New York-based contemporary, rhythm-driven dance company directed by choreographer David Parker and dancer/director Jeffrey Kazin presents the 12th season of Dance Now Boston. DNB generates lasting relationships between Boston and New York dance artists who thrive on mutual inspiration. Each season of DNB features artists from both cities in new commissioned work and cherished repertory. This year’s featured choreographers in addition to David Parker and The Bang Group include Kelli Edwards, Sara Hook, Emily Jerant-Hendrickson, Kristin Wagner, and Cassie Wang. This season’s new initiative has Kelli Edwards commissioned to create a duet for Parker and Kazin in the tradition of Isadora Duncan.
Boston-based choreographer and Dances by Isadora/Boston co-director Kelli Edwards creates a new duet for the Bang Group pair, in the tradition of her company’s namesake Isadora Duncan.
Illinois-based dancemaker Sara Hook, whose work self-reflexively spotlights the nature of performance and the tragicomic way dancers and their works are perceived, guests in a duet co-created with Parker, a long-time collaborator.
Kristin Wagner/Bodies Moving presents MILK, which explores the intimate labor of feeding a baby, the cultural weight placed on bodies, and the struggles and joys of loving and nourishing ourselves and our children.
Cassie Wang presents SHEER (parcel of her breathing body), a solo performance that investigates containment, sociocultural conditioning, and the cycles and repetitions in which humans find themselves.
Emily Jerant-Hendrickson’s BECOMING reflects how it feels to move forward in seasons of change. Where progress faces resistance, this dance embodies openness, surrender and emergence as momentum reshapes and reroutes human behavior.
THE BANG GROUP/DANCE NOW BOSTON:
New York-based contemporary, rhythm-driven dance company directed by choreographer David Parker and dancer/director Jeffrey Kazin presents the 12th season of Dance Now Boston. DNB generates lasting relationships between Boston and New York dance artists who thrive on mutual inspiration. Each season of DNB features artists from both cities in new commissioned work and cherished repertory.
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