Rebecca Stenn Company to Perform at West End Theatre, 5/19 - 5/22

Rebecca Stenn Company - Fantasy, Lies, Hubris and Voyeurism (note update title "Lies") - will perform a special New York City engagement May 19-22, 2011 at the West End Theatre, 263 West 86th Street (between Broadway & West End Avenue) 2nd floor (elevator available). The premieres will also feature live music as well as projections. 

Direction and Choreography for the evening is by Rebecca Stenn. This new work will be performed by long-time company dancers Eric Jackson Bradley, Trebien Pollard, John Mario Sevilla and Rebecca Stenn. Staying true to their long tradition of always performing with live music, special guest, pianist extraordinaire, Alice Hwang, will be performing Chopin's Nocturnes alongside the dancers. Also, new to this show, Rebecca has collaborated with video designer and artist Benton Bainbridge, and the performance includes breathtaking and stunning environments created by Bainbridge. Additional music for the program will be written and performed by Jay Weissman. The the lighting design is by: Kathy Kaufmann. www.rebeccastenncompany.com

Rebecca Stenn, dancer, choreographer, teacher, writer, founded Rebecca Stenn Company in 1996. The company has since performed to critical acclaim and sold out houses in over 50 cities in the US and internationally including such venues as The Edinburgh Festival, The Copenhagen Festival, The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, Dance New Amsterdam and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival among many others. Upcoming events include performances next summer at the Artspace Theater in Capetown, South Africa. As a principal dancer with Momix Dance Theater from 1989 to 1996, She performed in over 30 countries and throughout the U.S. and appeared as a featured performer in films for Italian, Spanish and French television. Stenn is a founding member of Pilobolus Too with whom she toured throughout the world from 1996 to 2002. She has been has been a contributing editor at Dance magazine and The Dance Insider. Stenn is a teaching artist for The Joyce Theater and The Lincoln Center Open Stages Program, and is on faculty at The New School as Choreographer in Residence. Stenn is the Dance Mentor/Choreographer for the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. She earned her BFA in dance from the Juilliard School and her MFA in dance from The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

Performances are Thursday-Saturday at 7:00pm and Sunday at 3:00 pm. Tickets are $20 general; $15 artists / students / seniors (cash only). Take the 1/9 subway to 86th Street. Use the ramp on the north side of the street to enter the church. The theater is located on the second floor. An elevator is available. For information visit www.rebeccastenncompany.com
or for reservations http://www.thebanggroup.com/wet_reservations.php

 

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