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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 Yerushalmy’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.
CREATIVE CREDITS
CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY: Burr Johnson, Catie Leasca, Christopher Ralph, Caitlin Scranton, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Khalifa Babacar Top
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Paula Matthusen
DRAMATURGY: Katherine Profeta
COSTUME DESIGN: Magdalena Jarkowiec
LIGHTING DESIGN: Tuçe Yasak
PRODUCED WITH: Miranda Wright, Los Angeles Performance Practice
RUN TIME
1 hour and 10 minutes with no intermission.
SUPPORT
MOVEMENT was co-commissioned by PEAK Performances at Montclair State (NJ). This project was created, in part, at The Yard, an artist residency and performance center dedicated to contemporary dance and related arts, with additional development support from a New York City Center Choreography Fellowship, Dance Initiative, Miami Light Project, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). Support for MOVEMENT came from DanceNYC, New Music USA, NYSCA, The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, Harkness Foundation, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. MOVEMENT was developed in residence at the Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University.
Produced for Broadcast and Online Streaming by Montclair State University (NJ) for PEAK Performances.
Premiere:
PEAK Performances, Montclair State University
March 17, 2022.
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; Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; Collins Building Services; Harkness Foundation for Dance; Villa Albertine; General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA; Goethe Institut; Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.
