BEACH SESSIONS
  
"ROCKAWAY BEACH GETS ITS OWN BRAND-NEW OUTDOOR DANCE FESTIVAL"
Time Out Magazine 
THIS WEEKEND
EMERY LECRONE DANCE
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8
4PM AND 6PM
ON THE SAND @ BEACH 81ST
FREE 
Surfrider NYC Beach Clean Up following 6pm performance
 
                                                                                    Shane Ohmer and Izabela Szylinska shot by Samantha Casolari

LASCIATEMI QUI SOLO

Choreography: Emery LeCrone

Dancer: Kimi Nikaidoh
 
RITONARE

Choreography: Emery LeCrone

Dancers: Shane Ohmer & Izabela Szylinska


Photo series shot by Samantha Casolari. Click here to view the whole story.
 
At Beach Sessions this Saturday, rising choreographer Emery LeCrone will give us two mesmerizing sneak-peaks of her upcoming Joyce Theatre program, Lasciatemi Qui Solo and Ritonare, with her dancers Kimi Nikadok, Shane Ohmer, and Izabela Szylinska. Stay after the performance to learn about Emery's process and a Q + A .

For her Joyce debut on August 13-14, the choreographer, who has been described by New York Magazine as "an entrepreneurial choreographic mind and troupe of the future," and whose work has been coined by The New Yorker as "ambitious...expansive, and dynamic," will present a program of past repertory and new works. Beach Sessions is excited to host her previews. Come see it first hand on the sand!


For more information, click here: beachsessions.tumblr.com/emerylecrone

DIRECTIONS: Far Rockaway A-Train to Broad Channel. Transfer to Shuttle (S-train) to Beach 90th Street. Walk to the beach and down to Beach 82nd. Entrances at Beach 86, 84 and 82nd.

RAIN DATE: Rain date will be announced morning of Saturday performance.
 
Beach Sessions has paired each presenting choreographer up with a fine art photographer to create original content. Every Monday a new story will be released. Click here for Emery LeCrone's series shot by Samantha Casolari. And stay tuned for Loni Landon Dance Project by Daniel Terna next week!

 
                                                                                   Shane Ohmer and Izabela Syzlinka shot by Samantha Casolari
UPCOMING
Loni Landon Dance Project
Saturday, August 15 | 4pm & 6pm

DOUBLING (Excerpts)
Choreography: Loni Landon
Dancers:  Eloise DeLuca, David Flores, Jon Ole Olstad
and Caitlyn Taylor

Photo series by Daniel Terna
Story will release August 3
For more information click here.

Shannon Gillen | VIM VIGOR
Saturday, August 22 | 4pm & 6pm

Pre show VIM VIGOR instant creation
Dancer: Shannon Gillen

Horizon High
Choreography: Shannon Gillen
Dancers:  Jason Cianciulli and  Lavinia Vago

Post show VIM VIGOR instant creation

Dancers: Shannon Gillen, Jason Cianciulli, and Lavinia Vago


Photo series by Samantha Casolari
Story will release August 17 
HIGHLIGHTS
THE D.R.E.A.M. RING | AUGUST 1
Photos by Ursula Sommer
ABOUT US
Beach Sessions'   mission is to support creation, to inspire sustained investment in the natural beauty, and raise awareness of the unifying social importance of our oceans and beaches. This project is meant to show that dance has remarkable range of possibilities.

The series aspires to become a Rockaway Beach annual summertime tradition providing a unique platform for contemporary choreographers and dancers to connect with a new audience, and offering beachgoers and dance lovers a fresh and exciting way to experience the waterfront, its concessions, and the local Rockaway community.

Beach Sessions is partnering with Surfrider Foundation, an organization that is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world's oceans and beaches, to have organized beach clean-ups after each dance performance. By participating in the clean-up, a drink ticket will be handed out to Rippers at Beach 86th to enjoy a nice cool refreshment sponsored by SixPoint Brewery.

Beach Sessions was developed by Sasha Okshteyn and produced in collaboration with Black & White Project Space, Brooklyn, NY.

The inaugural season has been made possible by all of our Kickstarter supporters and local partners!

For more information go to beachsessions.tumblr.com

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