Dancers appear from everywhere in Cedar Lake 360º immersive installation (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
SUMMER INTENSIVE
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
547 West 26th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
July 27-29, $25, 7:30 & 9:00
212-244-0015
www.cedarlakedance.com
360º slideshow
For its 2011 summer intensive, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has invited fifty student dancers to participate — in addition to the audience itself. Led by artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer and ballet master Alexandra Damiani, the sixteen-member company and its guests (twenty-five dancers per performance, plus the standing-room-only audience) will join forces in immersive multimedia interactive forty-minute events in their Chelsea home. “At a Cedar Lake installation everyone is a collaborator and everyone will leave with something of their own,” Pouffer explained in a statement. The student dancers have been training at Cedar Lake since July 11, taking classes in numerous disciplines in preparation for the 360º installation, scheduled for July 29-31 at 7:30 & 9:00 each night. There will be no seats; instead, the audience will be able to walk around the theater as the dancers move around them.