Marcos Duran Performance Group and More Set for Tonight at Green Space

Green Space is pleased to offer a diverse roster of new/emerging artists in February.

Fertile Ground will present new work by various artists and Take Root will present an evening of work by Marcos Duran Performance Group and Barbara Mahler's Dances.

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TAKE ROOT, now in its 6th 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.

February 20th & 21st, 2015
8:00pm
Admission: $15
Tickets are available at the door or online at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org

About the Work:

Marcos Duran Performance Group: Around The Fortress is about connection. Seven performers, including choreographer Marcos Duran, embark on a 40 minute journey through isolation, imagination and revelry. Inspired at the beginning of new love, this work confronts the difficulties of breaking down a lifetime of emotional and psychological walls that hinder our ability to experience the depths of vulnerability and intimacy. As Marcos' first full length work and first collaboration with composer Adam Lahm, it will serve as a landmark in his choreographic career, especially as it culminates his first decade as a choreographer and director.

Barbara Mahler's Dances: Barbara Mahler will present three dances, a trio and two solos which will include the artistry of Jamie Graham, Alissa Lazaro, Trina Mannino, and Ms. Mahler. The program re-visits two older works - "Etched Sketches" and "Uno" as well as "Precipice", a solo created with the support of New Dance Alliance's Lift-Off program. All three dances create intricate tapestry's with the environment, relying on the language of movement and music/sound alone. Bartok's "Mikrokosmos", Sarah Williams' "EM2" will accompany, as well as a sound score by Ms. Mahler.

Company/ Choreographer Biographies:

Marcos Duran Performance Group: Marcos Duran is a New York City based choreographer, performer, and teacher. He has improvised with movement pathways for over 15 years has danced across international stages, in site-specific work, and on film. In 2012 he formed Marcos Duran Performance Group, a cast of diverse individuals who are dedicated to physical expression. Investigating the drawers of our minds, we search for stories (un) known. With these stories, we dance to know each other more. We dance to know you more, too. It is our mission to tell stories based on fact and fiction in order to express the universal truths that make us human. They has shared New York City performances at 92nd St Y, 14th St Y, Judson Church through Movement Research, Dixon Place, Center for Performance Research, Triskelion Arts, Greenspace, Brooklyn Rooftop Series, Hatch, WAX and Mascher Co-Op in Philadelphia. He was a 2013/2014 Mellon Resident at Center for Performance Research and continues to create dance theater work while maintaining a private Pilates practice.

Barbara Mahler: Barbara Mahler is a choreographer, performer, movement educator and bodyworker, working in the NYC dance community for 30 years. She graduated from Hunter College, where she began her dance training under the tutelage of Professor Dorothy Vislocky and went on to receive her MFA in dance and choreography in 2007. Barbara travels extensively teaching workshops in Klein Technique, performing and creating dance works. Contemporary dance technique, composition, improvisation, choreography and performance have all played major roles in the focus and experience of her work. Her small and intimate dances/choreography have been presented across the globe - London, (Tangent, Circuit-Est) Montreal, Canada; Chile, (Danse Alliansen)- Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden, (Full Moon Festival) Finland, Denmark, and many venues in New York, as well as across the US and has also traveled to Iceland, Glasgow, and Berlin. Since 2004, Barbara has been an ongoing faculty member with Movement Research, and The Staten Scenekunst Skole in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the recipient of a BAX Award in Arts and Arts Education 2013. These awards were designed to honor individuals in the arts who have revealed and transformed our creative world. Barbara also maintains a private practice in Zero Balancing and other hands on healing modalities. www.barbaramahler.net.

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FERTILE GROUND is a monthly new works showcase for emerging and established artists now in its 9th 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 and cheese, moderated by Green Space's Artistic Director, Valerie Green.

February 22nd, 2015
7pm
Admission: $10
Tickets are available at the door or online at www.GreenSpaceStudio.org

Featuring:

- Amaris Dance

- Community Dance Project NYC

- Hazel Lever

- Kelsey Grills

- People Dancing Company

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Green Space is located at 37-24 24th St., (bet. 37 & 38th Ave.), Long Island City, NY 11101. For more information, go to www.GreenSpaceStudio.org.

DANCE ENTROPY / GREEN SPACE - 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.

DIRECTIONS - 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.)

Photo Credit: Miguel Suero