Prep School: Moving in Concert

Mette Ingvartsen is no stranger to the NYU Skirball stage – after 7 Pleasures (2017) & to come: extended (2019), she returns with the US premier of Moving in Concert, this time taking the stage herself amongst a company of dancers.

Moving in Concert imagines a universe where humans, technologies and natural materials coexist to create an abstract set of movement. Inspired by how bodies are sensorially affected by living in a digitalized world, the performance explores a poetics of plasticity, abstraction and imagination.

Learn more about Mette Ingvartsen’s work, on and off the stage.

RELATED EVENTS
  • Sat Mar 16 – Sun Mar 17, 2024

Mette Ingvartsen: Moving in Concert

  • Dance
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Nine people in tight, full-body turquoise suits pose in an abstract, interconnected arrangement against a white background. Their faces and features are completely obscured by the suits.
  • Sat Oct 26, 2019

Mette Ingvartsen: to come (extended)

  • Dance
  • Music
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A group of nude people closely gathered together, bending and leaning on each other on a light-colored surface. Their faces and bodies overlap, creating an abstract, intertwined effect.
  • Fri Sep 29 – Sat Sep 30, 2017

Mette Ingvartsen: 7 Pleasures

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From the Archives

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André Lepecki on Mette Ingvartsen

But what about that other crucial element for dance, what about dance’s relation to “the body”?

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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.

  • Ramsay Burt, Ungoverning Dance: Contemporary European Theatre Dance and the Commons (2016)
  • Melinda Cooper, Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era (2008)
  • Amelia Jones and Andrew Stephenson, Performing the Body/Performing the Text (1999)
  • André Lepecki, Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (2016)
  • Rebecca Schneider, The Explicit Body in Performance (1997)

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EXTRA CREDIT

Light, sound, embodiment – Mette Ingvartsen’s work emphasizes a range of sensory experience for the audience, as well as performers. Keep exploring with a visit to the Dream House, & experience an immersive light installation installed (for 30+ years) in an apartment in Tribeca:


The space is soft pink, neon purple, and incredibly loud; you hear the music with your body as much as with your ears. Giant speaker cabinets surround the small room, which is lined with wall-to-wall carpeting and has pillows strewn about the floor. Lounging is encouraged, as Young’s work deliberately invites visitors to slow down and experience the present. (Gothamist, 2023)

A person sits alone on the floor in a purple-lit room with abstract decorations on the walls and two large speakers near a patterned backdrop.