Netta Yerushalmy: Movement

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.

Date + Time

About

NYC PREMIERE

Netta Yerushalmy weaves a quilt of borrowed material that stretches the idea of pluralism until it almost snaps.

  • Fri Nov 1 – Sat Nov 2, 2024
  • 7:30 PM

Run Time

1 hour and 10 minutes with no intermission.

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

The artist

Netta Yerushalmy

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; The 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-New York; Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Marta Heflin Foundation; as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Allies for Arts Access Fund support.