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Greetings!
Please join the company in February to see the next phase of our new work:
On
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 7:30PM we are performing
Versailles Undone at Dixon Place on a shared program with MElder Dance.
Cheap tickets: Dixon Place is offering a
Special Promo Code
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FEB
FF16" will give you a $2 discount on the general $12 advance tickets.
Fast Forward provides opportunities for choreographers working in all dance forms to workshop 25 - 35 min pieces on a shared bill curated around a theme.
Versailles Undone
references the French Revolution and the decline of the monarchy and is loosely based on the fictional novel Farewell My Queen, by Chantal Thomas. The gap between rich and poor and the social unrest due to inequality both historically and in contemporary society form part of the exploration in the piece. Featuring Marie Antoinette as the central character who is portrayed as both matryr and naivete, Baroque dance informs the physicality of the project and hanging ropes are used throughout as a metaphor for merrymaking, execution and as a lifeline for the destitute. Performed by Courtney Drasner, Sarah Housepian, and Julia Jurgilewicz.
Save the Date:
March 5, 2016 at 6pm
Brooklyn Museum Target First Saturdays
The company performs Reflex as part of Dance Intersection. There will be a Q & A with topics related to Women's History Month at the Brooklyn Museum.
The mission of the Dance Intersection is to engage audiences in the creative process both as a way to build community and as means to shape and inform the work. Free tickets must be reserved in advance.
Tickets
Reflex-
Six dancers are featured in this dance of chain reactions, where touch is an analogy for the power of language.
Help support our upcoming work through our Dance Intersection series.
The Dance Intersection is a new model of engaging audiences with the Erica Essner Performance Co-Op in an effort to create dialogue around dance creation as the primary platform for dance presentation. Through the Dance Intersection, the company opens up its creative process in a series of ongoing forums and formats in an effort to invite new types of engagement with an emphasis on dance making.
Erica Essner Performance Co-Op
was founded in 1990 in San Francisco and enjoyed a decade of performing, teaching and touring in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2000, Erica Essner moved to New York City and re-established the Company. The Company is still going strong in New York, and is proud to mark its twenty-fourth anniversary this year with significant recent achievements: These include performances at the Black Box International Festival, (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Brooklyn Children's Museum, San Francisco International Arts Festival, site-specific work on The High Line, Central Park SummerStage, Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out, Joyce SoHo, the Rio de Janeiro Choreographic Center, Alaska DanceTheater, DanceNow Festival, Downtown Dance Festival, and the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center.
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