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New Dance Films Made in Brazil

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Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company made its full program debut as a Company in New York in the summer of 1999.  Reviewing Daniel Gwirtzman’s ambitious Plasma Field at the un-air conditioned Merce Cunningham Studios during a record heat wave, Madeleine Dale reviewed the evening-length premiere in Attitude:The Dancers’ Magazine:

“Even the audience suffered for its art, and it was glorious, absolutely spellbinding…Even if we have to wait another three years, it will be worth it.”

Waiting has not been a part of the Company’s vocabulary however.  Rather, it has continued to produce dance without pause.  In celebration of our fifteenth anniversary season we announce the Winter/Spring Film Festival 2014, a series of dances on video, culminating in the world premiere of an evening-length dance at the BAM Fisher.  Looking both backward and forward, we will host fifteen events: dance films for the camera, five new dance films made in Brazil in 2013, and dance films from the repertory heretofore unpublished.

Brazil Performance

June 28, 2013, 4:30pm

Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Bahia.Part of the cast in Salvador

The culmination of Daniel’s two month residency at the Sacatar Foundation culminated in a public performance at the Institute’s dance studio/theater.  Students and professionals joined Daniel for this unique, site-specific live show.  Once it was dark several of the collaborative dance-for-camera films shot and edited in Bahia were screened outside against a large white wall, a grassy drive-in.

Narcissus, Sisyphus, and Other Myths

Performance at Abrons Arts Center Sunday, April 7, 2013, 3pm In preparation for its fifteenth anniversary celebration, Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company presented a program of premieres and reconstructions at the Abrons Arts Center’s Underground Theater in a one-performance only event, Sunday, April 7 at 3pm. The premieres included Narcissus, a solo for the choreographer, the […]