DANCEOFF!

Andy Horwitz

An all new DANCEOFF! is Approaching!

April 5th & 6th at 8pm and 10pm both nights
@ PS122- Corner of Ninth St. and 1st Ave.
tickets: www.ticketweb.com (search word “danceoff”)

*Starring
Annie-b Parson w. Tricia Brouk (New Work)
Carolina & Felipe Telona (World Professional Mambo Champs)
Weena Pauly (Brian Brooks Moving Co./STREB/Magbana)
Leigh Garrett (Workum-Garrett Dance Theater/Fischerspooner)
Katie Workum (Workum-Garrett Dance Theater/David Neumann)
Headlong Dance Theater (Philadelphia)
Terry Dean Bartlett (STREB/Cirque Du Soleil)

A New Dance Film from Amy Larimer and Paul Sullivan

And Special Musical Guests:
THE ISOTONERS!

www.danceoff.net

“Really Altogether Different…DANCEOFF! is changing the face of the Nation…well at least Modern Dance.”
– Jenai Cutcher, Ballet-Dance Magazin

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  1. Gus Solomons Jr.

    CIRQUE DU SOIREE!

    When Terry Dean Bartlett isn’t flying through the air and crash landing for Elizabeth Streb/Ringside, and Katie Workum isn’t playing ice hockey, the two organize their lively performance revue, Danceoff! Postmodern dance rubs elbows with film, comedy, and ballroom in a new installment at P.S.122 (April 5-6).

    Tricia Brouk struts and claps in Annie-B Parsons’s work-in-progress Short Ride Out; Weena Pauly twirls on her knees in “Ta”; Leigh Garrett dances Cha Cha Championship alone, because her alleged partner’s too shy to come onstage; and actual ballroom champions, tanned and toned Carolina Orlovsky and Felipe Telona, do a scorching mambo.

    In a film made with Paul Sullivan, Miss Penelope’s School of Stillness, Amy Larimer stars as a demented dance teacher, who pelts students Clare Byrne and Holly Handman with pickles whenever they move. Mousy Amy Smith and portly Jeb Kreager of Philadelphia’s Headlong Dance Theater cavort as a suburban couple, re-living their hippie past to songs by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.

    In Dance for a Girl, Bartlett in a tux woos and wins ersatz cellist Workum with a series of exhausting back flips that crash onto a floor-mat. And downtown rockers The Isotoners – including two cute, befuddled go-go boys in skivvies – play musical interludes, including, appropriately, “Flashdance.”

    Gus Solomons jr

    (Originally written for the NYMetro Newspaper, but never published)

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