Green Space's 2018-2019 Season Kicks Off Next Month

Green Space has announced a diverse roster of artists for its signature programs this September. Take Root will present an evening of work by Nicole Colbert Dance/Theatre & Logos Dance Collective on September 21st and 22nd, and Fertile Ground showcases works-in-progress by multiple dance artists on September 23rd.

TAKE ROOT, now in its 10th season, nurtures dance artists at established stages in their careers, pairing them in a split bill or full evening-length program. This monthly series supports dance makers' experimentation and growth by providing our venue, Green Space, along with full technical and marketing support to present their work to the NYC public.

September 21st & 22nd
8pm
Advance sale tickets: $15 online at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org
Tickets purchased at door: $20 cash, $22 credit card

Nicole Colbert Dance/Theatre's where have you been, where are you going? explores the journey away from and toward home as a physical, emotional and psychological place. The piece also contends with feminist, political and social identities in relationship to "home," in literal and metaphorical terms. Weaving together dance, theatre, music and text, the work utilizes personal narratives that are conciliatory as well as revelatory, sometimes attached to landscapes, to further explore multiple meanings and layers in our associations with home.

Through movement, live music and the spoken word, Curved Spacetimes: Where Friedrich Nietzsche Meets Virginia Woolf aims to make public the private experience of the flow of time and to make visible the invisible nature of time itself. Let Zarathustra and Mrs. Dalloway guide you through the eternal return while you contemplate whether to live your life all over again. Come experience past, present, future, time reversal and general relativity in action as dancers' bodies tell spacetime how to curve and curved spacetime tells dancers' bodies how to move.

Nicole Colbert is committed to creating a platform for multicultural & inter-generational performers to explore the intersectionality of dance & theatre. Her work is best described as a poetic reflection on intimate aspects of everyday life to create universal comments. Ms. Colbert's work has been shown in NYC venues such as Dixon Place, Movement Research, Mark Morris, Triskelion Arts, & The Tank, as well as in festivals such as The Illuminated Festival (Newburgh, NY), the International Dance Festival on the Volga (Yaroslavl, Russia) & several festivals in New Orleans including the Infringe Fest, New Orleans Jazz Dance Festival, Zeitgeist, & in March, 2017, she presented "Last Stop: Desire," an evening length dance/theatre adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" for the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. In June, 2017, she shared an evening length concert with Ballet Mink at Krudttønden Theatre (Copenhagen, DK) & in March, 2018 she presented an evening length concert with Ballet Mink at BAX (Brooklyn, NY).

Inspired by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's pronouncement, "What can be shown, cannot be said," Logos Dance Collective employs movement and music to explore ideas that skirt the boundary between the expressible and the inexpressible, the linguistic and the non-linguistic, the concrete and the abstract. The collective, a fluctuating assemblage comprised of dancers, choreographers, musicians, composers, designers, cartographers, and philosophers, rebels against disciplinary constraints as it investigates how ideas that are typically relegated to the ivory tower - ideas about the limits of human knowledge, the nature of consciousness, the moral and political repercussions of seeing the world from only one point of view, the beauty of mathematical equations - can be not only shown through dance, music and visual art, but also probed by creative processes that employ these mediums. Academia excels at creating scholars that can fruitfully discuss exhilaratingly challenging topics, yet this exhilaration, in most cases, can only be felt by other scholars in the same narrow field. Logos Dance Collective aims to promote a dialogue between academics, artists, and the general public in an accessible format that speaks to the senses.

FERTILE GROUND has supported emerging and established artists for 13 seasons, showcasing the work of over 50 choreographers each year. The non-curated program features 5-6 dance makers each evening and includes a post-performance discussion with wine, moderated by Green Space's Artistic Director, Valerie Green.

September 23rd
7pm
Tickets: $15 at door and online at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org

Featuring:
Elaine Tripoulas
Last Minute Applicant
Molly Kennedy
the lab
Thryn Saxon and Emily Tellier
Wonderland Wizehart

Dance Entropy Inc. created its company home, Green Space, in Long Island City in 2005. Housed in a former silk factory with magnificent views overlooking Manhattan, the lofty 2000 square foot space offers an affordable venue for the creation and practice of dance. Green Space and Dance Entropy are committed to accessibility, diversity, education, and collaboration, providing dance artists and their work space to grow in New York City through monthly performance platforms, classes and rehearsal space.

By Subway: N, Q, or the 7 to Queensboro Plaza, the first stop outside Manhattan. Take the North pedestrian bridge to the street. Look to your right, you will see Crescent St., turn right on Crescent and walk to 38th Ave. Turn left on 38th Ave. Walk one block to 24th street. Green Space is in the red brick, four-story building. (Approximately a ten-minute walk.)

Green Space is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; NYC Council Majority Leader Jimmy Van Bramer; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; The Mertz Gilmore Foundation; NYC & Company.