RECENT EVENTS

Future Past

The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center presents Catherine Gallant/DANCE and Dances by Isadora on their Sundays at Three performance series on SUNDAY, FEB. 8 at 3 pm.
Admission is $10. For tickets: www.92Y.org/harkness
212.415.5500 or visit box office

Dances by Isadora and Catherine Gallant/DANCE will present new choreography and rarely seen gems of early modern dance in a program featuring all live music. World-renowned Duncan specialist, Catherine Gallant and her company will perform Ms. Gallant’s recent work, An Absurd Vice, and classic signature works on themes of love and death by Isadora Duncan.

Dancers are Billy Blanken, Natalia Brillante, Andrea Berger, Marie Carstens, Michelle Cohen, Rob Fernandez, Loretta Thomas, Chriselle Tidrick, Francesca Todesco and guest artist Francisco Ruvalcaba, with musicians Cathlene Pineda, Kate Emerman, Mark Fiedler and Courtney Orlando.

Benefit reception to follow at 5-7pm at 1623 Third Ave. #21K
RSVP to catdance34@hotmail.com

www.92Y.org/harkness

FREE Outdoor Performance

Catherine Gallant/DANCE in a FREE outdoor performance
of
An Absurd Vice.
Funded by the Manhattan Cultural Arts Fund of the
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Friday, June 27th at 7:45pm on E. 91st St.
(between Third and Second Ave.)
Outdoor dance performances are rare occurrences on the Upper East Side however on Friday, June 27th a small group of dancers will perform at twilight on a street closed to vehicles for the past thirty years. The raked terrain of East 91st Street which is flanked by Ruppert and Yorkville Towers will transform the work, ,recently presented at the Merce Cunningham Studio, into a surprising dance happening.

The performance will be followed by a reception and silent auction to support future projects. RAINDATE: Sat. June 28 7:45 pm
Call 917 673-3132 for more info.

catdance34@hotmail.com

An Absurd Vice

Thurs. November 29th at 9pm
Fri. November 30th at 9pm
and Sat. December 1st at 8pm

Catherine Gallant/DANCE presents An Absurd Vice. This evening length work features Ms. Gallant's wonderful dancer/collaborators, Natalia Brillante, Michelle Cohen, Chriselle Tidrick, Francesca Todesco, Billy Blanken, Noah Damer, Rob Fernandez and guest artist Francisco Ruvalcaba of the Limon Company.

at
Merce Cunningham Studio
55 Bethune St. 11th fl.

Part dream, part memory inflected narrative, An Absurd Vice is a meditation on the absurdity within love, intimacy and close relationships. The movement, which is mined from fragments of daily human observation, bristles with the brutal beauty of love. Whipping, collapsing, spinning and rising bodies travel along intricate pathways as love evades reason and eight expressive dancers tear through a lavish fabric of sensual movement design.

An Absurd Vice strips away the vestiges of romance to expose the melding and dissolving of partnerships as it plays with the cold hard numbers of psychological research examining the factors facilitating romantic attraction, mate selection, marriage, divorce and re-marriage. The work is inspired by the research of Ms. Gallant's husband whose work in psychology has focused on the paradox of being in love. Text, music and video filter through and weave together the sliding, overlapping chapters of this cautionary tale.

To make a reservation send info (date and number attending) to catdance34@hotmail.com or call (917) 673-3132

Directions to the Merce Cunningham Studio-
take the 1,2,3,A or C to 14th St. Walk west on 12th St. to Hudson and then one block south to Bethune. Walk west along Bethune to 55. Take elevator to 11th fl. Shoes must be removed before entering the theater space. (It's a long standing tradition.)
Visit the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation's website for more travel info.

www.merce.org

photo Fran Dickson

Exit All (2006)

Exit All uses the music of Johannes Brahms, John Cage and Meredith Monk as it opens a slow door revealing the end or beginning of a mysterious journey. The sections growing in length as each unfolds share a breathlessly ripped approach, a playful traverse (inspired by Fernand Leger) and a long farewell from prisoners of the self.

photo: Julie Lemberger 2006