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Black Tie
International: ZviDance Annual Fall Benefit |
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ZVIDANCE ANNUAL FALL BENEFIT
Celebrating 20 Years
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at
7:30pm
At the Judson Memorial Church
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ZviDance,
a company comprised of athletic and lyrical dancers that
blends contemporary aesthetics with lush, full-bodied
movement, will begin a year-long celebration of the
20thAnniversary of the company with at their
Annual Fall Benefit
on
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 7:30pm at the
Judson
Memorial Church, 239 Thompson Street, NYC. Tickets are $100
($75 before 10/29) and are available at
www.zvidance.com/benefit
and by phone at 212-869-7429
At the
Annual Fall Benefit,
ZviDance will present
Personals
(2008), set to
"Tuxedo Moon" and "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds."
"The creation of
Personals
grew out of previous works where I had been reflecting on
the psychological construction of the self. Personals
is a dance work about the roles people play when seeking a
lover. This work is not about how the pageantry of
constructed identities becomes a modality for sexual
solicitation. I constructed
Personals
from short solos, each created by the dancers, a
collaborative process allowing for each personal 'profile'
to bring idiosyncratic material to a parade of human
advertising," said Zvi Gotheiner, artistic director of
ZviDance.
"The company's charismatic power
is sensational. Personals brings emotional qualities of
human lifeinto impressive movement codes."
- Stuttgarter Zeitung (Ludwigsburg Int'l Festival 2008)
"Changes in tempo seemed
effortless, seamlessly hailing pictures with content and
stories that flew by like thunder."
- Irene Schmidt-Makowiec, Kultur in der Region (Ludwigsburg
Int'l Festival 2008)
Dancers:
Aaron Carr, Kuan Hui Chew, Alison Clancy, Samantha Harvey,
Sera-Kim Huenergard, Kyle Lang, Rommel Salveron, Ying-Ying
Shiau, Jocelyn Tobias, Buddy Valdez
Costume design is by Rabiah Troncelliti and lighting design
is by Mark London.
The company's 20th Anniversary Season will continue with a
World Premiere Performance at Dance Theater Workshop in
April of 2010.
ZviDance
exists to provide audiences a means of experiencing a
world-class dance company with the unique choreographic
vision and movement vocabulary of Israeli-born Artistic
Director Zvi Gotheiner. Each piece defines a unique set of
relationships and experiences, boldly addressing the depths
of the human experience. The company performs frequently at
home in New York City at
venues such as the Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop and
Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors. Acting as a cultural ambassador
for the city, ZviDance has toured across North America to
festivals such as Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and The
American Dance Festival, and abroad to
Germany, Poland, Russia, Columbia,
Brazil, Ecuador and Japan.
Born and raised in Mesilot, an agrarian kibbutz in northern Israel rooted in communal living,
Zvi Gotheiner
(Artistic Director) arrived in
New York City on a dance
scholarship from the American-Israeli Cultural Foundation in
1978. Born to Polish parents who immigrated to
Israel during the rise of
national socialism across Europe,
Mr. Gotheiner's work contains a distinct blend of influences
ranging from European Expressionism to NYC-based postmodern
dance, intertwining concept and movement-based performance
into his signature movement vocabulary.
Zvi Gotheiner began his artistic career as a gifted
violinist with the Young Kibbutzim Orchestra, where he
attained the rank of soloist and Concertmaster at age 15. He
began dancing at 17, and soon after formed his first
performance group. After arriving in
New York, Zvi danced with the Joyce
Trisler Dance Company, Feld Ballets/NY and began touring
with Bat-Sheva Dance Company. After directing Tamar Ramle
and the Jerusalem Tamar Dance Companies in Israel and the Israeli Chamber Dance Company in
New York, he
founded ZviDance.
For more information, visit
www.zvidance.com/benefit.
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