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CEDAR LAKE INSTALLATION 2015

(photo by Nir Arieli)

Biannual Cedar Lake immersive performance installation takes place February 6-7 (photo by Nir Arieli)

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
547 West 26th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
February 6-7, $35, 7:00 & 9:00
212-244-0015
www.cedarlakedance.com

We’ve been to several of Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet’s biannual immersive performance installations, exciting, energizing evenings of art and dance in which the audience is encouraged to walk around the redesigned Chelsea space as the dancers move about and action can crop up anywhere. Previously held in the summer, this year’s program, conceived and directed by artistic director Alexandra Damiani, is scheduled for February 6 & 7, when the sixteen-member corps will perform to movement choreographed by Damiani and the full Cedar Lake company: Jon Bond, Joaquim de Santana, Vânia Doutel Vaz, Joseph Kudra, Matthew Rich, Ida Saki, Rachelle Scott, Ebony Williams, Madeline Wong, Nickemil Concepcion, Jin Young Won, Guillaume Quéau, Navarra Novy-Williams, Raymond Pinto, and apprentices Daphne Fernberger and Patrick Coker. The score will be played live by Brooklyn-based violin and viola duo Charly and Margaux, better known as Chargaux, interdisciplinary artists who used to perform in the subways but now have toured around the country in more professional venues. Space is limited, so get your tickets now for this always adventurous and entertaining event. (The company will also be at BAM June 3-6 in a more traditional setting.)

CEDAR LAKE 360º INSTALLATION

Cedar Lake summer intensive

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.