Ori Flomin
Ursula Eagly
Mina Nishimura
Toronto
Fields of Ida
Timmy's Idea
Pre-Show Coffee and Conversation: Oct 8 at 6:30pm
"Ori Flomin's [work]...flirts with camp sentimentality...and a kinetic, lashing movement language." - The New York Times
“My dances explore structure, its underpinnings and the human nature that challenges, subverts and renews itself within these boundaries.” – Ori Flomin
Toronto is a trio inspired by newly-found super-8 footage of Ori Flomin’s early childhood. Beginning with these documented memories of family jaunts and bringing in longtime friends Antonio Ramos and Colleen Thomas to perform, Ori creates a dance that translates a sense of youthful innocence and camaraderie through the well-trained adult body. Toronto features sound design by James Lo and video installation by Carlos Moore.
“Ms. Eagly’s darkly humorous, often violent imagination is to be treasured, and cultivated. You want to follow her rabbit-hole logic, even when stymied by it.” - The New York Times
“I make bizarre performances full of darkness, humor, and other contradictions.” – Ursula Eagly
Ursula Eagly builds strange yet recognizable worlds. Her newest solo, Fields of Ida, is set on a bare stage, where movements and songs create an ornate universe of their own. Here, Ursula evokes the post-apocalyptic landscape described in Norse mythology, where destruction and regeneration co-exist.
“Thoroughly captivating and without artifice, Ms.Nishimura creates an imaginative and highly rhythmic inner world.” - The New York Times
“Lightness can’t be separated from darkness. But darkness can be transformed into something happier or uplifting with a playful imagination and unexpected surprises” – Mina Nishimura
Born in Tokyo, Japan, and a New Yorker since 2001, Mina Nishimura’s work is “both dense and rewarding, heavy and refreshing, always unpredictable and sometimes funny.” (offoffoff.com) Mina’s new work, Timmy’s Idea, exists within a particular set of rules where time, space and events are consciously and unconsciously moving in one direction. Using both text and movement vocabularies, the work exaggerates commonplace ideas of time, thought, and emotion.
- Fields of Ida, Toronto, and Timmy’s Idea are commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop's Commissioning Program with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.