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Martha says:
If you missed the opening offerings in the “Quadrille” series at the Joyce (John Jasperse’s mind-bending “Hinterland” and Kyle Abraham’s new “Dearest Home” for his company, A.I.M.), you still have exciting options coming up. This week, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, two Merce Cunningham alumni whose dance partnership has expanded to often strange but always engaging choreography, offer their new “Switch” on Tuesday and Wednesday as well as Saturday. Bessie-award winning choreographer Beth Gill’s new work “Pitkin Grove” opens on Thursday; and Donna Uchizono presents the final Quadrille offering, starting October 10 with a world premiere and a superb cast of dancers.
Curator Lar Lubovitch’s creative conceit builds on an idea he launched last year, transforming the traditional proscenium stage of The Joyce Theater into a theater-in-the-round, with audience members seated on all four sides of a constructed square built onto half of the original stage and the first several rows of the traditional seats. It is a physical shift that demands a changing perspective for the audience, and has offered his top-notch quintet of artist companies an exciting platform for their creative efforts. See all the rest if you can – each one will be worth it. Continues Tuesday, October 2 at 7:30 pm through October 13 .
Cover: Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener. Photo © Charles Villyard.
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