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Dragon’s Egg Presents!
at 2 pm at University Settlement, Speyer Hall, on September 21, 2024
184 Eldridge Street, NYC, NY 10002
All of the performers have been artists in residence at the Dragon’s Egg in the past years.
For more information about artistic residencies, and for the many activities of the Dragon’s Egg and of the Mystic Paper Beasts, please contact Marya Ursin at mybeasts@aol.com and visit the website: https:/dragonseggstudio.org
Programme for Dragon’s Egg Presents
“You Are Invited”
astral folk music by The Celestials: pre show and first bit
Clare Byrne, Amy Larimer, Nicholas Leichter
In Spite Of, Because Of…The Wallpaper
Choreography: Alison Cook-Beatty
Music: Jonathan Howard Katz:, No. 6
Dancers: Madelaine Burnett, Ioanna Ioannides, Ava Trochiano with
Tomislav Nevistić, Hannah Dillenbeck, Jacob Blank, and Gion Treichler
Set Designer: Daniel George Cook
Costumes: Ali Taghavi and Alison Cook-Beatty
Corporal Movement Coach: Steven Colluci
Premiered as a dance film in 2020, supported, in part, by the Dance/NYC Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund and premiered at Arts On Site in February 2024.
Fogata de amor (Fire of Love) by Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama
The duet conjures memories of the mother-daughter relationship, youth, aging, and the passage of time. The dance is inspired by Argentinean folk dances La Samba y La chacarera.
Dancers: Fiamma Lenzu-Carroll & Anabella Lenzu
Music: Victor hereditary. Singer: Mercedes Sosa and Lila Downs.
(my battery is low) and it is getting dark (excerpt)
Choreographer: Catherine Messina, director of rogue wave
Dancers: JG Luijte, Mayu NakaYa, Catherine Messina, Emily Hoff, Aryanna Allen
Costuming and sound editing: Catherine Messina
Imposter Syndrome
Choreography by Garet Wierdsma
Music: Audio clips from Psych2Day, “Emerald and Stone” by Jon Hopkins, “An Aborted
Being” by Nils Fraham, “QY2” by Gem Club
Dancers: Kyleigh Olivier and Evie Sonda
“La Llorona” – a Mexican folk song performed in the style of Chavela Vargas
“Yo Soy Aquel” – written by Manuel Alvarez & Beigbeder Perez; performed in the style of Raphael
Excerpts from The Haus of Glitter
Vocalist and Piano: Matt Garza
Guitar: Avi David
Gown: John Cantu
Like Fire and Powder
Choreographed and performed by Morgan Griffin
Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Director: Corydon Wagner
Producers: Julia Lewis & Meg Murthy
DOP: Axel Ebermann
AC: Kyle Taylor
Editor: Aaron Himelstein
Color: Vladmir Kucherov
Graphics: Alrightnice
Made possible by a residency at Art Cake NYC.
Grasping for Gravity
From the series, “Two Women Talking”
Created and performed by Ara Fitzgerald and Martha Moore.
Developed through transatlantic zooms, this series began thanks to nudges
from Marya and the Dragon’s Egg.
We are thrilled to finally share gravity in the same space an time.
Bush Gardens
TINATA Brynne Billingsley/ Elizabeth Corbett/ Penny Freeh
Choreography, sets, costumes: TINATA
Music: Kate Bush, Vivaldi
In “Bush Gardens,” TINATA performs elements mined from the medieval “Distaff Gospels,” pop culture, and dance, in an ironic polyvocal collage.
Recital: A Dragon’s Egg Prayer
Created and performed by Stroller Scene:
Ashley Siflinger – Company Manager
Chris Diercksen – Artistic Director
Jen Diamond – Communications Manager
Percy Hornak – Literary Manager
Sam Walsh – Graphic Design/Marketing
Stage manager: LD Kelley
Recorder of the event: Dan Potter
Ticket takers: Aarya Tiwathia and friends
Lighting: Emma Rivera
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