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Wendy Osserman Dance Company's New York Season
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, Crystal Field, Executive Director presents the Wendy Osserman Dance Company in the premiere of Appetite, April 4-7. Thursday-Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 3pm at Theater For The New City, 155 1st Avenue, between 9th & 10th Streets, NYC. Admission: $15, children $10. Reservations: 212-254-1109.
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Appetite, a seventy-five minute piece, traces the source, pleasure and conflict of our acquisitiveness. Osserman sees movement as a vehicle for questioning our behavior: the process of reading and re-reading the body as text, knowing and unknowing what it signifies, can perhaps help us accept contradiction and complexity. Performed by Lauren Ferguson, Emily Vetsch and Wendy Osserman with Briana Bartenieff and Hallie Hayne, the cast ranges in age from eleven to seventy. Music is by Skip La Plante who has composed for over 100 modern dance and off-off Broadway theater presentations including collaborating with Joseph Chaiken and Sam Shepard on TONGUES/SAVAGE LOVE. He co-founded MUSIC FOR HOMEMADE INSTRUMENTS in 1975. Laplante invents, builds, composes for, performs on and teaches with musical instruments built from trash. Lighting for Appetite is designed by Alex Bartenieff, costumes by longtime company member, Cori Kresge.
Click here to view excerpts from Compromised, our most recent production. This evening long piece was presented at the Hudson Guild Theatre in Chelsea, April 2012.
Compromised manifests the polarization we are witnessing on the political stage, the extremism of conflicting truths as seen by Left and Right. Can they both be right? Are they both wrong? Polarization and compromise are translated into movement, exposing the contradictions we are feeling, both between us and within. Osserman collaborated with four dancers, Lauren Ferguson, Cori Kresge, Cara Heerdt & Milan Misko. Music:Victor Lewis, Julian Mock, Eric Satie arranged by Jordan McLean, Set: Charles Hinman, Lighting: Roderick Murray, Costumes: Zuzka Kurtz
"As if trying to guide the discussion, Osserman stands center stage, directing traffic with her hands before finally giving up; apparently the effort of making opposing sides listen to each other is just too much... it often appears that her body is making its own decisions about what it wants to do—sometimes she tries to control it, and sometimes she just goes with it. " Eye On The Arts, NY, Jessica Moore 4/16/12
Click here to view more is more is more or less excerpts on YouTube
"...delighting and providing, as [Gertrude] Stein did in her own day, unexpected pleasure." - David St.-Lascaux, VOICE OF DANCE
Click here to view Out of Place excerpts on YouTube
"... the work is provocative precisely because it feels like a new amalgam of some indefinable kind." -Roslyn Sulcas, THE NEW YORK TIMES
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