Nelly van Bommel explores community culture and ritual in PINGULI, PINGULI, playing this week at the Baryshnikov Arts Center (photo by Julieta Cervantes)
Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
April 18-19, $20, 7:30
866-811-4111
www.bacnyc.org
Born and raised in France by Dutch parents and now based in Mamaroneck, Nelly van Bommel uses her diverse background in dance, dance theater, musicals, improvisation, and athletics to create eclectic pieces inspired by folk culture, as evidenced by such works as Pax Aeterna, Fanfarnèta, and Addio Amore. Van Bommel and her talented NØA Dance troupe will explore community ritual and practice in Pinguli, Pinguli, a fifty-minute piece that will be performed at the Baryshnikov Arts Center April 18 and 19. Set to music by Savina Yannatou, a popular Greek singer and songwriter who has composed works for the National Theatre of Greece and the Theatre of Silence, Pinguli, Pinguli mixes in a playful sense of humor with classical ballet movement in its choreography. Tickets are $20, but if you combine it with the May 2 or 4 Orchestra of St. Luke’s presentation of “Life Stories” — an evening of Mozart, Marshall, and Glière that is part of the Morgan Library’s Chamber Music Series and costs $45 by itself — you can get two tickets to each event for a total of $50.