Friday, January 10 from 8:45-9:15pm
Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 West 55th Street @ 9th Avenue
Saturday, January 11, from 5-6pm
NY Society for Ethical Culture, Adler Hall
2 West 64th Street @ Central Park West
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, Friday presented with the Dance Managers Collective and Saturday with the New York Society for Ethical Culture, 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. The solo Piece for a Northern Sky is 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; she has set Fuller-inspired works on the Paul Taylor Dance Company, been featured in the Fuller-documentary Obsessed with Light, and choreographed the Fuller biopic The Dancer. Sperling’s company is singular for a stunning body of work which furthers Fuller’s genre into contemporary ecological forms .
Friday Program: Arbor (20 min version)
Saturday Program: Arbor (excerpts), Wind Rose (excerpts), Piece for a Northern Sky (5 mins) + Conversation with the Artists
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 #14
These programs are made possible in part by an ongoing Eco-Artist-in-Residency at the New York Society for Ethical Culture