Summer Mix July 16-19 in Ithaca, NY
SUMMER MIX, an accessible, entertaining program of dance, combines the old with the new, a visual playlist bringing together favorites from the repertory with a premiere.
SUMMER MIX at the Kitchen Theatre Company, 417 W State St, Ithaca, NY 14850
Performance Dates and Times
- July 16: 2pm and 7pm
- July 17: 7pm
- July 18: 2pm and 7pm
- July 19: 2pm
PURCHASE TICKTS ON THE KITCHEN THEATRE COMPANY’S WEBSITE
The mix includes joyful excerpts from the Company’s acclaimed evening-length theatrical dance Encore, which premiered at New York City’s Joyce SoHo in 2007 and has never fallen out of the repertory. “The dancers can’t help but smile,” wrote The New Yorker reviewing the show. “It’s great to see imaginative dancing to music like this,” wrote The Village Voice. Backstage called the work “a riotous piece of razzle-dazzle entertainment.”
The new work, Flashpoint, was developed during an invitation-only residency at the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC during the summer or 2024. Flashpoint explores the contours of relationships, the push and pull of harmony and strife within our lives, and the lines separating intimacy from violence. The dance focuses on couples and how they act alone and interact within groups, an exploration of how moments can shift on a dime and ignite into conflict, suggestive of interpersonal relationships and as a metaphor for the incivilities and dramas within the larger society.
This summer mix, as a sultry summer storm, features darkness with sun, turbulence with clear skies. In all these dances the pedestrian-yet-virtuosic choreographic language, use of partnering and connection as a central subject, and blending of casualness with precision inform the style and performance of Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company.
