Janis Brenner & Dancers will revisit the 1920s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and present a 2011 world premiere at Danspace Project this week
Danspace Project
St. Marks Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th St. at Second Ave.
April 7–9, $15-$20, 8:00
212-674-8112
www.danspaceproject.org
www.janisbrenner.com
For more than twenty-five years, Janis Brenner has been choreographing works that explore the mind-body connection, set to a wide range of music by such composers as Meredith Monk, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Pat Benatar, Eddie Money, the Beatles, and Marianne Faithfull as well as Dvorak, Schubert, Bach, and Mozart. Last year the choreographer/dancer/artistic director, who established Janis Brenner & Dancers in 1989 after working with the likes of Michael Moschen, Annabelle Gamson, and Murray Louis, staged 5 Decades, featuring works from five different decades celebrating the history of dance. She is now back with the sequel, 5 Decades II, at Danspace Project April 7-9, consisting of the world premiere of the site-specific The Mind-Stuff Variations, with live music by Jerome Begin and his ensemble; duets from Louis’s 1976 ballet, Cleopatra, and Brenner’s Pieces of Trust (1987 & 1989); Brenner performing two 1929 pieces by Mary Wigman, Seraphic Song and Pastorale; and a revival of Brenner’s 1998 signature work, heartSTRINGS. The works will be performed by Brenner, Kyla Barkin, Esme Boyce, Sumaya Jackson, Luke Murphy, Christopher Ralph, Aaron Selissen, and Chen Zielinski, with lighting by Mitchell Bogard and costumes by Ramona Ponce, Susan Soetaert, and Frank Garcia.