Belly is a 60-minute dance in 2 parts, collaboratively choreographed by Artistic Director Elizabeth Dishman and the performers: Larissa Asebedo, Tony Gonzales, Mary Lyn Graves, Nadia Halim, Owen Prum, and Julie Seal.

Part 1 of the dance partners with Bach’s “Solo Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor,” performed live by Adrian Ong. With present, embodied attentiveness, the artists frame the sonata's turbulent, poignant lines and fleeting resolutions as a relationally-charged contemporary dialogue between diverse voices.

Part 2 partners with a new sound score by cellist-composer Okorie Johnson, developed in response to Part 1’s choreography which was offered to him in silence with no knowledge of its first musical partner. His artistic voice cultivates a new sonic space in which to digest the existing dance.

Belly is named for the intimate space that draws together different individual elements for the body’s nourishment and pleasure. By digesting and making space for diverse elements, the whole body made up of many parts becomes cohesive and energized to move fluidly through a complicated world.

Audience dialogues to follow each show.

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ACCESSIBILITY: Church of the Ascension and Dixon Place are fully ADA-accessible. Please contact us if we may support you in any other way.

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TICKETS: $25 general admission or Pay What You Can

Belly will be presented in both Brooklyn and Manhattan. Please use the buttons below to purchase…

About the company:

Dishman + Co. Choreography is a professional collaborative dance company working to foster dialogue between different voices. Our connective practices of “embodied listening” build intimate, vigorous dance conversations that generate and exude from the stage a vibrant communal presence among the company’s distinct collaborators. Performances, audience conversations, and movement workshops with diverse communities share embodied listening as a powerful connector in a fractured culture.

Last year held so much seed planting (+ some painful pruning as well), prepping us to reach up and out in 2022… We’re tilling the soil through our Plant Giveaway Spring Fundraiser! I’ve curated 40+ plants from my personal collection as thank-yous for helping us nurture belonging in a fractured world through the shared language of the body.

Just like bodies, we’ve got a range of shapes/shades/sizes/needs, for donations from $15 - $100+. All are easy care and come with simple instructions. (I’ve organized the donation levels based on size and rarity, but mainly we’re just so grateful for your support and partnership in our work!!)

If you’re not in NYC I’m excited to offer houseplant consultation via email and phone if you’d like.

And of course, we welcome and deeply appreciate your tax-deductible support at any level, with or without plants! Even $1 widens our community, which is what this work is all about. THANK YOU!!

Announcing our October workshop offering care through artistic collaboration to 20 NYC professional dancers since the pandemic. These magical beings continue to persevere with so much beauty and courage during so much hurt...in a sector that historically does so little to support them. Co+ Life will activate healing in creative community and push the NYC dance sector toward a new culture of care.

Help us raise $4000 in 4 weeks by Oct 14 to support Co+Life: our newest endeavor building a new culture of care in the NYC dance sector. DONATE HERE……

THANK YOU!!

Titled for the site of dynamic physical forces, as well as great vulnerability, BELLY creates glorious dialogues between four highly sensitive, virtuosic dancers, and Baroque violin sonatas performed live. Both raw and soaring, BELLY will cultivate courageous listening, as we body forth the risks and glories of moving closely, curiously together.