GRAND FINALE
Sunday, June 30 @ 6pm
Performances by:
▪ Ali Pfleger and Artists, NY
▪ Cori Marquis + the Nines [IX], NY
▪ Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
▪ Hoon Dance Company, Korea
▪ Mending Dance Theater, Taiwan
▪ Freespace Dance, NJ
▪ Ara Dance Project, NY
▪ WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY
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Ali Pfleger and Artists
Arm’s Length
Body Horror was founded in 2023 by Ali Pfleger and Aaron Girard. The collective seeks to create work that expands the possibilities of contemporary dance through a strong sense of collaboration between Ali and Aaron and a strong emphasis on utilizing the dancer's unique talents. We strive to showcase each dancer's individualized training, facility and experiences to create so that the work extends into their being. In cultivating work highly specific to each cast and the creators themselves, the possibilities of what can be created give rise to a culmination of experiences that is captured and shared.
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Light-Print
Jesse Obremski (he/him), a native New Yorker, Japanese-American, graduated from LaGuardia High School and The Juilliard School with additional development at The School at Jacob’s Pillow with multiple years at The Ailey School, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts, and Springboard Danse Montréal.
Obremski has his award-winning choreography presented nationally and internationally. Obremski is the Founder and Artistic Director of Obremski/Works, which notably had its debut at Lincoln Center through The Dance Films Associations presented by HBO. Obremski also has had his work performed by Gibney Company, BYU Contemporary Dance Theater, Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, MOVE|NYC|, Sacred Heart University, and various others, and in the United States, Malaysia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, and Prague. Obremski served on the Executive Committee of the Junior Committee for Dance/NYC (2021-2022) and, after four years of being on the Board, now serves as Associate Executive Director of Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance.
Obremski/Works
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Cori Marquis + the Nines [IX]
Make Well
Cori Marquis is a NYC-based choreographer, dancer and theatermaker. She has created nearly a dozen short works and two evening length pieces presented in NYC, Portland, Detroit, Boston, Martha's Vineyard, Phoenix, Stanford, and more. She’s been an artist in residence at The Yard, DMAC, and Chen Dance Center. She spent 6 years as one-third of the comedic dance trio LMnO3 (Deborah Lohse, Cori Marquis + Donnell Oakley). Cori also currently dances with Guggenheim Fellows and Bessie Award winning choreographers Jane Comfort (since 2013) and Doug Elkins (since 2010). BA: Stanford University
In her smooth, musical and soulful solo, Make Well, Marquis explores a popping, threading, silky body trying to restart, re-emerge, and navigate the internal and external forces jockeying for attention and redirection.
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Alison Cook Beatty Dance
LACRIMIS (An Excerpt)
Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a NYC-based non-profit modern dance company founded in 2012 by Artistic Director and choreographer Alison Cook-Beatty. Having recently celebrated its 11th anniversary, and with growing multi-organizational grant support and commissioned works, the company continues to tour and perform its dynamic repertoire to critical acclaim throughout the United States. Alison Cook Beatty Dance recently was in residence at The Egg in CT and Windhover Performing Arts Center in MA with support from the New England Foundation For The Arts Touring Grant. The Company was honored to perform at The Hudson Valley Dance Festival 2023 with Dancers Responding to AIDS and Broadway Cares. The Company is honored to perform in the Dumbo Dance Festival 2024!
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Hoon Dance Company
Three Women
Hoon Dance Company was founded in 1995 by Tae-Hoon Kim. The dance company based in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province. Hoon Dance Company participated in the 2002 Busan Asian Games, the 2002 World Cup, and 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Additionally, the company invited performances overseas, including in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, and Thailand Etc. Hoon Dance Company is promoting the revitalization of Korea's art world. The collaboration between creative choreographer and energetic young dancers is contributing to creating an environment where everyone is together.The tendency of Hoon Dance Company's works has been to help the audience find the true meaning of life.
2. Dance Piece Information:
There are three women. They don't seem to lack anything on the outside. But they have an invisible bond. So lonely.The choreographer choreographs the scenes of women overcoming it. This is not just a story of three women on stage. This is the story of all of us who can overcome any barrier. The dance work expresses the glass ceiling placed on women's lives due to the roles and restrictions imposed on them.
© Joo Bin Kim
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Mending Dance Theater
Transparent Alternative Street Talk, New Theater Version
Founded in 2014, Mending Dance Theater producing forward-looking, cross-domain dance works that link deeply with society, developing an aesthetics full of dramatic tension and poetic quality in the contemporary dance theater.
“Alternative Talk”(黑白話) is pronounced in Taiwanese. It consists of many people’s dialogues and their soliloquies and is experimented in Taiwanese rap. This work fuses the contemporary body languages of modern dance and street dance, presenting one of Taiwan’s features: multiple cultures. In this performance, Mending Dance Theater creates a new story in Taiwanese, turning the feelings of watching the disappearance of memory and culture into dances from the perspective of urban youth. In addition to Mending Dance Theater's expertise in the fusion of the body experiences of modern dance and street dance, the combination of a poetic atmosphere, soundscapes, and Taiwanese dialogues in rap with funk rhythm create a fresh experience of both strangeness and closeness to the audience.
© Chiu Jia-Ching
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Freespace Dance
Untitled New Work
Freespace Dance, under the artistic direction of Donna Scro Samori, a former principal dancer with the Nikolais/Louis Dance Company and a founding member of Sean Curran Company, is renowned for creating emotionally driven work with a bold, athletic signature style. The company's performance credits include Citi Center, Ailey Citigroup, DTW, Joyce SoHo, Peridance, St. Mark's Church, NJPAC, SOPAC, OSPAC, Fringe Festival Edinburgh, Solo/Duo Festival, DUMBO, and Jacob’s Pillow. “We Are….” a new work that explores the different parts that we play in relationship to each other and the world we live in. FSD is grateful for the following support; The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, NJSCA, Hyde & Watson Foundation, NJ Cultural Trust, and New Music USA.
© John Herr
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Ara Dance Project
Won't Let Go
Ara Dance Project illumines the intersection of the human and the transcendent through the beauty of movement. Founded on the belief that art should inspire us to become more than what we are, we produce contemporary dance works that are poignant and compelling to a broad audience. What we present grows out of an atmosphere where dancers are encouraged to explore, to contribute, to laugh, to find healing, and to be human. Ara Dance Project was founded by award-winning choreographer/dancer Ashley Taylor, whose work has been presented by Ballet Theatre of Maryland, VidaDance Company, University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance, and in independently produced concerts. “Won’t Let Go” is a contemporary duet depicting the choice to hold on to a relationship in spite of its challenges.
© Ashley Taylor
WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company
"iyouuswe II"
Founded by Korean-born Young Soon Kim in 1988, the WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company is dedicated to inspiring audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. We constantly strive to be a potent stimulus for progress and evolution within the dance/arts world. By producing dance concerts, festivals, and educational activities, WHITE WAVE Dance provides both nascent and seasoned choreographers/companies with an encouraging environment where they can create, collaborate, and present new works in the undisputed capital of world dance, New York City.
© Steven Pisano
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