Yuka Kawazu’s Danse En L’Air brings Kokoro – The Hearts, a night of unique dances and celebration of Danse En L’Air’s 12th anniversary, to the KnJ Theater in Peridance Middle (126 E thirteenth St, New York, New York 10003) on Saturday, November 8, at 8pm. This system affords a mixture of solos, duets and ensemble theatrical ballet, modern, ballroom, Latin, aerial dance, and Argentine tango. The night of dance is enhanced by digital projections of artworks by Andrea Shapiro and Melissa Kraft, and in addition options dwell music from proficient Japanese singer Hiroko Yonekura.
About this system, Kawazu says, “Our hearts really feel all types of feelings. We have to defend them, however on the similar time, we will benefit from the moments of magnificence. Our implausible artists Andrea Shapiro and Melissa Kraft’s art work will encourage a night of dance as we collectively present our hearts full of affection and pleasure. This 12 months’s efficiency is devoted to Agnes Lewucha and Kevin Carpenter; though they’re now not with us, they may all the time stay in our hearts, and in that, honor we have a good time them.”
Highlights of the numerous program embody: Kawazu’s “I Need You” danced by former New York Metropolis Ballet dancer Eliza Blutt and Adam Soniak; Kawazu’s “Alfonsina by the Sea” danced by former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancer Lisa Johnson-Willingham to the singing of Hiroko Yonekura; Argentine tango champion Anton Domansky and his accomplice Carolina Jaurena; West Coast swing champions Dimitri Hector and Dillon Luther; aerial choreography by Kyla Ranney; Albanian dancers Adelia Lami and Krisi Dalipi (Dancing with the Stars, X Issue Albania); ballroom from Nadine Hildebrand and Sherman Hope; and a foxtrot by Zachary Bordonaro choreographed for Kawazu.
Dancers additionally embody Lauren Carmen, Selene Parke, Hyun Ji Jeon, Georgia Wooden, Aikiu Chomphuworn, Meghan Schardt-Gensberg, Hanna Oldsman, Lauren Carmen, Victory Davis, Teryn Trent and Robert Arvidsson.
Basic admission tickets can be found right here.
Danse En L’Air is a vibrant, dynamic ballet firm based mostly in New York Metropolis. Beneath the steerage of Creative Director Yuka Kawazu, the ensemble’s choreographic imaginative and prescient blends the custom and purity of classical ballet approach with the expressiveness and immediacy of theater dance, presenting work that’s refreshing, inviting, and compelling to all audiences. Kawazu’s dances are impressed by her worldwide perspective, the range of life in New York Metropolis, and the numerous fellow artists she has met all through her life. Every bit evinces its personal distinctive taste, and is dropped at life by the distinctive personalities of the dancers, who come from everywhere in the world and have carried out with quite a few famend corporations.
Yuka Kawazu (Creative Director, Producer) hails from Kanagawa, Japan. Her choreography has been proven by varied presenters — together with the Ailey Extension, Ballet Arts in New York Metropolis Middle, Broadway Dance Middle, Irene Mou’s Friday Night time Fever, New Dance Group, New Jersey Dance Theater Venture, PMT Dance, and Dance Molinari — at venues such because the Ailey Citigroup Theater, the Duplex and Triad Theaters, Symphony House, the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter School, Peridance and Ballet Arts in New York Metropolis Middle Studios. At the moment, she teaches ballet at New York Metropolis’s Peridance Middle, Broadway Dance Middle, the Ailey Extension, Danznik and Ballet Arts. She can also be a visitor professor at Showa Music College in Japan. Her college students have gone on to affix Broadway productions and worldwide dance corporations. As a performer, she appeared with ballet corporations all through america in principal and soloist roles, later changing into ballet mistress for Staten Island Ballet. For extra on Kawazu and Danse En L’Air, go to Fb.com and Instagram: @danseenlairnyc.
Andrea Shapiro (Artist) has been a Broadway and Off-Broadway Producer, and is a winner of three OBIE awards. She has been a painter and member of the Artwork College students League for 16 years. Now producing for Yuka Kawazu’s Danse En L’Air.
Melissa Kraft (Artist) has exhibited her work all through the USA, and in Canada, Poland, Ukraine and Greece. Her work is within the collections of the NYC Dept. of Ed., The Authorized Help Society in NY, The EarlyWorks Youngsters’s Museum, Galeria Labirynt, and the Copelouzos Household Artwork Museum. She was Natl. Assoc, of Girls Artists Artist of the Month, and her work has gained awards from Mills Pond Gallery, Prisma Artwork Prize, Valley Arts Gallery, Columbia College Medical Middle Wonderful Arts, Ciao Gallery, and Artists Needed. She was chosen to take part in residencies in Poland, Ukraine and Canada, and is one among 22 worldwide artists chosen for a touring exhibition devoted to the relationships that modern artists kind with nature. Melissa accomplished her MA in Artwork and Artwork Training at Columbia College/Lecturers School, the place she was awarded the Portray Studio Assistantship, and was the recipient of the President’s Award for Neighborhood and Range. For extra on Kraft, go to www.melissakraft.com, or observe her on Instagram: @melissakraftart or Fb.
