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Liz Gerring - choreography

Ursula Scherrer - video

Michael J. Schumacher - sound

dancers:

Elizabeth DeMent

Philip Montana

Tony Neidenbach

Adele Nickel

Matt Sweeney

Jessica Weiss

In this new work for 6 dancers Liz Gerring continues her longtime collaboration with artists Scherrer and Schumacher, layering her choreography with light and sound. The audience is seated within a multi-channel sound and multiple projection area where space is both marked and defined through the movement and relationship between all three mediums.

Liz Gerring: "We're attempting to create an environment in which meaning is derived from the image not the story. Non-narrative movement is deepened by the other media, each following a parallel trajectory or tangent, allowing 'story' to exist independently for each member of the audience."

Ursula Scherrer: "'Die Lichtung' is German for clearing. 'Das Licht' is 'the light’. For me, in a way, every piece is a kind of a clearing. We take something out of a greater context, out of our vision, be it in sounds, images or movements and share that with the audience."

Michael Schumacher: "The musical composition is diffused through a 6-speaker sound system placed around the room. The piece is a collage of field recordings, musique concrete and the composer playing guitar. A prominent sound is a set of recordings of the dancers' footsteps, recorded during rehearsals. Text is also featured, from the Disintegrating Language group active in Britain in the 60s, and by Ursula Scherrer, read in German."

Photo by Julieta Cervantes taken on location at Joyce Soho

LIZ GERRING DANCE COMPANY

W/URSULA SCHERRER & MICHAEL SCHUMACHER

Baryshnikov Arts Center, 450 West 37th St., NYC

“a collaborative visual/sound/movement environment - 3 elements in 3 dimensions”

"Lichtung /Clearing"

March 11-14, 2010

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