Henning Rübsam: SENSEDANCE performs a special engagement for its 2009 season with the New York premiere of "Impending Visit" at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Theater (the original location of the FAME high school), 120 West 46th Street (bet. Broadway & 6th Ave.) NYC. The varied program will be performed Saturday, November 7th and Sunday, November 8th at 8:00 pm. Dancers for the engagement are Maria Phegan, Dartanion Reed, Erin Ginn, Heidi Green, Victor Gonzalez, Henning Rübsam and long-time principal Ramon Thielen. The lighting design is by Philip Treviño.
Rübsam's new creation "Impending Visit" features the work of Puerto Rican composer Rafael Aponte-Ledée. Rübsam will also dance the solo he created in 2002 for his mentor, the late Prima Ballerina Assoluta Eva Evdokimova. As a tribute in her memory, Litanei & Frühlingsglaube is set to two lieder by
Franz Schubert (Litany for the Feast of All Souls & Faith in Spring). Other works being performed are set to music by frequent collaborators Beata Moon and Ricardo Llorca. Erin Ginn will make her debut in the 2007 movement study "Innocence" to music by the late Ronald Mazurek.
Henning Rübsam directs SENSEDANCE, a New York City-based dance company, presenting annual NYC seasons since 1992. He continues to reach out to artists of other disciplines and has an impressive roster of frequent collaborators. SENSEDANCE was founded in the hope that through the SENSES for a moment we can still all meet. Rübsam, who also directs and choreographs for opera and theater, currently collaborates with TONY Award nominee
Tsidii Le Loka on her new show "To the Rising Sun."
Rübsam was the subject of television documentaries in both the U.S. and his native Germany and DANCEVISTA produced three TV specials about him and his work. The documentary "Behind the Curtain" features him alongside NYCB and Graham principals as well as Prima Ballerina Assoluta Eva Evdokimova, for whom he created a critically acclaimed solo. He has been awarded government, foundation and corporate grants as well as the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen- und Halbach Prize, a Lincoln Center Fellowship, and the DRA Award.
He joined the faculty of his alma mater, The Juilliard School, in fall 2006 and is Resident Choreographer of the Hartford City Ballet. He is a sought-after guest choreographer for ballet and contemporary ensembles across the globe and a master teacher for dance technique and dance composition. In February 2009 he was honored onstage with Bergen Community College's DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD 2009 for his "outstanding contribution of talent, artistry, dedication and serv
Ice To the performing arts world." Previous recipients include actress
Olympia Dukakis and composer
Philip Glass. Rübsam is the first dance artist to be so honored.
Tickets for "Impending Visit" are $30; online at www.smarttix.com or by phone at (212) 868-4444. Artists/Students/Dancers Rush for $15 (with code "dancer" online / phone and with ID/class card at door). Box office at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Theater will open at 6pm on the days of the performance. For benefit information please contact: sensedance@sensedance.org
www.sensedance.org
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