Valerie Green/Dance Entropy to Present 'Impermanent Landscape'

In celebration of Green Space's 10-year anniversary Valerie Green/Dance Entropy presents Impermanent Landscape, an evening length performance in the round. Green Space, March 17-19 at 8pm and 20 at 5pm. Admission: Pre sale tickets $20 available on-line at www.DanceEntropy.org. Tickets at the door $25.

Impermanent Landscape (world premier) is an evening length performance in the round inspired by the ideas of cubism, perspective, perception, and impermanence. Breaking the 4th wall and moving choreography outside of the traditional stage and audience formats, Impermanent Landscape features the geometry and architecture of overlapping bodies, creating it's own personal landscape surrounded by the visual art installation Fragile City by Priscilla Stadler. Music by Martyn Axe creates a sonic landscape highlighted by sound sensors triggered by a live video feed.

"Green's artistry is fully compelling" says Molly Marinik, Theater is Easy

Impermanent Landscape is part of a larger project centered on the concept of changing the external visual art environment to shift the perception and context of how one view's the work. Each performance of Impermanent Landscape is unique to each venue, based on the configuration of the gallery and how the dance might be re-arranged to fit within the environment, the exhibition itself, and the placement of sound sensors.

Choreography by Valerie Green, Performed by Frank Leone, Kristin Licata, Jonathan Matthews, Yayoi Suzuki and Hana Ginsburg Tirosh, Fragile City Art Installation by Priscilla Stadler, Music by Martyn Axe, Text by Stephanie Davis, Lighting Design by Nessa Rodriguez.

Impermanent Landscape is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Late-Stage Production Stipend.

Dance Entropy is a professional not-for-profit modern dance company founded in 1998. The company performs in NYC, tours and teaches both domestically and abroad, while featuring a multi-ethnic cast of 8 talented dancers. Dance Entropy supports the vision of Artistic Director Valerie Green, who creates stage and site-specific work. A significant part of the company's mission is to use creation, performance, and education in locations and communities where the content of the work will have the greatest impact. The company created their home studio, Green Space in LIC, Queens in 2005. Green Space serves the dance community by providing an affordable and welcoming environment for rehearsals, classes, and performances.

www.DanceEntropy.org and www.GreenSpaceStudio.org

Valerie Green, Artistic Director, has been an active dancer, choreographer and teacher in the New York City dance community for 20 years. She created her own company, Dance Entropy in 1998, adding a permanent company home in 2005 called Green Space. Green Space serves the dance community by providing an affordable and welcoming environment for rehearsals, classes, and performances. To date Ms. Green has created 28 dances and 8 evening length works. Her choreography has been seen throughout NYC and has also toured to various venues throughout the US. Internationally she has taught and performed in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Austria, France, Italy, Greece, Russia, India, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Guatamala and Canada. As a guest artist, Valerie has received commissions from Texas State University, BITEF Theater in Belgrade, Serbia, and Theater Alternativa in Tirana, Albania. She has also taught at the UNLV, Texas State, LaGuardia Community College, University of Nanterre, France, and at the Faculty of Drama & Art in Belgrade, Serbia and Sarajevo, Bosnia. Valerie's choreographic work and teaching style is influenced by her formative years working with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, her certification in Body/Mind Fitness and her undergraduate work at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Priscilla Stadler is a visual artist who works primarily with drawing, installation, and human interaction. Since 2011 she has developed Fragile City, an ongoing series of dyed cheesecloth buildings, for sites that range from street corners to galleries to a 19^th century barn. She received grants from the NY City Council through the Queens Council on the Arts grant for her projects The Oracle of Random Quotes and FAVORS. Her work has appeared in the Queens Museum, the Fiterman Art Center, Queens College, Space Gallery, Mess Hall (Chicago), Contemporary Artists Center (Troy, NY) and many other venues. Stadler often collaborates with the public, artists, and community organizers as a way to develop dialog and connection, and to use art as a tool for creative social justice.

Martyn Axe has been a Composer and Music Director for over 25 years. Born in Leicester, England, he moved to London to study Composition, Piano and French Horn at the Royal Academy Of Music. After working around London as a Music Theater Director and composer, he moved to Europe for 10 years performing and writing new Musicals and concerts. He briefly moved back to England to Music Direct on the West End before moving to New York to work on Broadway where he still is. Martyn has always felt an affinity with modern dance, studying many of the great American composers. He has composed music for contemporary dance companies in the UK, and is very excited to be working with Dance Entropy on their latest piece "Impermanent Landscape". Past credits include Sweeney Todd, Cats, Evita, and Mamma Mia. He is currently performing a new Dance Musical called 'Trip Of Love' at Stage 42 in New York.

Photos by Rodney Zagury

Valerie Green / Dance Entropy presents Impermanent Landscape
March 17, 18, & 19 @ 8pm and March 20 @ 5pm at Green Space
Tickets on Sale Now!

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Jill Michalsky, Programs Manager
Dance Entropy Inc.
Green Space Studio
37-24 24th St. #301
Long Island City, NY 11101
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