San Francisco's Kathryn Roszak brings her Danse Lumiere to share a program with other women choreographers from New York and California on the 92nd Street Y's Moving Forward: Women Ballet Choreographers East and West. Two performances on Friday April 28, 12 Noon (on the Fridays at Noon series) and 8 PM (on the Dig Dance series) at the 92nd Street Y/Buttenwieser Hall, Lexington and 92nd Street. Roszak will present excerpts from Reverse Flow, inspired by the geological shifts of the Amazon River, and Emily Dances, with poetry of Emily Dickinson.
The Fridays at Noon performance will show works by Gemma Bond, Lydia Johnson, Cherylyn Lavagnino and Kate Thomas of New York, and Dalia Rawson and Kathryn Roszak of California. The hour of excerpted dances will be followed by a discussion with author Wendy Oliver on the unique place held by women ballet choreographers, their future in ballet, and the recently formed Women Ballet Choreographers Institute at Djerassi. Oliver, author of Dance and Gender: An Evidence-Based Approach reads from her groundbreaking and newly-published (2017) book. The event will also include an 11 AM screening in the Dance Center lobby of Kathryn Roszak's "Secrets on the Way," inspired by the Swedish Nobel Prize-winning poet Tomas Transtromer, presented last year by Scandinavia House in NYC.Dig Dance, at 8 PM, will show works by Gemma Bond, Lydia Johnson, Cherylyn Lavagnino, all of New York, and Dalia Rawson and Kathryn Roszak of California.Fame is a Bee
It has a song
It has a sting -
Ah, too, it has a wing.
Emily Dickinson
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