Emery LeCrone for Works & Process

Above: Emery LeCrone, photo by Kokyat

Thursday July 25th, 2013 – Choreographer Emery LeCrone has a new and unusual commission from the Guggenheim’s Works & Process series. In the past, Works & Process have invited two choreographers to create works to the same piece of music and present them on the same programme. Emery’s current commission gives this concept a new twist: she has been asked to create two ballets to the same piece of music, using different dancers in each. Today at the Guggenheim, friends of the choreographer were invited to watch a working rehearsal for this project.

The music is – blessedly – Bach, specifically the partita #2 in C minor. When we arrived, Emery was working out some partnering details with dancers Kaitlyn Gilliland and Alfredo Solivan. A second couple – Sarah Atkins and Richard Isaac – then rehearsed on a passage where they dance in unison, employing a fast-paced gestural language. As the hour drew to a close, the four dancers appeared together and ran thru the segment, dancing to the music which has now become visual.

Specific dates for the Works & Process perfomances of Emery’s Bach double-bill have not yet been set, but it will most likely be seen in March 2014. Further details will be forthcoming.