LUMBERYARD Postpones One Of Sixty-Five Thousand Gestures Due to Performer Injury

LUMBERYARD is postponing performances of Jodi Melnick's lauded 2012 solo One of Sixty-Five Thousand Gestures due to a back injury recently suffered by the choreographer. New dates for the performances, which were scheduled to take place August 3-5 at Hudson Hall as part of LUMBERYARD's Under Construction summer festival, will be announced soon.

Of the postponement, Melnick said, "I have had a long artistic history with LUMBERYARD, and I have been excited and looking forward to sharing this work with the vibrant communities of Hudson and Catskill, New York. This is a small 'bump in the road,' and my company and performers, Sara Mearns and Jared Angel of New York City Ballet, are all eager and committed to reschedule this performance."

Melnick's One of Sixty-Five Thousand Gestures / NEW BODIES is one of eight wide-ranging productions comprising LUMBERYARD's Under Construction summer festival, which, over the course of this summer, fills venues surrounding the organization's highly anticipated new facility in Catskill, New York. The three works presented in the festival so far-Urban Bush Women's Scat! (June 29-July 1), Elizabeth Streb and STREB Extreme Action's SEA (July 6-8), and Bridgman|Packer Dance's Truck (July 13-14)-have all sold out.

The festival continues with Dark Matter Messages, from d. Sabela grimes, a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist that The Los Angeles Times calls "one of a mere handful of artists who make up the vanguard of hip-hop fusion." Performances will take place from July 27-29 at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill. LUMBERYARD presents veteran New York choreographer John Jasperse's new work Hinterland, supported with a LUMBERYARD residency, August 17-19 at Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House. Ishmael Houston-Jones's Variations on Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd, co-directed by Miguel Gutierrez, and created in collaboration with Nick Hallett and Jenifer Monson, comes to Hudson Hall August 24-26. The season concludes with a performance at LUMBERYARD (September 1 & 2) that pairs Savion Glover, whom The New Yorker has deemed "the greatest tap virtuoso of our time, perhaps of all time," with esteemed jazz drummer Marcus Gilmore.

The Under Construction summer festival represents the fullest realization to date of LUMBERYARD's unique dual promise: to make transformative contributions both to the cultural landscape and economic health of Upstate New York and to the field of contemporary performance in New York City and the U.S. by bringing renowned and emerging artists across the performing arts landscape to Catskill for out-of-town premieres, often incubated through LUMBERYARD's signature technical residencies.

Construction continues on LUMBERYARD's state-of-the-art, multi-building campus, opening for residencies and public performances this fall. The facility will include a column-free, 5,500-square-foot theater that can be reconfigured to realize the visions of America's most exciting performing artists, and to replicate a variety of New York City stages, as well as a lobby, artist housing and a 5,000-square-foot studio and event space. It will be the first center in the U.S. dedicated to providing the space, time and other resources that professional contemporary dance and performing artists need to make their work premiere-ready.

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