AVI SCHER & DANCERS

presents the World Premieres of
Two Pieces

Utopia Variations and Inner Voice

and Four New York Premieres

featuring Marcelo Gomes, Sara Mearns and Veronika Part

April 3-5, 2010

at The Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater

AVI SCHER & DANCERS presents its debut New York Season with a program including two World Premiere productions and four New York Premieres from April 3-5, 2010 at The Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 W. 55th Street, NYC (at Ninth Avenue).  Performances: Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm, Monday at 8pm.  Tickets are $22 (students $12) and are available at www.smarttix.com or by phone at 212-868-4444.

The program features six works with appearances by star dancers Marcelo Gomes, Sara Mearns and Veronika Part.  Singer Genevieve Labean performs live with musicians Wes Hutchinson and Chris LoPresto for the final piece of the evening.

The program begins with the New York Premiere of Mystery in the Wind, danced by Marcelo Gomes, Sara Mearns, Veronika Part, Abi Stafford and Elizabeth Walker.  The piece gives an eerie feeling, as three women create a small community, then a mysterious couple appears among them, unsettling the peace that the trio had developed.  The New York Premiere of Little Stories uses the pop-poetics of Jason Mraz’s songs to tell three stories of modern-day relationships.   The work is danced by Robert Colby Damon, Kelsey Converty, Jennifer Goodman, Savannah Lowery, Shane Ohmer, and Christian Tworzyanski.  No Matter What, a New York Premiere, delves into ideas of community and unity by depicting groups of people in various dilemmas and moods – good and bad, scary and peaceful – showing that their commitments to each other can take them through anything.  The dancers for the piece are Kelsey Coventry, Robert Colby Damon, Jennifer Goodman, J’aMalik, Victoria North, Nancy Richer, and Arron Scott with music by Aphex Twin.  The New York Premiere of Touch, with music by Alles Wie Gross and Alarm Will Sound, danced by Ralph Ippolito, Savannah Lowery, Veronika Part, Arron Scott, and Eric Tamm, explores our digital age and the lack of human connection imposed by it.  The World Premiere of Utopia Variations, danced by Marcelo Gomes and Sara Mearns, offers the unique opportunity to see these two star dancers from American Ballet Theatre and New York City Ballet dancing together.  The piece depicts people dancing at worlds end, as this slowly creeps into their insulated world.  Inner Voice, a World Premiere with live music performed by Genevieve Labean, will be danced by Elysia Dawn, Ja’Malik, Victoria North, Shane Ohmer, Nancy Richer, Arron Scott, Abi Stafford, Eric Tamm, Christian Tworzyanski, and Elizabeth Walker.  Through the music and presence of Ms. Labean, the dancers play with the idea of a guardian among us, with Ms. Labean, recently a dancer with NYCB, appearing as a dancer and singer.  The program is appropriate for children ages seven and above.

AVI SCHER & DANCERS was formed in August of 2008 by emerging choreographer Avichai Scher.  The company’s mission is to build a young audience for neo classical and contemporary ballet by presenting top quality dancers and new works in small, affordable venues.  The company has been seen at Jacob’s Pillow, American Dance Guild, Previews, Choreography Under the Stars in Palm Desert, CA, and in 2010, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Symphony Space and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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ONE NIGHT ONLY
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 8pm

Eryc Taylor Dance, a New York City-based company devoted to the exploration of innovative and theatrical choreography on pointe, presents four World Premieres at The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Joan Weil Center for Dance, 405 W. 55th Street at Ninth Avenue, NYC on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 8pm.  Tickets are $25 ($20 for students, $35 with post-show reception) and are available through SmartTix at 212-868-4444,

www.smarttix.com.

Eryc Taylor Dance will present four world premieres:  SoloTango, set to music by Gotan Project; a duet set to the music of Katy Perry, Ginga (pronounced Jenga), the fundamental movement in capoeira, an Afro-Brailian art form combining elements of martial arts, dance, games and music; InsideOut, a pas de deux evoking both fragility and strength, set to music by Sebastian by Terry Davies & The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Erik Satie’s Gnossiennes No.1 – Lent, performed by Lang Lang; and Somewhere//Out There, performed by a quintet to three sections of music: Michael Fakesch’s Vacancy Variant Acid Remix, Dario Marianelli’s With My Own Eyes, and Conrad Kaneshiro’s Autumn.  The evening will also include Eminent Domain (2009), a dark, powerful, non-traditional piece danced on pointe by six forceful women who are intensely aware of their individual strengths, but who create a greater collective power together and The Look (2009), a solo that speaks to the memory of the loss of a first love, inspired by the song The Look of Love by Dusty Springfield.

Dancers:  Dwayne Brown, Jenna Dannenberger, Isabel Fernandez, Erin Ginn, Lydia Haug, Rachel Hamrick, Hope Kroog, Carly Mayer, and Shane Ohmer.  Costume design is by Tonatiuh Otero.

Eryc Taylor Dance is devoted to the exploration of innovative and theatrical choreography on pointe.  The company, currently in its inaugural year, presented a preview performance at Dance Theater Workshop in May 2009 and a Works in Progress at the 92nd Street Y in September 2008.

Eryc Taylor (artistic director) is a native of Los Angeles, CA.  He received his BFA in Dance from University of the Arts/Philadelphia and his MFA in Dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.  He has studied abroad at London Contemporary School of Dance and in Paris at the Centre de Danse du Marais and has received several major scholarships including a residency at Jacob’s Pillow.  Eryc spent two years with the Cunningham Dance Foundation Repertory Understudy Group and has performed works by Merce Cunningham, Mark Dendy, Group Motion, Paul Taylor, Milton Meyers, Sean Curran, and Gus Solomons Jr.  He has collaborated with such artists as Germaul Barnes, Laura Peterson, and Ying-Ying Shiau.  His choreography has been presented nationally and internationally.  Eryc has produced site-specific dance theater installations in Key West, Florida as well as two summer dance festivals in Martha’s Vineyard called "Dance Martha Dance!"  His work has also been seen at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Joyce SoHo, The Second Avenue Dance Theater, NYU, Dance New Amsterdam’s APAP festival and Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater.

ERYC TAYLOR DANCE
The Ailey Citigroup Theater, The Joan Weil Center for Dance,
405 W. 55th Street at Ninth Avenue, NYC
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 8pm

Tickets $25 ($20 for students, $35 with post-show reception)
www.smarttix.com

For more information, visit www.eryctaylor.com.

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