BODYART Dance Premieres New Works at Baruch October 4, 2012

BODYART, a multimedia, 8-member modern dance theatre company, celebrates its New York City season in a 3-night performance series featuring new works by the company’s Founder/Artistic Director Leslie Scott. Known for combining live movement, music and video projections, Scott presents a trio of pieces that are heavily influenced by photography, painting, and artistic collaborations. Serving as the main work of the program is LOFT – the NYC premiere of a 3-part work staged on a landscape of snow and set to live music for string quartet composed by the W4 New Music composers collective. Based on the movements of predatory birds, LOFT strives to symbolize the juxtaposition of freedom and group mentality evidenced in the flocking of birds. By coupling fluttering, winglike arms and feathery black tutus with a provocative movement vocabulary, the ensemble assembles and parts like flocking birds.

According to Scott, LOFT is otherworldly. “My hope with LOFT is for audiences to feel that moment when you need to catch your breath. It’s that moment of freedom when you’re flying, reaching your peak, and are about to come soaring down. That moment on the roller coaster when you go all the way up and that split second before your body comes down. The thought was, ‘What if you lived always in that moment?’”

Also on the program are: the world premiere of I want..., a solo piece featuring animated projection; and the NYC premiere of Script, a celebration of movement set to a re-arranged Philip Glass score for saxophone quartet.

Official Website: http://www.bodyartdance.com