The Bessies Award Special Citation 2020 Honoree Jacqulyn Buglisi for the Table of Silence Project
In Partnership with New York Live Arts
Invisible Embrace of Beauty | Lindsay Jorgensen | Photo by Paul B. Goode
Grace | Blakeley White-McGuire | Photo by Nan Melville
Featuring the premiere of Jacqulyn Buglisi’s
Invisible Embrace
Buglisi Dance Theatre | Armitage Gone! Dance | Sidra Bell Dance |
Meagan King | Jennifer Muller/The Works | Passion Fruit Dance Company
Women choreographers have always been innovators of dance, and WOMEN / CREATE! A Festival of Dance celebrates their creativity and vision with its 9th annual New York City season. This year’s Festival will span the gamut of dance techniques, from contemporary to club and street styles, and will feature four dance films and two live world premieres performed at New York Live Arts.
Thurs., May 20, 2021, Opening Night Premiere
On-Demand through May 23
Post-Show Talk-Back Moderated by Danni Gee
Invisible Embrace (World Premiere)
Choreographer: Jacqulyn Buglisi
Commissioned Composer: Alex Weiser
Film by: Terese Capucilli, Photography Paul B. Goode
Lighting Designer: John Cuff
Projection Designer: Joey Moro
Music Performed by: Merz Trio
Piano: Lee Dionne, Violin: Brigid Coleridge, Cello: Julia Yang
Singer: Eliza Bagg
Performed by
Christine Dakin, Blakeley White-McGuire, So Young An, Jesse Obremski,
Greta Campo, Evan Fisk, Myles Hunter, Ricardo Barrett, Carolina Rivera, Aoi Sato
In its first indoor performance onstage since the pandemic, Buglisi Dance Theatre presents the world premiere of the Invisible Embrace of Beauty choreographed by Jacqulyn Buglisi with commissioned music by Alex Weiser.
Buglisi has dedicated her life works to the belief that movement expresses the story of mankind, revealing the wonder, mystery, sacredness and truths of the human condition, and the resilience of humanity in the face of struggles and sorrows. In the Invisible Embrace of Beauty, she seeks to awaken our humanity by reaching into the hearts of the community during this critical time of division and need for unity by speaking out for individuals in today’s America who feel invisible, or expendable, by virtue of race, isolation, and diaspora. In times of chaos we need stories that bridge distances giving physical dialogue to the human drama to reveal the invisible beauty of mankind’s soul.
Inspired by the writings of John O’Donohue, Dante’s Inferno, Claudia Rankin, Heidi Andrea Restropo Rhodes, Layli Long Soldier, and Rilke, Buglisi questions what makes us human, acknowledging the moral necessity to hear each other’s voices, and embrace the concealed beauty of existence.
This premiere of the Invisible Embrace of Beauty features 4 of the 5 sections of the ballet.
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NEW YORK LIVE ARTS
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