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OZ ARTS NASHVILLE PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF NEW DIALECT’S MULTILINGUAL, AUGUST 21 AS PART OF THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER’S TNT (THURSDAY NIGHT THINGS) SERIES
Troupe of Artists from Tennessee, Romania, Israel and Russia Debut Evening-Length Work Combining Dance, Film and Original Music
OZ Arts Nashville will present the premiere of New Dialect’s MultiLingual in its elegantly minimal warehouse venue on August 21. Presented as part of OZ Arts’ monthly local spotlight series, TNT, the event features the troupe—which consists of accomplished artists from Tennessee, Romania, Israel and Russia—performing an evening-length work of dance, film and original music they created.
Guests are invited to arrive at 5:30 to enjoy OZ Arts’ lounge and outdoor sculpture garden. The Mas Tacos Por Favor and Retro Sno! food trucks will be on hand, and drinks will be served from a cash bar. The performance will begin promptly at 7:00pm. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased online at www.oznashville.com or at the door. OZ is located at 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle in Nashville, TN.
The first presentation of the evening will be Fight/Flight, a dance choreographed by New Dialect’s artistic director, Banning Bouldin, and performed by the collective’s company dancers. Bouldin, a Nashville native and Juilliard-trained dancer, has performed throughout North America, Europe and Russia with such companies as The Cullberg Ballet of Sweden, Buglisi/Foremen Dance, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Azure Barton and Artists. Her most recent choreographic work, Agora, debuted during The Nashville Ballet’s Emergence series in May.
Fight/Flight grew out of a collaboration with Emily Clayton, a New York-based visual artist with a performance-driven practice. Last summer, Bouldin attended an opening of Clayton’s work at the Zeitgeist gallery in Nashville, where she was impacted by the disruptive and intimate nature of the images on display. Drawing from that inspiration, Bouldin began working with Clayton and the dancers of New Dialect to explore the raw and delicate power of partnerships through the language of movement.
MultiLingual will also feature photographs from Clayton’s series Coupling and a selection of ink drawings by Angela Markeen Naglieri that were inspired by New Dialect’s Fight/Flight rehearsals.
Fight/Flight will then be followed by a short film documenting a new dance work created for New Dialect by Idan Sharabi, an award-winning choreographer from Tel Aviv, who will hold a residency at New Dialect Choreographer’s Lab in July. The film will provide the audience a look into Sharabi’s creative process and will offer a taste of his kinetic, sometimes explosive movement language.
The evening will also include the premiere of a duet created and danced by Ana-Maria Lucaciu and Bouldin, set to live, original music by Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin. Lucaciu, a native Romanian and Canadian-trained dancer, has worked with the Royal Danish Ballet, Germany’s Augsburg Ballet, Lisbon’s Contemporary Portguese Dance Company, and, most recently, New York’s Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Zhurbin, born in Moscow, is a Juilliard-trained violinist and composer who has arranged compositions for Yo-Yo Ma, the Kronos Quartet and Jay-Z, among others. The New York Times has heralded him as “strikingly original and soulful.” This performance is the first collaboration between Bouldin, Lucaciu, and Zhurbin.
“There are many movement languages in contemporary dance and each one has its own individual priorities and style,” Bouldin says. “MultiLingual features three of these languages—mine, Ana’s, and Idan’s, along with Ljova’s lovely composition. My hope is that our evening at OZ will educate and inspire people to consider how they move, and to question their own movement language. I want them to connect to themselves as movers, not just observers. I want to inspire people with the idea that movement is how we experience life.”
About New Dialect
New Dialect is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that seeks to promote the value of 21st Century dance by fostering the artistic development of dancers, teachers and choreographers. Led by Artistic Director Banning Bouldin, New Dialect’s mission is to raise awareness of the value of contemporary dance by enriching communities with authentic, high-quality dance workshops and performances that connect people more deeply to themselves and each other. New Dialect aims to inspire people of all social backgrounds, cultures and generations by offering affordable and free performances in theaters, galleries and public spaces.
http://newdialect.org/
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