Cedar Lake summer intensive offers dance fans a unique, immersive experience
SUMMER INTENSIVE
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
547 West 26th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
July 24-26, $25, 7:30 & 9:00
212-244-0015
www.cedarlakedance.com
2011 360º slideshow
From July 24 to 26, Chelsea-based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will present its summer intensive, Cedar Lake 360°, in an immersive installation at their home on West 26th St. For the last three weeks, thirty-three advanced students have been training with interim artistic director Alexandra Damiani — former artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer left this past May to pursue other opportunities — and members of the talented company. They will team up Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for two performances a night, at 7:30 and 9:00, that will include excerpts from Andonis Foniadakis’s Horizons, which had its premiere at the Joyce two months ago, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s spectacular Orbo Novo, which we said back in October 2009 “is not just good — it’s mind-blowingly good.” Each show will also feature original choreography by Cedar Lake members Jason Kittelberger & Acacia Schachte, Jon Bond, Rachelle Scott, and Ebony Williams. The 2011 360° summer intensive was a fun, exciting event, as fifty student dancers and the Cedar Lake crew wove in and around the audience, which was encouraged to move through the space as the performers lined up on mats, leaped onto concrete blocks, and dangled from the ceiling. This year the dancers are organized into two groups, the red cast (Skylar Boykin, Emma Bradley, Tessa Crawford, Spencer Davis, Kellie Drobnick, Daphne Fernberger, Evan Fisk, Evan Flood, Allison Gee, Einar Nikkerud, Deidre Rogan, Whitney Schmanski, Katherine Sprudz, Kevin Tate, Jacob Thoman, and Lukasz Zieba) and the blue cast (Tara Bellardini, Patrick Coker, Shelby Colona, Claudia Germuga, Karly Gillespie, Madi Hicks, Nathaniel Hunt, Mason Manning, Michael Marquez, Jenna Mitchell, Courtney Spears, Stephanie Stricker, Michael Stromile, Stephanie Terasaki, Anthony Tiedeman, and Maggie Westerfield), mixing it up with company members. Tickets for each forty-five-minute show are $25, well worth such a unique experience.