Dorrance Dance: SOUNDspace
July 2 – 11 | 8PM
In honor of Dorrance Dance’s 15th Anniversary season, one of Michelle’s favorite works – SOUNDspace – will return to St. Marks Church for the first time since its premiere!
Public performance dates: July 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th, 10th and 11th at 8pm.
Be sure to look out for an email with details surrounding tickets, community events, new merch drops, and a Special Closing Night Anniversary Party!
Performers will include Elizabeth Burke, Brittany DeStefano, Michelle Dorrance, Zakhele “Bboy Swazi” Grabowski, Asha DaHomey Griffith, Karida Griffith Walker, Sterling Harris, Luke Hickey, Addi Loving, John Manzari, Emiko Nakagawa, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Gregory Richardson, Leonardo Sandoval, Dylan Szuch, Byron Tittle, Tommy Wasiuta, and Nicholas Van Young, with more performers to be announced!*
*casting per show will vary
“SOUNDspace (2013) was created as an exploration of – and percussive love letter to – the sonic sanctum that is the theater/sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church. When this piece was created, I was asked by Danspace Artistic Director, Judy Hussie-Taylor, to consider my influences, lineage, and legacy – “the web of connections that new generations of artists trace with the past through their work.” I would argue that no dancers call upon such a wealth of individual influences of their elders and innovators more directly and more prodigiously than tap dancers. Their personalities, music, movement, style, invention, generosity, and care live deeply within us. And their lessons and invitations live deeply within this work.
In honor of Dorrance Dance’s 15th Anniversary season, I am remounting one of my favorite works in one of my favorite places to experience movement as music – and I cannot think of a better way to celebrate than through the rich and myriad sounds and textures of the feet.” – Michelle Dorrance
Choreography: Michelle Dorrance with solo improvisation by the dancers
Original Music: Gregory Richardson
Lighting Design: Kathy Kaufmann
The creation of SOUNDspace was made possible, in part, by the Danspace Project 2012-2013 Commissioning Initiative, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts. As part of Danspace Project’s Choreographic Center Without Walls, Dorrance received a production residency supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Dorrance Dance was founded in 2011 as a tap dance company, passionately committed to sharing the complex history, powerful legacy, and infinite possibilities of tap dance on a musical, conceptual, and emotional level. After 15 years of being the world’s preeminent tap dance company, Dorrance Dance’s mission has expanded. As a producing entity, the organization seeks after creating new work that continues to contextualize tap dance’s history and its diaspora in a culturally significant way. The company aspires to support the development and touring of new works and artists that continue to deepen the relationship between tap dance and the forms that have a direct relationship to its lineage.