92Y's DIG DANCE Moving Forward Presents GENDER SHIFTS, 4/28
By: Christina Mancuso Apr. 04, 2017
Cherylyn Lavagnino, Artistic Director of Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance, will present a new, combination choreographic work, "Gender Shifts," at 92Y's DIG DANCE Moving Forward: Women Ballet Choreographers East and West, on Friday, April 28 at 8pm, in the historic Buttenwieser Hall. Five female East/West choreographers will come together that evening to present a singular program of new dances and revivals. *Program below.
Cherylyn Lavagnino will also present an excerpt of "Drive", her 2016 male/female double duet, for the "Fridays at Noon" series, at the same location. A discussion on the unique place women ballet choreographers' hold in the ballet, their future in the ballet, and a look at the recently formed Women Ballet Choreographers Institute at Djerassi will follow, hosted by author Wendy Oliver. Joining Cherylyn Lavagnino at "Fridays at Noon" are choreographers Gemma Bond, Lydia Johnson, Dalia Rawson and Kathryn Roszak. Cherylyn Lavagnino's choreographic mission is to create movement that engages an audience by aligning the rigor of ballet with the humanistic performance values of contemporary dance. Her choreography uses pointe work as a platform to delve into the range of human interaction and emotion. The unconventional use of ballet expresses complex and honest portrayals through the choreography and the dancers. Music is paramount to her creative process, and its influence pushes and prods the imagery.92Y "FRIDAYS AT NOON" AND
"DIG DANCE: Moving Forward: Women Ballet Choreographers East and West" FRIDAY, APRIL 28 AT NOON AND 8PM
92Y - Buttenwieser Hall
1395 Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128 GENERAL 92Y INFORMATION: 212-415-5500TICKETS:FRIDAYS AT NOON: From $10
http://www.92y.org/Event/FAN-Women-Ballet-Choreographers#sthash.xtIDluK0.dpu DIG DANCE - From $15
https://www.92y.org/Event/Moving-Forward.aspx"As always in Lavagnino's choreography, you get a sense of people on the go-rushing somewhere, charging ahead, finding partners or colleagues, then moving on. Designs materialize and vanish. This is a society in tumult, but full of hope-one in which structures crumble and are rebuilt in new ways." - Arts Journal "The intimacy with which her works touch the musical compositions set to the dances is like a welcome shade in the midst of a roaring blaze, as the intensity with which the dancers evoke her visions." - Broadway World"Drawn to the rigor of ballet and the humanism of modern dance" - Time OutABOUT CHERYLYN LAVAGNINO Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance performed at Danspace Project's DANCE: Access series for seven seasons, as well as at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Dance Now/NYC Festival, The Joyce Theater's Evening Stars series in Battery Park, Symphony Space's Dance Sampler, the Field's Uptown/Downtown workshop and performance series and three times at Inside/Out at Jacob's Pillow. Cherylyn Lavagnino Dance has been supported by space grants from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, company residencies at The Yard, SILO and Catskill Mountain Foundation, and has continually received corporate matching support. The company has received funding from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, American Music Center's Live Music for Dance grant and from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in support of its Salon Series. This series of informal showings integrate live music and visual art to create dialogues among enthusiasts of dance, music and visual art.
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