Lydia Johnson Presents MOVING FORWARD, 4/28

Choreographer Lydia Johnson will present her Lydia Johnson Dance on the 92nd Street Y's "Moving Forward - Women Ballet Choreographers East and West" in two performances, Friday April 28.
For the Fridays at Noon performance, the Company will share the program with choreographers Gemma Bond, Cherylyn Lavagnino and Kate Thomas of New York, and Dalia Rawson and Kathryn Roszak of the Bay Area, California.
For the 8 PM Dig Dance event, other choreographers are Gemma Bond, Cherylyn Lavagnino,, and Dalia Rawson and Kathryn Roszak.

On both programs, Lydia Johnson Dance will perform "Trio Sonatas," set to the Trio Sonatas of Handel, and offering a joyous expression of the human spirit. The challenge of creating compelling architecture for these trios is what inspired Ms. Johnson to create the work for a 7-member ensemble.

Lydia Johnson's journey toward inclusion in this ballet choreographers evening is perhaps the reverse of many ballet dancemakers. She has increasingly fused her own unique movement vocabulary with the classic positions, lines and movement of ballet. Jennifer Dunning, writing in The New York Times, noted: "In dance that challenges the mind as well as the heart, Lydia Johnson often isolates and reworks components of classical ballet technique to create a sense of life flowing unhurriedly over mysterious human stories."

The clarity of the Company's ballet sensibility has been enriched by their Ballet Mistress Deborah Wingert. The former Balanchine dancer is a master teacher and one of a small group of artists selected by the Balanchine Trust to set his choreography.

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