originally published: 03/30/2015
Nimbus Dance Works will take the stage with three performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fishman Space at the Fisher Building on Friday, May 8 at 8 PM and Saturday May 9 at 2 and 8 PM. Marking 10 years of producing its own brand of impactful dance, Nimbus will present the world premieres of two works at BAM. The company premieres Patch of Turf by Nimbus Artistic Director Samuel Pott, a work with original music composed by Qasim Naqvi of Dawn of Midi performed live by Brooklyn’s NOW Ensemble.
Patch of Turf considers humankind’s fragile relationship to the natural environment, told on a 12-square foot patch of artifical grass. Italian choreographer Luca Veggetti creates Scene/Nimbus, a new work utilizing interactive sculptural art pieces designed by artist Moe Yoshida. Nimbus will present the company premiere of seminal modern dance work Strange Fruit (1942), by Pearl Primus; Charles Weidman's iconic Lynchtown (1936), and additional repertory works by Francesca Harper and Samuel Pott, including Pott’s 2012 collaboration, Scarabs, with Brooklyn visual artist Nicola Lopez and Hong Kong composer Samson Young.
The Saturday matinee performance event, Public Forum: Dance, Race and Social Justice features a program of dance works with social justice themes including Pearl Primus’ 1942 Strange Fruit, Charles Weidman’s 1936 Lynchtown, Pott’s We Acquiesce, and Thistown performed by dance students from Drew University and New Jersey City University. Noted producer and curator Baraka Sele, joined by a panel of leading figures in the dance field, will lead a town hall style, post-performance discussion about dance in relation to social justice and socio-political. Charles Weidman’s Lynchtown, is recognized as an emblematic work of the early American modern dance pioneers which depicts a frenzied mob intent on murder, and is based on Weidman’s childhood experience of witnessing a lynching. Pioneering African-American choreographer Pearl Primus’s Strange Fruit is a solo piece set to a reading of the iconic poem of the same name. Thistown is an ongoing project where Nimbus engages with student dancers based around social or societal issues important to them, supporting a new generation of social and political voices in dance.
Nimbus Dance Works: 10 Years
at BAM, with NOW Ensemble
Dates: Friday, May 8th 8pm, Saturday, May 9th 2pm & 8pm
Sat Eve Post-show Reception Celebrating Nimbus’ 10th Anniversary
Tickets: $25 General; $15 Students/Seniors; Ticket & Saturday Reception: $75 and $150
Venue: BAM Fisher,
321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY 11217
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