"UNA'S DESERTS IS A UNIQUE MODE OF DANCE PRESENTATION...IT READS AS AN EP, OR A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS - EACH SEGMENT AT ONCE COMPLETE AND LIMITLESS IN POTENTIAL."
- EYE ON THE ARTS
Photos by Nir Arieli
Deserts (2017)
Length: 75 minutes (including intermission)
Works: Atacama, Bronco, Cadet and Fatima
5 Dancers + 6 guest performers (optional)
Presented by: NYU Tisch Dance
World Premiere: Jack Crystal Theater (7/14-15/17)
Lighting Design: Jennifer Reiser
Costume Design: Chuck Wilt
About: Deserts is an evening of dances reflecting on human connection. The four works included in Deserts are chapters of a whole and were made within two years.
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Photos by Scott Shaw
Atacama (2017)
Length: 10 minutes
Dancers: 10 or more
Premiere Performers:
Daniel Alwell, Kyle Filley, Rebecca Margolick, Jennifer Payán , Maximilion Canion, Mitchell Christie, Sarah Esser, William Noling, Holly Sass and Sherah Shipman
Created on: Katie Cassady, Mitchell Christie, Rebecca Diab, Joshua Dwyre, Andrea Farley Shimota, Miyeko Ferguson, Mario Gonzalez, Sean Howe, Annika Krusensten, Zoe McNeil, William Noling, Maya Tenzer
World Premiere: Jack Crystal Theater (7/14-15/17)
Presented by: NYU Tisch Dance, Springboard Dance Montreal Works In Process
Excerpts Performed at: Place Des Arts, Montreal (6/23/16)
Costume Design: Chuck Wilt
About: Atacama is an ensemble work: six guest performers alongside the company. The work was inspired by the Atacama desert, the driest in the world.
Atacama was created with support from Alexandra Wells' Springboard Dance Montreal.
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Bronco (2017)
1st duet
Length: 16 minutes
2 Dancers: Kyle Filley and Chuck Wilt
World Premiere: Jack Crystal Theater (7/14-15/17)
Presented by: Jacob's Pillow, RoundAntennae, Tisch Summer Dance Festival, Sbringboard Danse Montreal/Place Des Arts
Excerpts performed at: Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage (07/20/16), ODC, San Francisco (7/8/16), Jack Crystal Theater, NYC (5/27/16) Place Des Arts, Montreal (6/10/16)
Costume Design: Chuck Wilt
About: Bronco consists of two duets. Each journeys through the development of connection between two people while questioning "masculinity" and "femininity"
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Bronco (2017)
2nd duet
Length: 10 minutes
2 Dancers: Rebecca Margolick and Jennifer Payán
World Premiere: Jack Crystal Theater (7/14-15/17)
Presented by: Jacob's Pillow, RoundAntennae, Tisch Summer Dance Festival, Sbringboard Danse Montreal/Place Des Arts
Excerpts performed at: Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out Stage (07/20/16), ODC, San Francisco (7/8/16), Jack Crystal Theater, NYC (5/27/16) Place Des Arts, Montreal (6/10/16)
Original Cast: Catherine Ellis Kirk and Rebecca Margolick
Cadet (2017)
Length: 10 minutes
1 Dancer: Chuck Wilt
World Premiere: Jack Crystal Theater (7/14-15/17)
Presented by: NYU Tisch Dance, SWELL, RoundAntennae
Excerpts performed at: Jack Crystal Theater (6/30/17), ODC, San Francisco (12/21/16)
Costume Design: Chuck Wilt
About: Cadet is a solo performed by Wilt that was inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe’s book ‘Polaroids’, and is an exercise for the self on acceptance. Cadet is considered an introduction to Fatima.
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EYE ON THE ARTS (17)
Fatima (2017)
Length: 28 minutes
5 Dancers: Daniel Alwell, Kyle Filley, Rebecca Margolick,
Jennifer Payán and Chuck Wilt
World Premiere: Jack Crystal Theater (7/14-15/17)
Presented by: RoundAntennae, SWELL, DEVICES
Excerpts performed at: ODC, San Francisco (7/8/16), Jack Crystal Theater (7/29/16), Gibney Dance Center (8/12-13/16)
Costume Design: Chuck Wilt
About: Fatima is a work for five dancers that is inspired by Paulo Coelho’s book 'The Alchemist.' The work invites the audience through scenes of play, peace, defeat and power.
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