The CUNY Dance Initiative & The Gerald W. Lynch Theater to Present Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY

The CUNY Dance Initiative and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay Faculty will current the New York return of Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, on Saturday April 23, 2022, at 8:00pm. The Gerald W. Lynch Theater is situated 524 W. 59th Street, NYC (amongst 10th & 11th Avenues). Tickets are $55/$35/$10 for college students and are out there for invest in at www.joshuabeamish.com.

Choreographer and dancer Joshua Beamish, who moves fluidly among present-day and ballet idioms, offers an night of earth and New York Metropolis premieres. The software will element the stage premiere of the pas de deux from the Joshua Beamish/Herman Cornejo/Steven Sebring collaboration, DANCE Are living, executed by American Ballet Theatre principal dancers Herman Cornejo and Skylar Brandt. Joshua Beamish will complete the New York premiere of Redemption, a solo choreographed for him by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa. The other works on the system are all choreographed by Beamish and done by artists from American Ballet Theatre (ABT), The National Ballet of Canada, Dance Theater of Harlem, Stephen Petronio Organization, and Abraham.In.Movement (A.I.M.).

DANCE Reside Pas de deux (Reside Overall performance Premiere)

Choreography: Joshua Beamish

Performed by Skylar Brandt (ABT) & Herman Cornejo (ABT)

Songs: Peter Sparacino

Costume Design and style: Norma Kamali

Make Up Design and style: Tyron Machhausen

Lighting Design and style: Joshua Beamish & Steven Sebring

Electronic Environment Premiere: January 30, 2021, VEEPS

This work was at first commissioned by Dance Reside Herman Cornejo and Sebring Revolution.

Proximity (New York Premiere)

Choreography: Joshua Beamish

Executed by Joshua Beamish & Tamisha Guy (A.I.M)

Tunes: “S.T.A.Y” by Hans Zimmer

Costume Design and style: Bregje van Balen

Costume Building: Hermien Hollander

Lights Style and design: Joshua Beamish & James Proudfoot

World Premiere: Oct 3, 2020, Slide For Dance North, Toronto, Canada Proximity, commissioned by Slide For Dance North, Toronto, was initially carried out and made with Rena Narumi.

The generation of Proximity was also made achievable with the guidance of Het Dansatelier Den Haag, Lonneke Van Leth Dans, Theater De Nieuwe Regentes Den Haag and the Samuel H Scripps Basis.

Blood To Bones (Entire world Premiere)

Choreography: Joshua Beamish

Performed by Da’Von Doane (formerly of Dance Theater of Harlem) & Stephanie Petersen (ABT)

Songs: “Bow to String” by Daniel Bjarnason

Costume Layout: Mark Anthony Gieringer

Lighting Style and design: Jimmy Lawlor

Designed with the help of Rockefeller Brothers Fund/Pocantico Center, The Samuel H Scripps Foundation and BAM.

Redemption (New York Premiere)

Choreography: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa

Done by Joshua Beamish

Tunes: “Redemption” by Lisa Gerrard

Costume Style and design: Georg Meyer-Wiel

Lights Style and design: James Proudfoot

Entire world Premiere: October 18, 2020, Sechelt Arts Pageant, Sechelt, Canada

Designed with the support of The Dance Centre, The Hamber Foundation & The Samuel H Scripps Basis

Meadow (Entire world Premiere)

Choreography: Joshua Beamish

Executed by Juan Duarte (previous Ballet BC), Da’Von Doane (previous DTH), Zhong-jing Fang (ABT), Man (A.I.M), Harrison James (Nationwide Ballet of Canada), Betsy McBride (ABT), Oliver Oguma (Countrywide Ballet du Rhin), Luciana Paris (ABT), Stephanie Petersen (ABT), Nicholas Sciscione (Stephen Petronio Firm), Anna Schlueter (Boston Conservatory)

Songs: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Main, K. 216: II. Adagio – Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Carried out by Anne-Sophie Mutter, Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan

Costume Structure: Bregje van Balen

Lights Structure: Jimmy Lawlor

Created with the assist of Dance Lab NY and The Samuel H Scripps Basis.

Keep

Choreography: Joshua Beamish

Executed by Harrison James (Countrywide Ballet of Canada) and Stephanie Petersen (ABT)

Songs: Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm

Costume Layout: Eric Winterling

Lights Style: Mike Inwood

Earth Premiere: July 18th, 2015, Hearth Island Dance Competition, Fire Island, NY

Designed with the generous assistance from Legacy Sponsors Karl Kemp and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to advantage Dancers Responding to AIDS. The development of this do the job was also manufactured possible with the assistance of American Ballet Theatre.

Countless Summer (Environment Premiere)

Choreography: Joshua Beamish

Carried out by Juan Duarte (previous Ballet BC), Zhong-jing Fang (ABT), Person (A.I.M), Harrison James (Countrywide Ballet of Canada), Betsy McBride (ABT), Oliver Oguma (National Ballet du Rhin), Luciana Paris (ABT), Nicholas Sciscione (Stephen Petronio Corporation)

Tunes: Picks from Countless Summer time by The Beach front Boys

Costume Structure: Joshua Beamish

Lighting Design and style: Jimmy Lawlor

Developed with the aid of The Hamber Basis and The Samuel H Scripps Basis.

“Beamish’s choreography is completely singular. His motion is shorter, jerky, staccato, and speedy with a full use of physique and limbs that are usually in movement executing jumps, turns and spins. Its most distinguishing characteristic is the fluidity he manages to give to the whole fabric.”

Joshua Beamish launched MOVETHECOMPANY in 2005 and his will work have because extensively toured in the course of North The us, Europe, Asia and Africa. Outside the house of the corporation, he has developed in collaboration with The Royal Ballet, The Countrywide Ballet of Canada, Dutch Nationwide/Het Nationale Ballet Junior Enterprise, Cape Town Opera, Vancouver Opera, New York Town Ballet Affiliate Artistic Director Wendy Whelan for Restless Creature and Principal Dancer Ashley Bouder for The Ashley Bouder Challenge, Pacific Northwest Ballet Principals Carla Korbes and Lindsi Dec, Martha Graham Enterprise Principal dancer Lloyd Knight, Compania Nacional de Danza de Mexico, Ballet Edmonton, Cape Dance Enterprise/South Africa, Toronto Dance Theatre, Ballet Kelowna, Santa Barbara Dance Theater, the Universities of Alberta, Missouri and Simon Fraser, learners at Obtain College at SUNY and The Juilliard College, Coriolus Dance, le Prisme Culturel, Halifax Dance, Ballet Jorgen and Kansas City’s Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance, among the others. Joshua choreographed for the CBC Radio Canada actuality collection Ils Dansent with Nico Archambault, the Opening Ceremonies of the 2011 Intercontinental Children’s Wintertime Video games, the Cultural Olympiads for both of those the 2010 and the 2012 Olympics and with Cirque du Soleil for Planet EXPO Shanghai. He has worked carefully with Paul Becker as an Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain or Performer in Warner Brothers’ The Wicker Man with Nicolas Cage, New Line’s Code Identify: The Cleaner, Nickelodeon’s Jinxed, Freeform’s Motherland: Fort Salem, The CW’s HELLCATS and VH1’s Totally Amazing with Chris Kattan of Saturday Evening Dwell. He also collaborated with Kelly Konno in Nickelodeon’s Impressive and appeared in the ABC collection Daily life As We Know It with Kelly Osbourne. Joshua is the recipient of inventive residencies during North The usa, which includes The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Pocantico Centre, The Banff Centre, Jacob’s Pillow and a phrase as the Countrywide Incubator Artist for the American Dance Institute, now Lumberyard. He is an alumnus of the New York Choreographic Institute – an affiliate business of New York Town Ballet and the University of American Ballet, and a Jerome Robbins Basis, Samuel H Scripps Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund grantee. Notable latest displays involve BAM Subsequent Wave Festival, The Joyce Theater, The Royal Opera Dwelling/ London, Canada’s Countrywide Arts Heart, Theater Freiburg/ Germany, Princeton College, London’s The Area, The Guggenheim Museum’s Is effective & Course of action, Jacobs Pillow, a Fire Island Dance Festival fee, Chicago’s The Harris Theater and Chicago Dancing Pageant, ArtScape Opera House/South Africa, Artists in Action/Mumbai and a comprehensive evening of will work commissioned by the Bangkok Worldwide Pageant/Thai Opera Household to celebrate 50 many years of Canadian and Thai political relations. In 2012, Joshua done in the Pillow’s 80th Anniversary improvisation venture From the Horse’s Mouth: The Males Dancers at Jacob’s Pillow, together with Arthur Mitchell and Lar Lubovitch, among other individuals. Joshua was a founding member of The Joyce Theater’s Younger Leaders Circle Committee and an inaugural Artist-in-Home at The Joyce Theater’s Choreographic Middle at Gibney Dance.

Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (Choreographer) is an award-successful and sought-right after Belgian-Colombian choreographer who has designed operates for 70 dance firms close to the earth these as the Dutch Countrywide Ballet, English National Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, West Australian Ballet, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, San Francisco Ballet, New York Metropolis Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Dance Theater of Harlem, amid some others. A versatile choreographer, Lopez Ochoa generates inside the dance industry but also for theatre, opera, musical theatre. Her broad-ranging system of operate involves short conceptual parts, comprehensive-length narrative ballets, and dance movies. In 2012, she was awarded Uk Dance Award Finest Classical choreography for A Streetcar Named Desire, created for the Scottish Ballet. That identical calendar year the perform was nominated for an Olivier Award, and given that it has been on the rep of several firms around the planet. In 2019, Annabelle grew to become the recipient of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award as very well as the system director of the Jacob’s Pillow Modern Ballet Summertime Program. This year, Annabelle premiered her 9th narrative ballet “Doña Peron” for Ballet Hispanico.

About the Presenters

Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY’s residency and general performance at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater are section of the CUNY Dance Initiative (CDI), a transformative incubator that secures two important yet scarce assets-rehearsal time and efficiency area-for New York Metropolis choreographers and dance businesses throughout the five boroughs. Housed within the Metropolis College of New York (CUNY)-the nation’s premier general public city college procedure-CDI is a residency method that supports area artists, improves the cultural existence and schooling of faculty college students, and builds new dance audiences at CUNY accomplishing arts facilities. www.cuny.edu/danceinitiative CDI gets significant aid from The Mertz Gilmore Basis and Howard Gilman Foundation. Supplemental support is furnished by the Jerome Robbins Foundation, SHS Foundation, Harkness Basis for Dance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and community cash from the New York Metropolis Office of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the Town Council. CDI is part of Dance/NYC’s New York Metropolis Dance Rehearsal Place Subsidy System, built achievable by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. CDI is spearheaded by The Kupferberg Heart for the Arts at Queens Faculty. This residency and efficiency are manufactured probable by added funding supplied by the John Jay School Student Things to do Affiliation, Inc., with help from Baruch Performing Arts Heart at Baruch School.

John Jay Faculty of Legal Justice of The City College of New York, an worldwide chief in educating for justice, presents a prosperous liberal arts and skilled reports curriculum to upwards of 15,000 undergraduate and graduate college students from far more than 135 nations. In training, scholarship and research, the College ways justice as an utilized artwork and science in assistance to culture and as an ongoing dialogue about essential human desires for fairness, equality and the rule of legislation. For more facts, pay a visit to www.jjay.cuny.edu.

Since opening its doorways in 1988, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater has been an invaluable cultural source. The Theater is a member of CUNY Phases, a consortium of 16 carrying out arts facilities located on CUNY campuses across New York City and the CUNY Dance Initiative. The Theater is residence to the Lincoln Center’s Generally Mozart Pageant & White Gentle Festival, as well as the New Yorker Festival, Mannes Opera, the Entire world Science Competition, and the revival of Mummunschanz. The Theater has hosted are living and recorded events which include David Letterman’s My Up coming Guest Requires No Introduction, Inside of the Actor’s Studio, Carnegie Hall Community Live shows, Comedy Central Presents one-hour specials, the American Justice Summit, the NYC Mayoral Democratic Debates, and the start of Jay-Z’s REFORM initiative. The Theater welcomes premiere galas, conferences, intercontinental competitions, and graduations. For additional facts, and a program of functions, remember to take a look at www.GeraldWLynchTheater.com.