MOVEMENT

MOVEMENT is the new evening-length work from Netta Yerushalmy that synthesizes over one hundred citations from an expansive range of dances across genres and cultures. It is a radical quilt of borrowed material that stretches the idea of pluralism until it almost snaps.The project features a new score by award-winning composer Paula Matthusen and is performed by dancers hailing from Korea, Senegal, Israel, Taiwan, and across the USA.
This piece follows Yerushalmy’s last major work, PARAMODERNITIES, a six-part series generated through reverently and violently dissecting iconic modern choreographies, provoking dynamic conversations with the troubled legacies of the past.

MOVEMENT is a continuation of Yerushamly’s practice of repurposing, reorienting, and re-contextualizing dance, spinning fragments of seemingly unrelated works into an enthralling new whole. This new maximalist performance shines light on dance as an inevitable and unifying force in a brittle and confused world.

CREDITS
A new work by: Netta Yerushalmy
Created with and performed by: Burr Johnson, Catie Leasca, Christopher Ralph, Caitlin Scranton, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Khalifa Babacar Top

Original Music: Paula Matthusen
Dramaturgy: Katherine Profeta
Lighting Design: Tuçe Yasak
Costumes: Magdalena Jarkowiec
Stage Management: Amanda Eno
Produced with: Miranda Wright, Los Angeles Performance Practice

MOVEMENT is co-commissioned by PEAK Performances at Montclair State (NJ). This project was created, in part, at The Yard, an artist residency and performance center dedicated to contemporary dance and related arts, with additional development support from a New York City Center Choreography Fellowship, Dance Initiative, Miami Light Project, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC). Support for MOVEMENT came from DanceNYC, New Music USA, NYSCA, The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, Harkness Foundation, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. MOVEMENT was developed in residence at the Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University.
Produced for Broadcast and Online Streaming by Montclair State University (NJ) for PEAK Performances.

MOVEMENT is produced by and managed with Los Angeles Performance Practice / performancepractice.org