Theory Project presents ‘Movement of New York,’ a performance series at the heart of the Manhattan’s dance culture

Yesterday night, mates of Idea gathered within the Meatpacking District’s Gansevoort Plaza, along with the neighborhood’s residents and passersby, for a public dance efficiency collection. It was in celebration of Motion of New York—Idea Undertaking’s latest assortment, conceived by Dutch designer Lucas Ossendrijver. The capsule was impressed by the town’s vitality: its fast tempo, its fluidity, its simultaneous youth and timelessness. The presentation, fittingly, was rooted in its sense of place—one that might seize the temper and the quintessential signifiers of New York.

Three performances—composed by choreographers Kyle Abraham, Heidi Duckler, and Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener—harnessed the town’s panorama as their stage. Dancers, wearing Ossendrijver’s assortment, took reign over a minimalistic white set, climbing its scaffolding and venturing out of bounds onto the cobblestone-lined plaza the place the viewers sat. Every efficiency integrated its personal reside music: Abraham enlisted a vocalist with a full band, Duckler, a sole drummer, and Mitchell and Reiner, one vocal artist who created a bit impressed by the sounds of New York.

Every efficiency was distinct in composition, and in its interpretation of Ossendrijver’s designs, however the collection as an entire was cohesive in its symbiosis with the downtown group. “It’s not about creating editorial appears that look nice in a picture or on a catwalk,” mentioned Ossendrijver of the gathering. “It’s a product that lives on the streets.”