Joyce SoHo
155 Mercer Street (between Houston & Prince)

Thursday - Saturday, May 10-12 at 7:30pm
Saturday & Sunday, May 12 & 13 at 2:00pm

Tickets: $20 (adults); $15 (students/seniors); $10 kids (matinee performance only)
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To celebrate the 150th birthday of modern-dance pioneer Loie Fuller (1862-1928), Time Lapse Dance presents a season honoring her legacy at Joyce SoHo, May 10-13, 2012. In tribute, Artistic Director Jody Sperling -- internationally-recognized as the foremost interpreter of Fuller's genre -- offers a range of works varying in approach from reverential to experimental. The program features revivals of Roman Sketches (2007) and Turbulence (2011) as well as the premiere of a new biographical theater work.

In conjunction with the season performances, the company will also present a lecture at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on April 12, considering Fuller's life and art in relation to contempoary cultural movements in dance, the visual arts and cinema. 

Loie Fuller (1862-1928) created a unique art form by crafting mesmerizing, multi-media spectacles out of fabric, motion and light. With her swirling costumes and specially-engineered illuminations, this American-born artist enraptured fin de siècle Paris. A favorite subject of visual artists (Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Latrec, François-Raoul Larche, Pierre Roche, among others), she became the embodiment of the Art Nouveau movement. Fuller's unprecedented success in Europe paved the way for the careers of later modern dancers, including Isadora Duncan, Maud Allan, and Ruth St. Denis. Fuller was influential, not just in fields of dance and the visual arts, but also in lighting design, stagecraft and cinema. Given the today's preoccupation with technology and its origins, Fuller's ingenious use of special effects has particular relevance. An independent, visionary artist, Fuller fashioned herself into one of her era's most influential and celebrated performers.

This program is funded in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.