New Works: Tze Chun Dance Company Opens 12/4 At The Tank

"New Works: Tze Chun Dance Company" Friday, December 4, 2009; 9:30pm - $12, Saturday, December 5, 2009; 9:30pm - $12

Location: The Tank at 354 W. 45th Street, New York, NY 10036

About The Show- Tze Chun Dance Company (TCDC) presents three works: Parlour GamesPhase Vidcoder v2.0 (premiere), and Out and About (2008). (work in progress),

Parlour Games examines our current culture of entertainment by investigating victorian parlor games of the late 18th century. The work will eventually be performed as a series of site-specific performances that will take place in five different Brooklyn Brownstones (on the "Parlour Floors") over the course of 5 weekends March-May 2010. Phase Vidcoder v2.0 is an audio-video collaboration between TCDC and composer Daniel Iglesia, who utilizes cutting-edge technology to create multi-media performances using live video feed of dancers. In the experimental work Out and About, choreographer Tze Chun explores the new context for culture and politics being created by today's younger generation and the comfort with which they document previously private aspects of their lives. Out and About is an experiment in the limits of inhibition. Dancers consume actual alcohol over the course of the 28-minute work and, as they toy with the real effects of alcohol and its consequences both physical and social, audience members are implicated as by-standers to the self-destruction they are witnessing.

Performed by: Jules Bakshi, Tony Bordonaro, Tze Chun, Elisa Davis, Eileen Farrell, Meghan Frederick, Renuka Hines, Seth Miner, Katherine Richardson, Dana Thomas, and Ilana Webber

TCDC has presented work at numerous NYC venues such as: Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, The Tank Theater, Triskelion Arts, Riverside Theatre, Merce Cunningham Studios, CSV Center, The DUO Theater, and Minor Latham Playhouse. TCDC has been presented by the NuDance Festival, DNA's Raw Material Series, WAXWorks, 8cents Collective, CT Meets NYC Fest, the FAB! Festival and Block Party, and the Dancenow NYC Festival (three years in a row). Artistic Director Tze Chun is the recipient of a JP Morgan SOAR Grant, Puffin Foundation Grant, and Field FAR Space Grant. In Fall 2008, Chun traveled to Buenos Aires, Argentina to research the Tango as a Jerome Foundation Dance Travel and Study Fellow.

At the 2009 Dancenow Festival, TCDC premiered their most recent worked Sunderland, which Dance Insider describes as "The right blend of athletic and playful movement matched with confidently executed floorwork and partnering....with razor sharp focus [Chun's dancers are] glowing like visiting demi-gods." The Company is currently rehearsing for New Works at the Tank Theater, the 2010 Dance Conversations series at the Flea Theater, a site-specific series to premiere in Brooklyn in March 2010, as well as the company's first international tour to China and Hong Kong for the 2010 Guangdong Modern Dance Festival.

$12 show/ $25 for Support the Arts Tickets (includes ticket to the show and the post-show reception)

Presale tickets are available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/88469

About The Tank
Founded in 2003, The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists.

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