June Events at Green Space Announced

Green Space has announced its full programming lineup for June. See the full schedule below!

Green Space presents Take Root with ZEST Collective and Undertow Dance onJune 9th & 10th&Fertile Ground New Works Showcase on June 11th

Green Space
37-24 24th St., (bet. 37 & 38th Ave.)
Long Island City, NY 11101
Green Space is pleased to offer a diverse roster of new/emerging artists in June.
Fertile Ground will present new work by various artists and Take Root will present an evening of work by ZEST Collective and Undertow Dance.

"Green Space, an innovated dance venue...has become part of Queens' cultural fabric" - Times Ledger
TAKE ROOT, now in its 8th season, aids in the continued development and performance of new dance work of various aesthetics by providing choreographers with the opportunity to be produced in a full-length or paired evening of work. This once a month series supports dance makers by providing our venue, Green Space, with full technical and marketing support.

June 9th & 10th, 2017
8:00pm
Admission: $15
Tickets are available at the door or online at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org
About the Work ZEST Collective: On The Map is a performance art project and testimony that immigrants define the essence of the American - and global - experience. In this new work, people of all races and walks of life will come together to learn about uncommon pasts and shared present. Punctuated by poetry and iconic speeches about abandoning fear, ZEST Collective's new ballet emphasizes strength derived from struggle. On The Map pays homage to those who fight sensitively to seek and protect personal liberty. Join us as we reveal the tales of separated families, veterans, undocumented workers, and history of 'travelers' to this country, by free will or force and the importance of religious and political freedom.
Undertow Dance: Excerpt from Pitch Dark no. 1 (a breakdown) dives into a world of chance encounters and simmering frustration. Collaborative and investigative, this work for four dancers is the impossibility of ever fully breaking emotional patterns, as the past reasserts itself.

Company/ Choreographer BiographiesZEST Collective: ZEST Collective Contemporary Performance Art is Inwood / Washington Heights, NYC's premiere Dance Company. Founded November 02, 2013 by Artistic Director Gentry Isaiah George, ZEST continues to create movement literature that speaks to the diversity of our world. Fueled by the creative investigation of movement, ZEST creates collaborative opportunities for performing, and visual Artists. The company has had performances at Summer Stage, Harlem Stage Gatehouse Theater, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Dixon Place, Brooklyn Ballet, The Alchemical Theater Laboratory, Ulster Performing Arts Center, Madiba Harlem, Marcus Garvey Park, Whitebox Art Center, Fort Tyron Park, and the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood NYC.
Undertow Dance: Undertow Dance is making some of its first moves, with direction from Nicole Loeffler-Gladstone. Nicole is a writer, curator, performer and choreographer who is interested in dismantling capitalism.

FERTILE GROUND is a monthly new works showcase for emerging and established artists now in its 11th season, producing the work of over 50 choreographers each year. This non-curated performance event features five or six choreographers each evening and includes a post-performance discussion with wine, moderated by Green Space's Artistic Director, Valerie Green.
June 11th, 20177pmAdmission: $12Tickets are available at the door or online at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org

Featuring:Barbara Mahler's DancesGio KusanagiIlluminations Dance CompanyLe MoulinRamona Sekulovic

Dance Entropy Inc. created its company home base, Green Space, in Long Island City, in November 2005. Green Space is a spacious 2000 sq. foot venue housed in a former silk factory with magnificent views overlooking Manhattan. Green Space offers choreographers, dancers and the local community an affordable professional dance rehearsal, class, and performance space in New York City.

By Subway: N, W, 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 and The Mertz Gilmore Foundation.