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NYC PREMIERE
“Netta Yerushalmy is changing our view of modern masterpieces.” – Dance Magazine
Netta Yerushalmy weaves a quilt of borrowed material that stretches the idea of pluralism until it almost snaps.
ABOUT THE WORK
Experience the groundbreaking synthesis of a multiplicity of cultures and genres with MOVEMENT, an electrifying performance by acclaimed choreographer Netta Yerushalmy. Witness over one hundred dance citations woven together into a radical quilt, challenging their boundaries until their pluralistic vision nearly bursts.
MOVEMENT is a continuation of Yerushamly’s ongoing practice of repurposing, reorienting, and re-contextualizing dance, spinning fragments of seemingly unrelated works into an enthralling new whole. This maximalist performance shines light on dance as an inevitable and unifying force in a brittle and confused world.
The performance features a new score by award-winning composer Paula Matthusen and is performed by dancers hailing from Korea, Senegal, Taiwan, and across the USA.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Netta Yerushalmy is a choreographer and performer based in New York. Her research-based dance-making is propelled by a passion for, and trust in, the body as a site of ineluctable knowledge. Her work is aesthetically and ethically committed to generating questions, not answers. She has been recognized with many prestigious awards, including a United States Artists Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Princeton Arts Fellowship, National Dance Project, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, Research Fellowship from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. She started to choreograph at age 17 and has created more than a hundred dances.
RUN TIME
1 hour and 10 minutes with no intermission.
SUPPORT
NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and the Howard Gilman Foundation; Van Cleef and Arpels; Collins Building Services; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; and Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
