DDF and IMMA bring together two contrasting New York-based choreographers for this shared programme.
Two-time Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Award winning choreographer/dancer Jodi Melnick and artist Burt Barr present their live collaborative performance, Fanfare.
Melnick’s meticulously designed dance creates a layered world of rhythms, gestures and motions. Her solo revolves around Barr’s installation of video, lighting and kinetic sculpture, which casts streaks of spinning light across the space and provides a kaleidoscopic setting for the dance.
“Trying to convey Melnick’s brilliance is like trying to grasp a silver trout in a running stream.” (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice)
Yasuko Yokoshi, who has also received two Bessie Awards, is originally from Hiroshima, Japan. She will perform Bell, her interpretation of Kyoganoko Musume-Dojoji (A woman and a bell at Dojoji temple), a classical Japanese dance reputed to be the most important and complex work of the Kabuki theatre repertoire.
Having trained in Tokyo with master teacher Masumi Seyama, Yokoshi will perform her unique version of this classical dance created in collaboration with Seyama.
“Yokoshi has a brilliant way of distilling her art to the barest of essences.” Gia Kourlas, Time Out New York
