COUNTERPOINTE Set for Brooklyn's The Actors Fund Arts Center, 4/8-10

Norte Maar, a committed international think-tank dedicated to the creation, promotion, and presentation of collaborations in the disciplines of the visual, literary, and the performing arts, together with Brooklyn Ballet, present CounterPointe, April 8-10, 2016 in downtown Brooklyn's The Actors Fund Arts Center. This annual curated performance series features new work by women choreographers for pointe. For this, its fourth iteration, 7 women choreographers have been paired with 7 Brooklyn based women visual artists to collaborate and create both a new physical and visual work by each--investigating the process of creation, inspiration and development.

CounterPointe will present collaborations by series curator Julia K. Gleich (Gleich Dances) with sculptor Rachel Beach, and Lynn Parkerson (Brooklyn Ballet) with artist Michelle Forsyth as well as Kristin Draucker with sculptor Kara Daving, Brenda Neville (Neville Dance Theatre) with sculptor Courtney Puckett, Janice Rosario (Janice Rosario & Company) with painter Jessica Weiss, Ursula Verduzco with sculptor Sarah Bednarek and Eryn Renee Young (XAOC Contemporary Ballet) with artist Amanda Browder.

Inaugurated in 2012 CounterPointe is focused on the presentation of new works by women choreographers for the pointe shoe. The series has been celebrated for breaking new ground expanding the ballet concert vocabulary, investigating new and historic territory, encouraging discussion and creating a forum for women, young or old, emerging or established, to take artistic risks.

"This year Norte Maar's CounterPointe is all about women collaborating," explains Julia K. Gleich, co-founder of Norte Maar and originator of the CounterPointe Series. "Norte Maar pulls from its rich association with dance makers and artists to bring a fresh new look at the ballet idiom and further the collaborative spirit while normalizing the role of women as creative leaders."

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department for Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

SCHEDULE

Friday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 10 at 4:00 p.m.

Post Performance discussion with the choreographers led by Kathryn Posin Saturday April 9 TBC.

TICKET INFO

General admission tickets are $20, Students and seniors, $15. Tickets can be purchased at the door or online at http://bit.ly/1UYUEC9.

VENUE INFORMATION

The Actors Fund Arts Center is located at 160 Schermerhorn Street in downtown Brooklyn and accessible by A, C, or G trains to Hoyt-Schermerhorn. 2, 3 to Hoyt Street. F, R to Jay St./Metrotech. 4, 5 to Borough Hall.

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