'Stolen Moments' Closes Kinetic Dance Theater 10/23
By: BWW News Desk Oct. 23, 2010
Kinetic Dance Theater (Joanna and Ryan Greer) will premiere a new work entitled STOLEN MOMENTS. Limited engagement begins October 9 through October 23, 2010 at the TADA! Theater, 15 West 28th Street between Broadway and Fifth Avenue, Tickets are $15. To purchase please visit www.SmartTix.com or call 212-868-4444
STOLEN MOMENTS is a dance theater piece about "the making of" a dance theater piece. The production within a production is self-aware, an abstraction of the creative process beginning with a blank canvas and ending with an attempted number set to Oliver Nelson's 1960 jazz standard, Stolen Moments.
A semi-autobiographical concept by Joanna and Ryan Greer, their combined meta-persona is played by Brad Landers, the self-producing Director/Choreographer assigned to the task. On deadline, with budgetary constraints, faced with the technical and personal challenges of hoping to make something happen, he strays from his own typical thematic through-line and finds himself having the idea in the most vulnerable way-in front of the audience.
The script is nonlinear, stage directions, lighting cues, rehearsal, as it deconstructs and evolves in real time on the Ensemble, Caren Chianese, Felix Hess, Eva Kosmos and Bianca Saltaformaggio, the Stage Manager, Kyle Leacock, and Lighting Designer, Steve O'Shea. Embracing the handed down art form, dances steal from the pedestrian grace of vaudeville, jazz, Bill Robinson, Fred Astaire, Jack Cole, while more experimental choreography endeavors to be original. The text is also both original and borrowed such as Martha Graham's famous letter to Agnes de Mille and Mickey Rooney's "let's put on a show" speech from the MGM musical, Babes on Broadway. STOLEN MOMENTS addresses the influences on the artist, the burden of responsibility and the need to create.
Joanna and Ryan Greer have been self-producing original dance, musical theater and cabaret works since 1999 with the founding of their collective, Kinetic Dance Theater which the NYer has called "Expert razzmatazz" and "Wonderfully expressive choreography. The Greer's have a great eye for detail." -The Dance Insider. Based in New York for the past nine years, they have premiered in a variety of Off Broadway and Chicago performance spaces. They have been showcased in festivals including Around the Coyote, the prestigious Dance Chicago, The World Music Festival, Bridge for Dance and Group Theatre Too's Choreographer's Canvas, as well as participating in Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Park's 365 Days / 365 Plays at The Public Theater. Joanna is also the Associate Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer for the Drama Desk award-winning TADA! Youth Theater, and Ryan makes his living in the Broadway industry as a Senior Account Executive at the advertising agency Art Meets Commerce. Their purpose as artists is to manifest a creative process for original works that experiment with music, theater and dance, especially to reinvigorate the classic musical theater and jazz dance idioms.
STOLEN MOMENTS
Created by Joanna and Ryan Greer
Saturday, October 9th 8pm
Sunday, October 10th 8pm
Saturday, October 16th 8pm
Sunday, October 17th 8pm
Friday, October 22nd 8pm
Saturday, October 23rd 8pm
Running time: 60 minutes
Tickets are $15. To purchase please visit www.SmartTix.com or call 212-868-4444
TADA! Theater is located at 15 W 28 St., 2nd Fl. (btwn Bway & 5th Ave)
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