Puerto Rico: SENSEDANCE's IMPENDING VISIT Gets World Premiere in San Juan Festival, 10/31; Honors Henning Rubsam

The world premiere of "Impending Visit" will be at the Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes at the Tapia Theater in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday, October 31, 2009. The festival honors choreographer Henning Rubsam for his long-time commitment to contemporary music. Rubsam's new creation "Impending Visit" features the work of Puerto Rican composer Rafael Aponte-Ledee.

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.

Rubsam 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."

Tickets for "Impending Visit" at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Theater 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). The box office will open at 6pm on the days of the performance. For benefit information contact: sensedance@sensedance.org or visit www.sensedance.org. 

Tickets for the Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes at the Tapia Theater are $33 and can be purchased by clicking here.