New York Live Arts' Digital Dance Festival 2015 to Run 2/23-28

New York Live Arts today announced the featured artists for 2015's first Digital Dance Festival, taking place February 23-28, 2015 and presented in partnership with 2ndLine.tv. Participating artists include niv Acosta; the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Elena Demyanenko and Dai Jian.

Live Arts' Digital Dance Festival (DDF) began in 2014 as a continued way to challenge how audiences view and interpret live performance. Pulling from their archive of past seasons, the DDF presents screenings of performances that provoke and intrigue the ever-growing dance public. Past participants have included Steven Reker/People Get Ready, Donna Uchizono Company, Jen Rosenblit and Live Arts' resident dance company, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Performances are viewed online and tickets are pay what you wish.

This year's DDF lineup includes the following works:

niv Acosta: i shot denzel (2014)

Former New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks artist (2011), Acosta's i shot denzel is the sixth incarnation of a three-year series of "denzels." This multidisciplinary work explores black masculinity within the context of contemporary or "classical" movement.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company: A Quarreling Pair (2007)

In A Quarreling Pair, Jones explores the dualities present between any two people, including the struggle to co-habitate and live together against all odds. The work was inspired in part by Jane Bowles' play of the same name: an absurdist meditation written for two puppets that explores the relationship of two middle-aged sisters who sit in separate rooms and quarrel endlessly about trivial tasks, the futility of life and their inextricable bond. The New York Times described it as a "richly textured and layered theatrical adventure."

Elena Demyanenko and Dai Jian: Blue Room (2014)

A duet replete with "silky fluidity: movement that emanates from deep under the skin, where joints are loose, and the spine is airy" (The New York Times), Blue Room is a collaboration between Chinese artist Dai Jian and Russian-born Elena Demyanenko, recent alumni of Trisha Brown Dance Company. The performance features individual and paired works that explore relationship and unfold as a dialogue through myriad possible intricate and detailed existences. Two independent mind-bodies with different backgrounds, behaviors, languages and cultures are sutured together.

Performances can be viewed at 2ndline.tv. Tickets are pay what you wish. Tickets may be purchased online at newyorklivearts/season. Questions can be addressed by phone at 212-924-0077 and in person at the box office. Box office hours are Monday to Friday from 1 to 9pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 9pm.