Dance Projects, Inc. and Chen Dance Center present:
LIMINAL SURRENDER
An evening of Dance and Theater
Five Premieres
Directed by Beth Soll
At the Chen Dance Center, NYC

On Friday and Saturday April 15 & 16 at 7:30 PM, DANCE PROJECTS, INC. and CHEN DANCE CENTER will present Liminal Surrender,** an evening of dance and theater directed by Beth Soll. Performances will take place at the Chen Dance Center, 70 Mulberry Street, 2nd Floor in NYC. Admission: $15.
RESERVATIONS at bethsbron@gmail.com or 212-927-0476.
For additional information about these performances, see bethsollandcompany.org or chendancecenter.org

Liminal: “. . . on a boundary or threshold . . . transitional or intermediate between two states, [or] situations . . .” Oxford English Dictionary.

Liminal Surrender is a program of six dances by Beth Soll, a dance by Michelle Micca, and a new, one-act play by Gary Winter. Lighting design by Haejin Han. Soll has created the four new dances in response to the evocative and often melancholy music of the late Renaissance composer, Claudio Monteverdi. Her new solo, “Twilight Strategies,” is a dance of ecstatic subtlety, which maps the gentle peregrinations of the music. Lara Mahler and Andrew Trego will perform “Details at Dusk”, a duet that moves from a drowsy intimacy to virtuosic gaiety and sensuous partnering. Monteverdi’s surprisingly jazzy piece “Ohime…” gives a witty tone to “Sweet Detour,” a light, joyous solo for Lara Mahler. “Open Labyrinth,” will be performed by Andrew Trego, who imbues the dancing with visionary lyricism.

The evening will also consist of two revised repertory pieces: “Snow Dance” (2014), which evokes the sublime tranquility of slowly falling snow, performed by Karesia Batan and Michelle Micca to the music of György Kurtag. They will also perform Micca’s duet, “Tink,” (2013), an intensely psychological dance danced to music by Sis. In addition, Soll will perform “Covert Transformations” (2012), to music by Ivan Božičević and Eka Chabashvili. In this piece, Soll’s shifts between a vernacular nonchalance and a modern dance formality that combine to create a sense of sublime ambiguity. Gary Winter, known for his eclecticism and wit, has written “Dance of the Incidental Cashier,” a one-act, two–person play, directed by Meghan Finn with actress Abby Rosebrock* and actor Jack Frederick. About the process of writing this play, Winter notes that when he observes Beth Soll and her dancers in rehearsal, he is engaged by the language they use and how emotion manifests itself in the body, and he wonders how a non-dancer would use her own personal history to create a dance.

*Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
** Equity Approved Showcase.