Erica Essner Performance Co-Op, New York

Boris Hristov Cultural Centre, 7 p.m.

June 6, Layers – Workshop/Performance

June 7, Layers – Workshop/Performance

Photographer: Matthew Murphy
Dancers: Courtney Drasner and Marcos Duran

“Sounds of thunder, wind and rain roll through the score, a collage of moody instrumental tracks, and Amy Glenn’s costumes include ripped fabric and tie-dyed prints that resemble voluptuous storm clouds. The dancers are continually tossed about, as if cast into a tempest.” – New York Times

... ”Frequently powerful…striking display of stormy passions.” Jack Anderson, The New York Times

Weathered evokes atmospheric conditions, and turns concepts of slippage, displacement, resistance into a metaphor for the harmony and chaos of life. Weathered is an exploration of our loss of control over the forces of nature and of how those forces belie the illusion of our permanent place on this planet.

Celebrating their twenty-third anniversary, the Erica Essner Performance Co-Op was founded in 1990 in San Francisco and enjoyed a decade of performing, teaching and touring in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2000, Erica Essner moved to New York City and re-established the Company. Recent performing highlights include FlicFest, Brooklyn NY, Site-specific work on The High Line, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, Central Park SummerStage, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Joyce SoHo, the Rio de Janeiro Choreographic Center, Alaska DanceTheater, and the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center.

This guest performance is supported by the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria