Chen Dance Center to Present NEWSTEPS, 5/7-9
By: Tyler Peterson May. 01, 2015
Chen Dance Center presents newsteps, its semi-annual emerging choreographers series, May 7-9 at 7:30 PM. Since its founding in 1994, the Series has supported and presented over 250 artists developing innovative and risk-taking works through rehearsal space grants and public performances. The five choreographers were selected for the May 7-9 concerts: Jonathan Breton, Hannah Cohen, Bree Nasby, Janice Rosario, and Ashley Carter & Vanessa Martinez de Banos.
The young choreographers, selected through an open audition by a panel of dance leaders including H.T. Chen, Sarah Skaggs and Walter Rutledge, each receive a rehearsal space grant, an honorarium, and are produced in three public performances at the Center. Jonathan Breton has created a solo inspired by nature and its complexities;Ashley Carter and Vanessa Martinez de Banos' work deals with society's mistrust of variance form the norm;
Hannah Cohen has created a duet "Genesis," which, through movement, explores word as material;
Bree Nasby will present a solo investigating how tension and suspension build and dissolve;
Janice Rosario's "Unlea(she)d" explores how women find anguish and strength in their identity. Photo by KRG Photography
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