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Next! + Crossroads (virtual) with William Isaac’s Pre-Election Voting Contemporary Class & Aperture of Time

  • Pioneers Go East Collective 140 2nd Avenue New York, NY, 10003 United States (map)

Next! + Crossroads (virtual) with William Isaac’s Pre-Election Voting Contemporary Class & Aperture of Time.

Dance performance - Aperture of Time (excerpt) premiered in 2014 for Kymera Dance's season at The JCC in Manhattan using John Luther Adams Four Thousand Holes to tell the story of how some bonds erode without any reason. The atmosphere and dance is brought into focus by lighting designer Philip Trevino. The work is for three dancers split in two halves with one dancer acting as the through-line for the entire 33-minute work. Also, the work created over several months allowed me to develop a very specific movement language that paid attention to the scores peaks and valleys but not be overly sentimental in delivery. 

Workshop - Pre-Election Voting Contemporary Class - This election year is stressful enough so before you cast your ballot to find out if we’ll still have a democracy, come and work through some of that stress with this all-encompassing mélange of a movement class. Stimulate, refresh, and “get yo life” before the pop off on November 3rd.

To join us: RSVP at pioneersgoeast@gmail.com and we’ll send you the Meeting ID to join us on Zoom live. All participants are welcome! If you want to submit your work for our curated series for the Spring 2021 - please send us an email at pioneersgoeast@gmail.com

William Isaac, award-winning Artistic Director, Choreographer and Dancer, was born on the island nation of Antigua. His project-based company Kymera Dance is dedicated to making new work in the artistic discipline of dance, collaboration within other arts & entertainment fields and the development of future dance artists. He has received a Next Festival of Emerging Artists Residency, UNCSA Choreographic Institute Development Residency, New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” award, a William Loeb award, a NFAA award (YoungArts), Donna Reed Festival Finalist and was the first Van Lier Fellowship recipient at The Ailey School. Extremely focused on his skills as a choreographer he has created works for Kymera Dance, Ailey/Fordham University BFA program, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Hofstra University, The Juilliard School, UNCSA, and  Philadanco’s “Danco on Danco”. He is also an avid teacher and enjoys mentoring. His aesthetic is the unrestricted use of his imagination when building new work and collaborating.

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