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The Time Lapse Dance ensemble dancers are Frances Barker, Morgan Bontz, Carly Cerasuolo, Anika Hunter, Maki Kitahara, Nicole Lemelin (swing), and Sarah Tracy (swing). In this way, the company has been able to preserve the dancers' deeply-held embodied knowledge and revive the repertory for the spring performances in fully-realized form.

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While TLD has remained actively engaged throughout the pandemic-producing street festivals, online programming, and dance films-these upcoming performances mark the first time since the start of the pandemic that the full company will reassemble for in-person onstage performances.Īrtistic Director/Choreographer Jody Sperling worked to retain most of the performers who were originally scheduled to perform in the company's canceled May 2020 season. Saturday, May 7 at 7pm In-person finale performance Tickets: $20 (student & senior), $30 (adult) Saturday, May 7 at 2pm In-person family program Tickets: $20 (student & senior), $30 (adult), $35 (family rate of 1 adult + 1 child + $10 per additional child) Thursday, May 5 at 7pm Gala, featuring performance, artist talk, and a special benefit reception Tickets: $50 (artists), $100+ (patron)įriday, May 6 at 7pm Performed in-person and livestreamed Tickets: $10 (livestream), $20 (student & senior), $30 (adult) Time Lapse Onstage: Wind Rose, American Elm, and the stage premiere of Plastic Harvest Theater at the 14th Street Y 344 East 14th Street, NYC /events/tldonstage Melting Ice/Changing Winds: Dance and Music of Climate Change Mandell Theater at Drexel University Corner of 33rd & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA Friday, April 29 at 7pm Tickets: FREE, reservations required /events/mandell2022 The dancers wear costumes fashioned from hundreds of plastic bags, creating a surreal spectacle with their actions and provoking contemplation about the beauty of what-and who-our society throws away. Dance Enthusiast called the street iteration 'a folk dance for the 21st Century.' The opening night gala on May 5 will include a full performance followed by a special benefit reception and conversation with the artists.

In New York City, The Theater at the 14th Street Y and TLD co-present Time Lapse Dance Onstage on May 5 & 6, 2022 at 7pm and May 7 at 2pm & 7pm, featuring Wind Rose, American Elm, and the stage premiere of Plastic Harvest,which explores the proliferation of plastic pollution. Sperling will also share a solo excerpt from a new work-in-progress, American Elm ('breathtaking,' Dance Enthusiast), which considers the relationship between trees and people. The program features Ice Cycle, which was inspired by Sperling's experience dancing on polar sea ice and expresses the fragility and dynamism of Arctic sea ice. Dance Tabs called it 'an unusually beautiful vision.' Also featured in the program is Wind Rose ('hypnotic,' World Policy Institute), which renders changing atmospheric patterns into palpable sight, sound, and touch. In Philadelphia, the Mandell Theater presents the Melting Ice/Changing Winds: Dance and Music of Climate Change on Apat 7pm.

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The series of shows features live music by Burtner, Sperling as a soloist, and TLD's brilliant all-women ensemble. (45.5 × 30.Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance (TLD) announces five onstage shows in Philadelphia and New York City in a continuation of their acclaimed climate change-themed collaboration with Matthew Burtner. Data Source National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph by Harry Allen, American, born 1964 Subject of Grandmaster Flash, American, born 1958 The Ritz, American, 1980 - early 1990s Date early 1980s Credit Line Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Medium silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper Dimensions H x W (Sheet): 19 13/16 × 15 15/16 in. On the verso is an adhesive label with the logo and printed in black text. Another performer and the stage lights are visible behind him. He wears light-colored pants with dark stripes down the side, a studded belt with handcuffs, a dark and light-colored jacket, and a dark-colored hat. Flash is viewed from above the camera, standing with his left hand on his left hip and looking out over his left shoulder. Object Details Description A black-and-white photograph of Grandmaster Flash onstage at The Ritz nightclub in New York City.

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