Vicky Shick's LET IT LINGER Comes to LUMBERYARD in the City Festival at The Kitchen

LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts (formerly American Dance Institute) is pleased to present Let It Linger, a new work from the renowned choreographer Vicky Shick, June 8-10 as part of the second annual LUMBERYARD in the City festival at The Kitchen. Let it Linger is a movement piece in several segments, each one with a slightly different combination of inhabitants. In the work, moments of discomfort-perhaps even the unpleasant-are interspersed with attempts at intimacy and with robust and luscious physicality.

Let It Linger will run for three performances at The Kitchen: June 8, 9 and 10 at 8pm. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at www.thelumberyard.org or 855-4LYDTIX. The Kitchen is located at 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011.

Let It Linger is a dance for five performers: Anna Azrieli, Lily Gold, Marilyn Maywald-Yahel, Mina Nishimura and Vicky Shick. The production marks Shick's first collaboration with Swiss video artist Seline Baumgartner. The sound design, by Shick's longtime collaborator Elise Kermani, with Todd Lent, includes found radio music, some of which may be familiar. Carol Mullins, another longtime collaborator, provides the lighting design. Together these elements contribute to the sense of loneliness inherent in the choreography. Indeed, Shick sees the design as an integral part of the choreography, and vice versa.

Vicky Shick has been involved with the New York dance community for over three decades-performing, choreographing and teaching. For six years she was a member of the Trisha Brown Company, during which time she received a New York Dance and Performance Award (a Bessie) for performance. Other long-term performing relationships have been with Yoshiko Chuma, Risa Jaroslow, Wendy Perron, Susan Rethorst and Sara Rudner. She has been making dances since the mid-eighties, mostly in collaboration with visual artist Barbara Kilpatrick and sound designer Elise Kermani. Their 2003 piece received a Bessie for outstanding creative achievement, and their 2013 work was nominated for a Bessie. Over the years, Shick's choreography has been presented by the Brooklyn Museum, Danspace Project, Dance Theatre Workshop (DTW, now NYLA), The Kitchen, La Mama Moves, Movement Research at Judson Church, PS 122, Sundays on Broadway, The West End Theatre and internationally at Project Art Centre in Dublin, the Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland and at Trafó Theatre in Budapest, her home town. Shick has also worked with many other performers and choreographers, most recently with Meg Harper, Eva Karczag, Jon Kinzel, Andrea Kleine, Juliette Mapp, Jodi Melnick, Robert Swinston and Cathy Weis. In 2012, she began working with Swiss video artist Seline Baumgartner, who joins her on this project. Shick has taught at many universities, for the Trisha Brown Company, and at Movement Research. She is a 2006 grant recipient from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a 2008-2009 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. This is Shick's second presentation with LUMBERYARD.

About LUMBERYARD Contemporary Performing Arts

LUMBERYARDContemporary Performing Arts, based in New York City and led by Executive and Artistic Director Adrienne Willis, is a national non-profit organization that evaluates the needs of artists throughout their creation process and fills gaps in the structures that exist to support them. LUMBERYARDwelcomes audiences of all experience levels into the inner world of the contemporary performing arts, giving them opportunities to witness the creation, as well as the performance, of new work.

Among LUMBERYARD's varied and ever-expanding offerings are an acclaimed residency program that gives artists and companies from across the U.S. housing, space, time, and other resources to develop new work before a New York or national premiere; LUMBERYARD in The City, an annual New York City festival of premieres; and the Solange MacArthur Award for New Choreography.

LUMBERYARDis developing a state-of-the-art facility in Catskill, New York. When it opens in the spring of 2019, the four-building facility on the Hudson River waterfront will allow the organization to drastically expand its activities, especially its residency program. LUMBERYARD will make a significant contribution to the village's revitalization efforts. The complex consists of a main lumberyard building in Catskill and three large adjacent barns along Catskill Creek. There will be a large, column-free, flexible theater, a lobby, administrative offices, housing for up to 20 resident artists, a chef's kitchen, an artist lounge and a public courtyard. Phase II will encompasses the three adjacent structures, which LUMBERYARD will develop in collaboration with the Village of Catskill and in line with the Village's Downtown and Waterfront Revitalization Strategy.

Each year in Catskill, LUMBERYARD will present a summer season consisting of premiere and work-in-progress performances by celebrated professional artists and companies, serving local residents and attracting tourists from across New York and beyond. From October through April, the facility will be available for collaborative residencies, subsidized and commercial rentals, and community programming

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