Lydia Johnson, a choreographer celebrated for her originality and musicality, presents her ten-member company in two world premieres, one set to music by popular jazz trio The Bad Plus, and the second to contemporary American composer Marc Mellits and Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov, whose music has inspired other powerful Johnson works this weekend, June 11-13 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street.
Repertory dances that will also be shown are the 2014 Barretts Mill Road: A Remembrance, a delicate work that captures the elegance of past days and of people who now exist only in memories. Johnson has set the dance to Mozart's Fantasia in C Minor and the Adagio from the C Minor Piano Sonata.
From 2010 is Untitled Bach, inspired simply by the intense beauty of Bach's Violin Sonatas and Partitas. As noted in The New Yorker, Untitled Bach "is notable for the use of a bench, which, in various duets, alters the physical - and thus emotional - relationship between partners." (2011)
DETAILS:
Lydia Johnson Dance
NEW YORK SEASON
Thursday/Friday/Saturday, June 11, 12, 13 at 7:30 PM
Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55 Street (Ninth Avenue)
Tickets: $25; $15 for students & dancers
Reservations: www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444
Choreography: Lydia Johnson
Dancers: Brynt Beitman, Grant Dettling, Katie Keith Dettling, Laura Di Orio, Chazz Fenner-McBride, Blake Hennessy-York, Min Seon Kim, Katie Martin-Lohiya, Sarah Pon, Oliver Swan-Jackson
Ballet Mistress: Deborah Wingert
For more about Lydia Johnson Dance, visit
www.lydiajohnsondance.org.
Pictured: Laura Di Orio and Blake Hennessy-York in Untitled Bach. Photo by Nir Arielle.
