Fly-By-Night Dance Theater Presents Their 10th Anniversary Season Of Performances

Fly-by-Night Dance Theater Presents 10th Anniversary Season Performances Labor Day Weekend Sunday, September 6th & Monday, September 7th, 2009 with 2 Shows Each Day @ 2 PM and 7 PM

The JCC in Manhattan Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Family Auditorium 334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street New York, NY 10023

The program will feature two premiere works and repertory favorites from the past ten seasons. All the works involve Artistic Director Julie Ludwick's Modern Dance approach to low-flying aerial apparatus with works that are expressive, athletic and musical. Two composers will also be featured: Joshua Geisler, who will perform live with his trio, and Ken Pierson. The premiere works include Slippery When Wet with Geisler's electric guitar sending Ludwick snaking through the air and along the floor in wheeled shoes, and Streams, set to a piano score by Pierson that leads a trio of dancers through different stages of water - from curving streams to oceans of ice to waves of flight. Fly-by-Night dancers include Janet Aisawa, Summer Tennyson Baldwin, Elizabeth Disharoon, Marissa Livanna Maislen and Julie Ludwick.

This past Spring Fly-by-Night presented their 5th NYC Aerial Dance Festival to a sold-out crowd at the JCC in Manhattan. The company has been repeatedly funded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Puffin Foundation and Meet the Composer. Additional funding has been received from JP Morgan Chase, The Cartwheel Foundation, The Francis Alexander Family Fund, Fleet Bank, The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NOMAA), and The Jerome Foundation.

Admission:
ADVANCE TICKETS through TheaterMania (212) 352-3101 www.theatermania.com
ADULT ADVANCE TICKETS $25 / ADULT TICKETS AT THE DOOR $35
YOUTH 18 YEARS AND UNDER FREE (with purchase of one ADULT/YOUTH ticket)
Box Office will open one hour before the performance
ALL TICKETS ARE FOR OPEN SEATING

Fly-by-Night presents shows that are appealing to audiences of all ages because they are visually captivating to both children and adults, yet the emotional underpinnings of the choreography often entice viewers on another level.
This show is recommended for ages 10 and up.

Julie Ludwick, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Fly-by-Night Dance Theater began presenting her work in New York in Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks series. Since then her work has been presented in numerous full-production venues including The Flea Theater, Riverside Theatre's Nu Dance Festival, PS 122, Dance Alliance's Performance Mix at Dixon Place, and Mabou Mines Theater as well as a number of alternative venues such as Smack Mellon Gallery and Pier 63. Ludwick's work for theater includes Mapou Productions' How Papa Noel Forgot Haiti starring Danny Glover at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and The Circus Show at the University of Missouri's Graduate School for Theater. Her Trapeze- Dance classes were recently featured in Time Out NY and on AfterEd TV's online documentary as an outstanding alum of Teachers College, Columbia University.

Joshua Geisler(Composer and Musician) is a young master of Bansuri, the North Indian Bamboo Flute. He weaves togther Indian Classical Music and Jazz. He has innovated the playing technique and construction of the bansuri which is explored in his book, The Chromatic Bansuri, with details of his unique fingering system that enables the bansuri to play with any style of music. He has repeatedly received funding from the American Institute of Indian Studies and The New York State Council for the Arts. He has worked with many great artists in various genres and performed with several masters of Indian Classical Music such as Pandi Raghunath Seth, Steve Gron, Pandit Vikash Maharaj, Fazal Qureshi, Sabir Khan, and Ramesh Mishra. In popular music he has worked with the likes of Paul Simon and Josh Groban.

Ken Pierson (Composer and Musician) has written numerous compositions for dance, theater, and the concert stage which have been performed nationally and internationally. His works for dance have been funded numerous times by Meet the Composer. Significant collaborators include choreographers Kristofer Storey, Annabella Mazzoni as well as Julie Ludwick. He has done multiple arrangements for the Kiskeya Orchestra of works by Haitian composer Jean Jean Pierre for performances at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center.

This project is made possible in part with public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Additional Support is from The Francis Alexander Family Fund, and The Cartwheel Foundation.

 

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