Created by Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young
Dorrance Dance
Electrifying tap dance company Dorrance Dance makes its BAM debut with a new site-specific work co-choreographed by Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young. This year’s Harkness Foundation Artist in Residence at the BAM Fisher, Dorrance brings her uniquely expansive practice to bear on collaborations with the extraordinary range of talent in her company—including Young, whose Bessie-Award winning sound design has effectively turned stages into playable instruments. In this world premiere commission created specifically for BAM’s most intimate venue, Young, Dorrance, and the rest of the company continue to push the technical, musical, and emotive boundaries of the form, transforming the Fishman Space into an auditory playground.
Music by Donovan Dorrance, Gregory Richardson, Aaron Marcellus, and Billy Martin
Costume design by Andrew Jordan
Lighting design by Kathy Kaufmann
Sound design by Christopher Marc
Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie lead participants through the movement and freestyle vocabularies of tap, percussive vernacular dance, breaking, and house, and their points of intersection.
BAM Members and Patrons are invited to a working dress rehearsal for a new site-specific work by Dorrance Dance, commissioned specifically for the intimate Fishman Space.
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