XAOC Presents New Ballets by Female Choreographer with All-Female Company at CHOREOGRAPHY UP CLOSE

XAOC Contemporary Ballet presents its second full evening of work on September 24, 2017 at 7pm at the NY City Center Studios. The evening will feature the company in five original ballets by artistic director and choreographer Eryn Renee Young.

The evening includes discussion on the processes behind the choreography and on creating ballet for the freelance artist in a changing cultural climate. Wine reception to follow.

The program includes:

- Six Memos, inspired by the writings of Italo Calvino with music by Raymond Enoksen.

- Allagi (The Consistency of Change), which was a winner of Edward Villella's 2015 Choreographers Competition with music by Kevin Keller.

- An excerpt from The Edge of Sunset Gems, commissioned by Norte Maar for CounterPointe 4 (a program of women who choreograph for pointe, paired with female visual artists), created in collaboration with artist Amanda Browder.

- Redux, with music by Les Tambours du Bronx.

- Bartok Suite, a world premiere, made possible by a residency at Dance at Socrates in August 2017.

Featured dancers: Kathleen Bollana, Debra Bona, Katie Eshbach, Jacline Henrichs, Danielle Rutherford, Michelle Thompson Ulerich (formerly of Ballet Austin), Fernanda Yamaguchi

IF YOU GO:

Choreography Up Close

Sept. 24, 2017 7pm

NY City Center Studios, 4th Floor

130 W. 56th Street, New York, NY

Info & Tickets: www.xaocballet.org

XAOC Contemporary Ballet is a New York City-based neoclassical ballet company founded by choreographer Eryn Renee Young in 2010. The name XAOC (pronounced zay-ock) is derived from the Greek 'χαος,' which means 'chaos' and implies explosive creation.

The company has been presented by Battery Dance Festival, Dance at Socrates, The Ailey Citigroup Theater, the Young Choreographer's Festival at Symphony Space (2x), Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, the Dumbo Dance Festival (3x), the CounterPointe Series (5x), Brooklyn Dance Festival, the Pushing Progress Series, and many others. Awards include selection as a winner of the 2015 Edward Villella Emerging Choreographers Competition, an Eryc Taylor Dance New Choreography Grant, selection for the 2013 Dance/USA Institute for Leadership, a 2015 Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant for their ballet outreach program "Project Ignite."

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