together. But each togetherness, severed from every other, is all there is, at once first, last; then simply not there.
MUSIC Dancers and I work primarily in silence or with a metronome to create a dialectical rather than a representative relationship between the music and the dance. A critical dimension of my dances is the unpredictability in the unfolding relationship between its two primary but independent components, the auditory and the visual. Music
2018 Arlene Sierra, an acclaimed contemporary classical composer, has provided ALL of the music, recorded or performed live, for two consecutive VD productions, February 2016 and June 2018. A New Yorker based in London, Sierra has composed music for the New York Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and BBC Radio 3, among others. www.arlenesierra.com/ bridgerecords.com/products/9343
The reconstruction of the LBA excerpt is danced to a recorded suite of Arlene’s music, consisting of ten works from 1:13 to 9:09 minutes long, each performed by an individual or group of musicians. The sextet Intersections is danced to recordings of three works by Arlene, Insects in Amber, Meditation on Violence, and Four Love Songs, each performed by a small ensemble of musicians. Two of Arlene’s solos: Cricket-Viol for singing viol and Art of Lightness for flute precedes the new dance. Wendy Richman, violist and Laura Cocks, flutist perform live with the music making itself as the sole visual element.
COLLABORATORS 2018 Lighting Designer: David Glista dancemotionusa.tumblr.com/post/144310121115/meet-dave-glista-lim%C3%B3n-dance-company-dancer Limon Dancer and Triskelion Lighting Designer
Costumer: Sarah Thea Swafford sarahtheacostume.wix.com/html_1 She has provided all of the costumes for two consecutive Vencl Dance productions, 2016 and 2018.
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