In the Studio with Breton Tyner-Bryan

Wednesday May 28th, 2014 – Following my ‘discovery’ of Breton Tyner-Bryan earlier this year when I saw her gorgeous duet Un Tanguito Cualquiera at The Current Sessions, I had the opportunity to meet her on May Day this Spring when she was rehearsing Tanguito with her colleague Catherine Correa for performances at Dixon Place. 

Today, Breton invited me to her studio again to watch a rehearsal of a new work-in-process, Self, which may be seen June 12th and 13th at the Tisch Summer Residency Festival and on July 9th at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place. For Self, a dancework about gender perception, Breton has teamed up with one of the Gotham dance scene’s most intriguing personalities, Shay Bares, and a dancer who sings (awesomely): Mary Carter. The three are good friends offstage, and they are obviously enjoying their collaboration on Self.

Breton

Mary…her rich, natural vocals are incorporated into the dancing, and Breton tells me there’s also a bass player who’ll be involved in Self.

Shay…in addition to dancing, singing, and being his sexy self, Shay is designing the costumes for Self. 

Breton’s plan is that Self will eventually expand into a three-part, full evening dancework. It will be interesting to follow the development of the piece. Meanwhile, for today, it was a pleasure to watch these three friends working together.