Mystical Feet Company Will Premiere THE DANCING ROOM at Arts On Site in December

Mystical Feet Company/Yehuda L. Hyman will present a December 2023 dance/theater performances of a new full-length solo performance created by award-winning playwright/actor/choreographer Yehuda L. Hyman, directed and developed by Michael Leibenluft. The Dancing Room will be presented at Arts On Site,

12 St. Marks Place, Thursday, December 14 - through Sunday, December 17, 2023.

Tickets are on sale now at: www.artsonsite.org/tickets

Rehearsal sneak peak: https://vimeo.com/861483083

Mystical Feet Company/Yehuda L. Hyman

THE DANCING ROOM - World Premiere

an intimate vaudeville/memoir/transformation dance performed by Yehuda L. Hyman with clarinetist Margot Leverett

December 14 & 16 at 7:30 PM

December 15 & 17 at 2 PM

Tickets: $30

Running time: 90 minutes. No intermission.

Brooklyn-based Mystical Feet Company, follows up its acclaimed 2022 production of "Secret of the Possible," with "The Dancing Room." The Dancing Room is a memoir/vaudeville/dreamscape in which Yehuda L. Hyman invites the audience into the deep transformational possibilities of Jewish mystical dance, as he enacts stories in movement and text about: passionate artists, 18th-century Rebbes, and everyday people who danced a path from sadness to ecstasy. Live music is performed by acclaimed Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett.

The Dancing Room is directed and developed by Obie-Award winning director, Michael Leibenluft and with live music by acclaimed Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett. Kate Marvin is Sound Designer and Daisy Long is Lighting Designer.

CREDITS

Written, performed and choreographed by Yehuda L. Hyman

Directed and developed by Michael Leibenluft

Live music performed by Margot Leverett

Sound Design by Kate Marvin

Lighting Design by Daisy Long

ABOUT YEHUDA HYMAN

Yehuda is the Artistic Director of Mystical Feet Company. He was born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Poland and Russia. Most of his plays originate in the movement of the body. Original plays include The Mad Dancers, Center of the Star, Swan Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Swan Lake Calhoun), David in Shadow and Light (co-written with composer Daniel Hoffman), Max, Rapunzel and the Night, Tequila, Scenes from a Tango (co-written with John Dantona), The Mad 7, The Mar Vista, and Secret of the Possible. His work has been produced at theaters including McCarter Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, San Diego Repertory, Cornerstone Theater of Los Angeles, Theater J, Mixed Blood, and Actor's Theatre of Louisville. He choreographed Paula Vogel's Indecent at the Guthrie Theater (directed by Wendy C. Goldberg). He has acted in plays in New York City with Target Margin Theater, The Civilians, and Rady & Bloom, and danced in the 2017 Fire Island Dance Festival (in a piece choreographed by Lorin Latarro). He has choreographed and performed with Dances for a Variable Population, working with a population of senior dancers on the Lower East Side. His honors include the Kennedy Center New American Plays Award (for The Mad Dancers), the NEA/TCG Playwright-in Residence Grant, Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis Jerome Fellowship, and LABA Fellow/14th St Y. He currently teaches Devised Theater and acting at Manhattan School of Music. His essay, "Three Hasidic Dances" was first published in Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance (Wayne State University Press. Editor: Judith Brin Ingber) and re-published in Dance in America, A Reader's Anthology (Editor: Mindy Aloff; Foreword by Robert Gottlieb), Library of America. He translates the work of German poet Eva-Maria Berg into English. His article about his dance protest in Germany, "Jew in the Pool," was published in Mahol Akshav/Dance Today in Israel. A revised and expanded version of this article, 'Dancing on Smoke" was published by Oxford University Press in December 2021 in the anthology, "The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance." He lives and dances in Brooklyn.