THERE MIGHT BE OTHERS to Premiere at New York Live Arts in March

New York Live Arts presents the world premiere of There Might Be Others, a collaborative dance and music performance inspired by composer Terry Riley's seminal work In C. Directed and choreographed by Rebecca Lazier, There Might Be Others features an international cast of 15 dancers and is performed with a live score by Dan Trueman in collaboration with acclaimed ensembles Mobius Percussion and So? Percussion. Performances are Wednesday to Saturday, March 16?19, at 7:30pm, at New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street, in Manhattan.

There Might Be Others examines the role of presence, performer agency, and collective decision-making to create emergent composition. It builds on traditions of open work in dance and music, in which performers compose in real time with predetermined content. Riley's In C, with its interlocking modules of music, indeterminacy, and ability to house diverse musical genres, catalyzed Lazier and Trueman's collaboration. With There Might Be Others, the artists have created music and dance modules ranging from rhythmic sequences to sustained gestures, distilled abstraction to camp theatricality, interactive games to isolated tasks, and the performers will choose the order in performance. Ultimately, the piece stages negotiation and celebrates the beauty of a diverse community of performers negotiating aesthetic impulses across perpetually changing contexts.

There Might Be Others embraces the global characteristics of In C and was developed over a two-year period during residencies in Turkey, Canada, and Poland with merged casts of New York dancers and local performers. Selected members from each country join the New York premiere. The project features costume design by Lazier's longtime collaborator Mary Jo Mecca and lighting design by the award-winning Davison Scandrett, who will create a reservoir of lighting environments he can call upon in performance, following the same score of the performers. Dramaturgy is by Naomi Leonard, a professor of aerospace engineering at Princeton University who specializes in group decision-making and collective motion.

There Might Be Others is performed by New York dancers Asli Bulbul, Simon Courchel, Natalie Green, raja feather kelly, Cori Kresge, Christopher Ralph, Anna Schön, and Saúl Ulerio. Joining the cast from Poland are Agnieszka Kryst, Jan Lorys, Ramona Nagabczynska, Pawel Sakowicz. Rhonda Baker and Sara Coffin from Canadian partner Mocean Dance join the cast; and from Turkey Tan Temel, artistic director of TORK Dance, also joins the project.

Musicians include Mobius Percussion (David Degge, Mika Godbole, Yumi Tamashiro, Frank Tyl), Alex Appel, Dylan Greene, Luz Carime Santa-Coloma, Jessica Tsang, So? Percussion (Eric Cha-Beach, Joah Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting) (3/16, 3/17, 3/18) and members of Mantra Percussion (3/19).

Tickets start at $15 and can be purchased through New York Live Arts' box office at 212-924-0077 / www.newyorklivearts.org. Box office hours: Monday-Friday, 1pm to 9pm, Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 9pm.