Friday, January 12 from 9:00-9:30pm
Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 West 55th Street @ 9th Avenue
*Sunday, January 14, from 3:45-4:45pm
The Ailey Studios, Studio 6B
405 West 55th Street @ 9th Avenue
*seating limited for Sunday’s showcase, priority for APAP presenters
Jody Sperling and her Time Lapse Dance ensemble, represented by Cadence Arts Network, Inc., present visually captivating programs that explore human entanglement with nature. The company's showcases highlight the climate change-themed collaboration between choreographer Jody Sperling and environmental composer Matthew Burtner. This timely program has been heralded as “a visually gorgeous evening of performance” with “a deeper level to discover” (Fjord Review).
The showcase performances, presented as part of the Dance Managers Collective, feature excerpts from Sperling-Burtner works. Their newest collaboration, Arbor, dwells on the nature of trees. In Wind Rose, dancers render changing atmospheric patterns palpable to sight, sound, and touch. Plastic Harvest explores the proliferation of plastic pollution with a comic and poignant sensibility. On Friday evening, Sperling also presents her solo Piece for a Northern Sky, a stunning meditation on planetary motion.
All of these works employ the company’s signature style involving the use of body-extending costuming that abstracts the essence of human movement into elemental and organic forces. This technique draws upon that of dance icon Loïe Fuller (1862-1928). Sperling is the world’s leading Fuller interpreter and the company is remarkable for its body of work which furthers Fuller’s genre into contemporary ecological forms.
Friday Program: Plastic Harvest (8 min excerpt), Piece for a Northern Sky (5 mins), Arbor (7 min excerpt)
Sunday Program: Wind Rose (20 mins), Arbor (15 min excerpt)
Touring program is available as a theatrical stage production or as site/street iteration.
Our visually-compelling programs have multigenerational appeal. Book us for a general audience performance, a family matinee and/or inquire about our Communi-tree school programs.
The program is free but reservations are required. RSVP HERE
"every audience member from the youngest to the oldest was riveted"
-Christina Delfico, iDig2Learn
Find us at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) conference Expo Hall
Rhinelander Hall, Booth #146