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…
@ Church of the Ascension
127 Kent St; Brooklyn, NY 11222
@ Dixon Place
161A Chrystie St; New York, NY 10002
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.