Art & Music in Motion at Great Neck Community Education Center

This concert includes dance works inspired by the original paintings of visual artists. A new work is featured, “Subway Windows,” based on “The Subway Series” paintings by Ilene Isseks, which will be projected behind the dancers. In the piece, groups of diverse subway riders engage in the NYC ritual of ignoring each other. As they bide their time on the train, we get glimpses into each rider’s psyche, thoughts and dreams. The work starts out comically and progresses into intense emotional interactions. As their destinations approach, the riders begin to revert to their original guarded selves, before bursting into a frenzied celebration of the subway that never sleeps. Directed by choreographer Beth Jucovy, the work is created in collaboration with the visual artist as well as the eight dancers/choreographers.

Additionally, the company will present a reworking of Ms. Jucovy’s pivotal work, “Through the Portals,” first created in 2015, in collaboration with visual artist Susan Ruth Cohen and her series “Finding the Song.” “Through the Portals” depicts glimpses into moments, transient worlds of color and relationships - before they dissolve.

The concert  features dance works in collaboration with fabulous vocalists! These include folk-rock songs arranged and sung by Farah Chandu and Willow Interfaith Women's Choir, which she directs. A dance created to the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah” is featured. The dynamic Rose Gunter and Stuart Waters”  will present several arrangements of rock songs with the dancers and also add a live music component to “Subway Windows” with their rendition of “Take the A Train.”

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This program is made possible in part with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the NY State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the NY State Legislature and administered by Huntington Arts Council, Inc.

About Through the Portals: “… a-tour-de-force… it appeared as if they were arising from the art becoming its living embodiment… creating a chiaroscuro of movement,” Stephen Vrattos, Queens Courier.