Photo Flash: First Look at BABEL at The Theater at the 14th Street Y

Convergences Theatre Collective presents a first look into the world premiere production of BABEL, co-created by WT McRae, and co-created and directed by Jeremy Williams. Performances begin tonight, January 18, and continue through Sunday, February 5, 2017 at The Theater at the 14th Street Y (344 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003). Opening Night is Sunday, January 22 (7:30 p.m.). BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

BABEL is a physical spectacle that reinvents one of the oldest stories in the world: The Tower of Babel, told through Acrobatic Dance Theater. It calls upon diverse perspectives of the story to reveal ambition, grief, and healing within the complexity of the human condition.

The company of 24 powerful dancers build the world of the play, a sculpture garden of bodies. Sitting in three quarter round, the audience is immersed in the tower where performers climb, fly and play--building it so high that it offends the gods. The tower is destroyed, the people divided, and given separate languages so that they cannot collaborate to build again. Conflict separates humanity--yet they persevere and continue to build together despite the challenges of communication and identity. BABEL embodies the human desire to create, to connect, and to collaborate to overcome adversity building ambitious towers again and again.

The ensemble includes Leo Abel, Argelia Arreola, Casey Beauchamp, Bruce Wayne Brackett, Tad Emptage, Melissa Denize, Olney Edmondson, Michael Eisenstein, Mark Ferrando, Brooke Ferris, Nora Gustuson, Jenna Hokanson, Sydney Ippolito, Eiko Kawashima, Charlie Kilgore, Zachary Koval, Ana Carolina Lima, Erica Lindegren, Melana Lloyd, Devin McDuffee, Rafa Reyes, Marisol Kimberly Rosa-Shapiro, Liz Stanton, and Juliana Suaide.

The production features music composed by Julie Zhu and Robert Fleitz, costume design by Natalie Loveland, lighting design by Jay Ryan , and design collaboration/photography by Lloyd Mulvey.

Tickets range in price from $15-$70 and are available at www.14streety.org/babel. For more about the production, visit www.convergencescollective.org.

Photo Credit: Lloyd Mulvey

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