The Theatre at St. Denims, New York, NY.
June 26, 2024.
AVID, the brand new dance firm of collaborative artists, premiered its inaugural season in NYC in late June. AVID (Inventive Ventures In Dance) is the brainchild of Emily Pace and Tanya Trembly. The corporate goals to deepen the connection between viewers and artist, in addition to present alternatives for seasoned and new artists alike.
The night opened to a reside musical overture for piano, flute and cello. Stay musicians make dance higher – interval. Audiences have been handled to this union of reside music and dance for a number of of the items introduced.
Italian Suite (excerpts) opened the dancing portion of the night time with a beautiful neo-classical three-part presentation. It was stunning, easy put, consisting of a solo, pas de deux and a girls’s dance. It was an ideal opener, light and approachable. Subsequent, the duet, Moonlight, shared that very same loveliness, however with an added layer of complexity because it explores the nuances of affection and belief, and their relationship to the unknown.
Closing the primary half of the present was Untamed Girl, a gradual burn of a piece that began tame and ended as a bonfire. I as soon as attended a bonfire fueled by defunct pianos whose strings popped as they burned – this was not dissimilar within the sense that destruction can present magnificence, and that shedding the “guidelines” can result in marvel.
Persona opens the second a part of the present, a dance for the sake of dance, a quartet, and a beautiful experience by the mystic that’s simply dance. Owls – Birds 1 was up subsequent and employed one thing I really like however don’t see that always: refined humor by dance. It really works so effectively when executed with technically glorious dancers. Lastly, Impluse explores the paradox of our present relationship with know-how and the way it pertains to human connection. Ending this system with this modern work exhibits the lengthy journey AVID took the viewers on – from the primary piece to the final – it was an attention-grabbing experience: like being subtlety pushed to really feel new issues like a delicate breeze that grew in depth over the course of the night.
All in all, the night time was extraordinarily effectively danced. Firms like this are such a useful addition to the dance world given what number of beautiful freelance dancers exist, typically with few alternatives to carry out. The eagerness of administrators of this firm is evident with every side of this efficiency from the help they have been capable of maintain, to the dancers and choreographers they work with, to the inclusion of reside music, and to the general professionalism of the manufacturing. It was a pleasure to look at!
By Emily Sarkissian of Dance Informa.
