New York Theatre Barn's Choreography Lab to Explore New Musical DAYS OF RAGE

The fourth season of New York Theatre Barn's Choreography Lab launches on Monday, February 20, 2016 at The Cell. The Choreography Lab is the only curated choreography platform where choreographers and writers collaborate to develop movement for new musicals during incubation.

The first installment of the lab's fourth season is titled 4 Choreographers / 1 New Musical. Four choreographers will explore dance from four different moments of the new musical Days of Rage. This civil rights musical about the Black Panthers and the Weathermen Underground is currently in development with New York Theatre Barn, and is written by Shoshana Greenberg and Hyeyoung Kim (Sunfish).

The featured choreographers are Christian Bufford, John Dipple, Glenn Giron, and Katharine Pettit. Their dancers include David Andre, Jordan Aragon, Patrick Ball, Sean Bell, DeShawn Bowens, Neville Braithwaite, Krystina M. Burton, Kevin Carillo, Nichole Forde, Natasha Frater, Jay Gamboa, Lulu Gomez, Cedric Greene, Aaron Heaps, Cameron Anika Hill, Lina Jonnerhag, Chris Medlin, T Aimee Van Dam, Victoria Vikstrom.

Additional artists include moderators/creative consultants Christopher Noffke and Adolpho Blaire, performer Sydney Kane, musicians Hyeyoung Kim and Matthew SanGiovanni, and Joey Dipple's associate is Stephanie Bissonnette.

"Physicality and movement are part of human expression. Finding the right movement is crucial to complete communication of untold stories. The physical world of Theatre Barn's chosen stories are explored and wrought over, just as the text of a new work is explored through readings, workshops, and work sessions," said Avital Asuleen, curator of the Choreography Lab.

Asuleen and Artistic Director Joe Barros created the lab to integrate choreography into new work development.

Nancy Manocherian's The Cell presents New York Theatre Barn's Choreography Lab at 2PM at The Cell, located at 338 West 23rd Street in New York City. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door and can be purchased at www.nytheatrebarn.org.

New York Theatre Barn, a Manhattan based non-profit theatre company founded in 2007, incubates, develops, and produces new musicals that tell untold stories. Our stories are inspired by the lives of real people and actual events. These stories are challenging, diverse, and alternative.