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  • In the Studio with Jeremy McQueen

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    Tuesday May 22, 2012 – Choreographer Jeremy McQueen invited me to a rehearsal of his ensemble work Incandescent Paths today at Battery Dance Studio. The piece will be presented at the Young Choreographer’s Festival, which will be held at Symphony Space on Saturday, June 2nd. Jeremy is one of eleven choreographers whose works will be presented at the festival this year.

    Incandescent Paths is set to the Ahn Trio’s recording of ‘Swing Shift: Prelude & Night Flight’, composed by Kenji Bunch. Jeremy will also present this piece (and other works) on Friday, July 27th as part of Jacob’s Pillow‘s Inside/Out series.

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    As the dancers continued working on Incandescent Paths today, I realized it’s much too fast-paced a dancework for me to capture with my limited photographic skill. Most of my images were lovely blurs of action (above). I did manage to catch a few of the dancers in moments of stillness:

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    Danielle Schulz

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    Amanda Mondoro

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    Tina Jackson

    It was really good seeing my dancer/buddies Norbert de la Cruz and Matthew Tiberi again but they were dancing so fast that my camera couldn’t capture them.

    The day after I visited Jeremy’s studio, he received some excellent news: he has been commissioned to  create a full-length ballet for the 2012 Dance Gallery Festival. ‘What Lies Within‘, an ensemble work for seven male dancers, will receive its world premiere on October 14, 2012 at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, as part of the Dance Gallery Festival’s “Level UP” series. Two other choreographers will also be represented, selected along with Jeremy from a field of over 250 applicants.

  • Lydia Johnson Dance: Rehearsal

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    Sunday May 21, 2012 – On this beautiful, sunny day Kokyat and I climbed the many steps to Battery Dance Studio where Lydia Johnson was rehearsing with her dancers for their upcoming performances at Peridance, June 23rd & 24th, 2012. Lydia will be showing a new work to music of J S Bach, a darkly luminous female ensemble work to music of Osvaldo Golijov, a revival of her 2006 FALLING OUT, and a poignant domestic quartet entitled SUMMER HOUSE. Both FALLING OUT and SUMMER HOUSE are set to music of Philip Glass. In the photo at the top, dancers Lisa Iannacito McBride and Kaitlin Accetta.

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    For her June performances, Lydia has inviited two guest dancers from the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company: Attila Joey Csiki (above)….

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    …and Reed Luplau (above); Reed will be dancing in both the new Bach work and in SUMMER HOUSE. These two dancers, steeped in the Lubovitch style, look perfect in Lydia’s lyrically expressive choreography.

    The rehearsal was underway when we arrived: working on the new Bach piece which is basically all mapped out but still open to editing or embellishment. Lydia works from instinct; she is likely to put refining touches on her work right up til curtain time. Her dancers are all accomplished performers who are able to find the nuances in the movement that make the choreography looks its best.

    Here are some of Kokyat’s images from today’s rehearsal of the Bach:

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    Lisa Iannacito McBride & Attila Joey Csiki

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    Katie Martin, Lisa Iannacito McBride, Jessica Sand

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    Min-Seon Kim & Blake Hennessy-York

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    Kaitlin Accetta, Lisa Iannacito McBride

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    Sarah Pon, Blake Hennessy-York

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    Reed Luplau, Attila Joey Csiki & Sarah Pon

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    Attila & Blake

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    Katie Martin

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    Reed Luplau

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    Sarah & Blake

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    Attila & Lisa

    Images from the rehearsal of SUMMER HOUSE appear here.

    All photography by Kokyat.