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VERTIGO DANCE COMPANY
Mana (adapted for Fall for Dance)
Choreography by Noa Wertheim
ABOUT THIS PIECE
Eight dancers in flowing black garments conjure hypnotic visions in this 2009 work from Jerusalem-based Vertigo Dance Company, one of Israel’s most revered and dynamic dance troupes. Choreographed by company co-founder Noa Wertheim, Mana has been declared a masterwork by critics in Israel and abroad.
COMPANY BIO
Vertigo Dance Company is a highly acclaimed Israeli dance company that has performed around the globe and has received numerous awards in Israel and abroad. Founded in 1992 by Adi Sha’al and Noa Wertheim, Vertigo performs innovative contemporary pieces relating to current social realities. Vertigo also functions as a dance school in Jerusalem that offers classes and workshops for a wide audience (including a special program for disabled dancers). Vertigo represents international standards of artistic excellence, with a social and community touch. This performance marks the company's Fall for Dance debut. |
DREW JACOBY
Bloom/i>
Choreography by Andrea Miller, Artistic Director of Gallim Dance
WORLD PREMIERE
ABOUT THIS PIECE
New Work, a world premiere choreographed by Gallim Dance Artistic Director Andrea Miller, imagines a ballerina transformed into wind. Created for contemporary ballet dancer Drew Jacoby, seen here in her Fall for Dance debut, this solo is set to new music by Radiohead.
COMPANY BIO
Drew Jacoby was born in Boise, Idaho, and received her later training at San Francisco Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She is a 2005 Princess Grace Award recipient and has worked with Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, Sylvie Guillem, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Dutch National Ballet, and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company. In 2008 she co-founded her independent partnership, Jacoby & Pronk, with former Dutch National Ballet star Rubinald Pronk and was featured on the August 2009 cover of Dance Magazine. In 2010 she founded DancePulp, a media website featuring video interviews with high profile dance industry professionals with distribution to major TV websites, including Hulu.com. |
JESSICA LANG DANCE
Among the Stars
Choreography by Jessica Lang
N.Y. PREMIERE
ABOUT THIS PIECE
Among the Stars is inspired by Tanabata, the Japanese star festival. The piece celebrates the meeting of two lovers, separated by the Milky Way, who are allowed to meet only once a year on theseventh day of the seventh lunar month.
COMPANY BIO
Jessica Lang Dance is a newly formed NYC-based dance organization under the direction and vision of Jessica Lang. Since 1999, Lang has created more than 75 works on companies including The Joffrey Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Ailey II and ABT II, among many others. She has also received commissions from the Dallas Museum of Art and Guggenheim Museum, as well as from numerous universities and prestigious institutions. Lang is the recipient of a 2010 Joyce Theater Residency, generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which enabled her to launch her own group, Jessica Lang Dance, in the summer of 2011. This performance marks the company's Fall for Dance debut. |
RICHARD ALSTON DANCE COMPANY
Roughcut
Choreography by Richard Alston
LIVE MUSIC
U.S. PREMIERE
ABOUT THIS PIECE
Richard Alston’s contemporary classic Roughcut is danced to the cascading peals of Steve Reich’s music. It is a dance about vitality and, as its name implies, it does not bother to be tidy at the edges. But the throw-away energy of the movement is anchored by a very specific use of the body’s weight and pull, and this emphasis has to be there properly to articulate and syncopate the music’s intricate rhythm. Roughcut is a euphoric display of pure energy.
COMPANY BIO
Richard Alston Dance Company has grown into the UK’s most avidly followed modern dance company. The company offers a unique combination of the innovative and the entertaining in the work of its Artistic Director, Richard Alston. Richard Alston Dance Company’s reputation on the British dance scene is now increasingly being matched overseas. Music plays a vital part in the company’s identity and since its inception Alston has used the work of a diverse range of composers, including Brahms, Britten, Hoagy Carmichael, Philip Glass, Heiner Goebbels, Astor Piazzolla, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Schumann, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. This performance marks the company's Fall for Dance debut. |
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