Eva Dean Dance Celebrates 30th Anniversary with PEARL DIVING This Weekend

EVA DEAN DANCE (EDD) in association with The Dance Series at The 14th Street Y, celebrates 30 years of Eva Dance repertory with PEARL DIVING, choreographed by Artistic Director Eva Dean. Revisiting such favorites as Pumped, Welcome Back and Melba, PEARL DIVING will play tonight, October 30th at 7:30pm, Friday, October 31st at 7:30pm, Saturday, November 1st at 7:30pm and a special gala performance Sunday, November 2nd at 3:00pm. Performances will take place in the heart of the East Village, The Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003).

Artistic Director Eva Dean's expansive repertory is visually cinematic and viscerally responsive to life's gravitational ebbs and flows. Dean's oeuvre ranges from experimental dances examining the cosmos, water, and kinetic energy to educational and family friendly pieces reflecting on life's humor, humanity, and hardships. Thematically, Dean's work is diverse in scope ranging from an exposé on oppressive group behavior in Welcome Back (1991) to the subtle pull of the moon's gravitational force on water and human emotion in Pearl Diving suite (2002-2012), to the dry wit in Melba (1990).

Featuring performances by Holly Heidt, George Hirsch, Satomi Itohara, Lauren Jaeger, Ariel Lembeck, Rachel Russell, Manuela Sanchez, Sydney Schiff, Christian Serrano and Jeremiah Stanfield.

To celebrate the inauguration of Eva Dean Dance's 30th Anniversary, the company is hosting a gala immediately following the Sunday, November 2nd final performance. The gala will showcase old photographs and ephemera from EDD's archive and conversation over High Tea.

Tickets are $25 - $50 and are available online at http://www.14streety.org/labarts or by calling 646-395-4323.