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Dear Friends:
As spring turns into summer, we are excited to share the following news with you. Thank you to all those who supported our sold out performance of 2125 Stanley Street at Amherst College in April, and to the wonderful reception of at the Dance Hall in Kittery, Maine. We were touched by the rich and varied audience feedback, ranging from an appreciation of "fluid, dynamic, diasporic movement, translating concepts of home and making the piece accessible" to "tactile, sensual, critical, thoughtful, present" to "the echo of past lives continues to be felt in our bones."
Saturday, June 6th, 6:30 p.m.
2125 Stanley Street in New York City
We are delighted to bring our work to Topaz Arts in Queens, NYC. Did you know more languages are spoken in Queens than in any area of its size in the world? Take the train to Woodside, come see our show Topaz and grab dinner at SriPraPhai afterwards for delicious Thai food.
Topaz Arts
Saturday June 6th, 6:30 p.m.
55-03 39th Avenue
Woodside, NY
For directions click here.
Free admission.
To reserve your seat please email: rsvp@topazarts.org
This open showing of of 2125 Stanley Street is made possible, in part, by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. with support from NYS DanceForce with funds from NYSCA Dance Program.
Labor Day Weekend 2015: Save the Date!
2125 Stanley Street will be adapted for the 2015 Vermont Performance Lab Progressive Performance Festival September 4-6th. We are so excited to return to VPL, an amazing performance incubator where we first able to develop Stanley Street in an incredible creative residency.
Funded in part by New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
About the work:
2125 Stanley Street is a contemporary dance performance exploring deeply personal notions of home. A rigorous collaboration between dancers/co-creators Dahlia Nayar, Margaret Sunghe Paek and cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster (see bios below) the performance adapts as it migrates to various spaces: a studio, a theater, a gallery, a community grange, a buddhist church. We excavate the everyday and the mundane in search of a poetic consciousness, infusing basic tasks with virtuosity and nostalgia, summoning fragmented multilingual memories and lullabies from our childhoods. Ultimately, 2125 Stanley Street aims to invite the audience into a home that unfolds through movement, sound and intimate exchange, a home that is is both familiar and yet cannot exactly be located. See a video link for the work here.
Special thanks:
Dahlia would like to thank the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Vermont and all the audience members who supported the May 9th performance with Candice Salyers in artist Alisa Dworsky's installation: Motion Line Form
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