She is Uplifting
Hey Fam,
So this past Wednesday I went to a Parsons dance show and loved it. I have to be honest I don’t usually go to dance shows, not because I don’t like them but just because most of the events I go to are fashion or beauty related because of work. So when I got to the Joyce Theatre 20 minutes early (proud of myself lol), I sat downstairs in their comfy little concession area and ended up running into my cousin which was a nice surprise. The show started at 7:30 and I headed to my seat at 7:15. I looked around and could tell based off of the conversations that many of the people there did this all the time. I was excited because it was my first time attending a dance show in about two years. I saw Program A and my favorite performances were “Portinari” and “Caught”. I loved “Portinari” because it looked like a beautiful love story…it was like you could feel the emotions between them. And I loved “Caught”! I have never in my life seen anything like “Caught” before. It is basically a performance by one dancer with a strobe light flashing on stage. So every time its black on stage he is touching the stage and every time the light flashes he is in the air making it look like he is basically levitating and floating all across the stage…AMAZING!!!!
If you get a chance to see a show, the deets are below…
Parsons Dance presents Three World Premieres at The Joyce Theater
Program A: Wednesday, January 26 at 7:30pm; Saturday, January 29 at 8pm; Wednesday, February 2 at 7:30pm; Thursday, February 3 at 8pm; Saturday, February 5 at 8pm; and Sunday, February 6 at 7:30 pm
The Envelope, Sleep Study, Mood Swing, World Premiere of Portinari, Caught, World Premiere of Run to you
Parsons Dance creates American works of extraordinary artistry that are engaging and uplifting to audiences throughout the world. It is the goal of Parsons Dance to make contemporary dance accessible to the widest possible audiences. In addition to choreography and performance, Parsons Dance positively impacts children, students, and communities through student performances, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, post-show discussions and more. Parsons Dance has a company of eleven full-time dancers and maintains a repertory of more than 70 works choreographed by David Parsons, twenty of which feature originally commissioned scores by leading composers and musicians, including Dave Matthews, Michael Gordon and Milton Nascimento. Parsons Dance has collaborated with many other leading artists, including Julie Taymor, William Ivey Long, Annie Leibovitz, Donna Karan and Alex Katz (to name a few).
PROGRAM A:?The Envelope (1986) is a farcical and hysterical romp where the dancers are pitted against a renegade piece of stationery. Sleep Study (1987) is “a Busby Berkeley extravaganza that’s as compelling as it is hilarious” (The Globe and Mail) illustrating the universally recognizable tossing and turning of seven pajama-clad dancers who turn the stage into one large bed. Mood Swing (1994) is a commentary on our society’s fast pace and the use of antidepressants. Caught (1982) is an internationally renowned stroboscopic dance masterpiece that features a solo dancer performing more than 100 leaps in less than six minutes. Each leap is “caught” by the flash of a strobe light, to create a breathtaking illusion of flight. Caught has been performed thousands of times, worldwide, for more than 27 years.
