November 4, 2015

Choreographers Present, Discuss Works in Progress

Dance

CONTEMPORARY CHOREOGRAPHERS: Beth Gill will be one of three choreographers to present during the Lewis Center for the Arts’ “Choreographers in Residence and in Conversation” on Tuesday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Patricia Ward Hagan ’48 Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street. Gill is a 2015-16 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center. In addition to commissions from New York Live Arts, The Chocolate Factory Theater, The Kitchen, and Dance Theater Workshop, in 2011 she won two New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards for Outstanding Emerging Choreographer. (Photo Credit: Chris Cameron)

The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance will present “Choreographers in Residence and in Conversation,” featuring three choreographers associated with the Princeton Dance Program on Tuesday, November 10 at 6:30 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan ’48 Dance Studio, 185 Nassau Street. Choreographers Beth Gill, a 2015-16 Hodder Fellow; Dean Moss, a current guest artist; and Pavel Zustiak, a 2015-17 Princeton Arts Fellow, will present works-in-progress, as well as discuss the doubts, difficulties, and revelations they’ve encountered in the course of their current artistic undertakings. This event is free and open to the public.

“Choreographers in Residence and in Conversation,” an initiative begun in 2012, is designed to provide professional artists working in the University’s Program in Dance with additional support to further their work on a current artistic project. The initiative seeks to provide space and funds to these artists, and to facilitate their connections with other artists on campus, with students, and with the larger community. The event on November 10 is a public, artistic conversation providing a platform for these artists to share their choreographic process with each other and with the Princeton community. Gill, Moss, and Zustiak will present some excerpts of their work and describe how they have approached their projects in terms of their choreographic tools and processes. The choreographers will answer questions from each other and the audience. The emphasis in this initiative is on the artistic process.

“Choreographers rarely have opportunities to share their processes with each other and to learn just how their peers approach this business of dance-making,” notes Susan Marshall, director of the Program in Dance. “I am happy we can provide an opportunity for these highly regarded professional choreographers on our campus to share their work and thinking with each other and our students.”

To learn more about this event, the Program in Dance, and the more than 100 events offered annually by the Lewis Center, visit arts.princeton.edu.

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