Erica Essner Performance Co-Op presents “Versailles Undone” and “Reflex 2014”

Erica Essner Performance Co-Op will present at Kaatsbaan International Center two premier performances:  “Versailles Undone” and “Reflex 2014”. Versailles Undone references the French Revolution and the decline of the monarchy and is loosely based on the fictional novel Farewell My Queen, by Chantal Thomas.  Baroque dance informs the physicality of the project and hanging ropes are used throughout as a metaphor for merrymaking, execution and as a lifeline for the destitute. …. “There is a remarkable fluidity governing Essner’s phrasing; her movement sequences connect so organically that one’s eyes remain forever married to the seamless choreographic action.” – Lisa Jo Sagolla- Backstage Blog. “Choreographers who work in an expressionist vein tend to be overwhelmed by influence- by Martha Graham, with her heavy-handed symbolism, or preachy Alvin Ailey, or abject Pina Bausch. But Erica Essner, a recent transplant from San Francisco, takes up big and dark subjects without resorting to expressionisms’s broad strokes”.  – Apollinaire Scherr, The New Yorker. http://eecop.org/

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