SENSEDANCE to Bring TWO BY TWO to Peridance, 11/23-24

Henning Rübsam's SENSEDANCE will present TWO BY TWO - SENSEDANCE in an evening of new pas de deux" on Saturday, November 23 at 8:30pm and Sunday, November 24 at 6:00 pm at Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance, 126 East 13th Street. NYC. The premieres will celebrate his 22nd year as founding artistic director of his ensemble.

The Dancers for the season are: Nathan Bland, Cynthia Dragoni, Uthman Ebrahim, Heidi Green, Erin Ginn, Temple Kemezis, Oisin Monaghan, Juan Rodriguez, Henning Rübsam, Jacqueline Stewart, and Matt Van.

Tickets are Premium/Reserved: $44.00; General Admission: $30.00; Students with ID/Dancers with (any dance studio's) class card: $w/ ID: $22.00. They are available by calling SmartTix at (212) 868-444 and on the web.

Henning Rübsam is the artistic director of SENSEDANCE, a resident choreographer for Hartford City Ballet, on faculty at The Juilliard School and a visiting guest artist at Texas Academy of Ballet. He earned his BFA in dance from The Juilliard School, where mentors included Martha Hill and Elizabeth Keen. While there, he performed as the Faun in the Nijinsky/Debussy ballet, worked extensively with Anna Sokolow, and toured internationally with the Limón Dance Company. Upon graduation he founded his own ensemble SENSEDANCE and continued to dance with other choreographers, namely Duncan Macfarland, Murray Louis, and Alwin Nikolais. Rübsam appeared as a guest dancer with a myriad of contemporary choreographers, and in works of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Doris Humphrey. Among Rübsam's citations are a Jerome L. Greene Fellowship, a Lincoln Center Fellowship, a Manhattan Spirit Award as "best male dancer," a choreography award from Stephens College, an award for his advocacy from Dancers Responding to AIDS, and the Distinguished Artist Award from Bergen College, the first time this award was given to a dance artist. Last year, he and his company represented the United States at the Danza Nueva Festival in Lima. Rübsam also is works choreographer and director for theatre and opera. He has been a guest choreographer and teacher for numerous companies and universities throughout the Americas as well as in Australasia and Europe. A writer, historian and advocate for his art form, he is a long-time board member of the Martha Hill Dance Fund, has implemented a dance appreciation program at Juilliard for the general public, taught dance history at SUNY Purchase, has given lectures for the Young Patrons Program at Lincoln Center. He created a solo for his late mentor, Prima Ballerina Assoluta Eva Evdokimova. Rübsam, who has presented annual performances with SENSEDANCE and has toured internationally, appears in several television documentaries about his work - produced by Dancevista - and in the documentary feature Behind the Curtain. A documentary (by director Greg Vander Veer) about the company's 2010 tour through Peru is forthcoming.

For more information, visit www.sensedance.org.

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