Friday, January 9 from 7:30-8:30pm

Saturday, January 10, from 5-6pm

NY Society for Ethical Culture, Adler Hall
2 W. 64th St @ Central Park West

Choreographer Jody Sperling and her Time Lapse Dance (TLD) ensemble create luminous performances expressing the power, fragility, and startling beauty of nature. In collaboration with the New York Society for Ethical Culture, TLD presents two preview showcase performances of Shapes of Change, the company’s upcoming 25th Anniversary program, for the 2026 Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) conference. 

The program features an illuminating demonstration of how transformative costuming may conjure naturalistic forms such as a forest grove, shifting clouds, cresting waves, and swirling tornadoes. The performance features highlights from: Arbor, expressing human kinship with trees; Wind Rose, visualizing patterns of atmospheric disturbance; and Sea Change, a work-in-progress reimagining our relationship with water in the wake of rising seas. Music for all works composed by Sperling’s long-time collaborator Matthew Burtner. These works reveal, and revel in, the joyful truth of humanity's inseparability from the natural world. The full Shapes of Change season will premiere Earth Week, 2026 — stay tuned for full details!

“a living, breathing work of art that illuminated the power of dance to connect us to the environment and to each other. Audiences were captivated, moved, and inspired. This is performance and the vibrancy of life at its most vital.”
— Moses T. Alexander Greene, North Carolina Museum of Art

JODY SPERLING/TIME LAPSE DANCE IS REPRESENTED BY CADENCE ARTS NETWORK, INC.

FIND US AT APAP: RHINELANDER, BOOTH 146