Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company Presents An Evening of Love Dances

admin January 23, 2024 Dance News USA No Comment

This Valentine’s Day, from 6-7 pm, the NYC-based Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company offers An Evening of Love Dances, a free live Zoom event celebrating love in the DGDC repertory. Reserve your ticket for a front-row view to the 25th Anniversary edition, Gems from the Vault, featuring highlights from the archives.

Choreographer and dancer Daniel Gwirtzman, joined by influential Company dancer Cary McWilliam (1998-2009), will offer their unique perspectives surrounding these favorite dances. Valentine’s is not all saccharine; the push and pull of relationships, the work they require, are equal ingredients. Grab a seat so you can be up close and personal to the lauded dancers. Be among the first to see this footage!

This year’s event will screen never-before-seen footage from:

The Oracle, the Company’s 15th Anniversary season at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn. “The phrase, ‘angels in the architecture,’ written by Paul Simon, has been ringing in my mind since the New York-based company debuted part of this larger work…a vision that vibrated on a frequency of harmony and brilliance” wrote ArtsATL dance critic Cynthia Bond Perry, reviewing the Company in Atlanta.

New Territory, the Company’s 2002 season, produced many of the Company’s most popular and beloved dances: Coupling, Shifting, Obsession, Puzzle, Scenarios, Getting Together.

Encore, the Company’s signature evening-length show set to jazz music, “is both the title of Gwirtzman’s new dance suite and the response it’s likely to inspire. The name refers to the repetitions of rehearsal, as a fictional troupe of Broadway dancers prepares to go on the road, but there’s little tedium in Gwirtzman’s choreography, set to classic jazz recordings. Executing his tricky syncopations and intricate patterns at breakneck tempos, the dancers can’t help but smile” wrote Brian Seibert in The New Yorker.

e-Motion, the Company’s newest work, a collaboration on a hybrid dance/theater piece with playwright Saviana Stanescu, explores artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and what it means to be human in a digital age.

The acclaimed New York-based Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company, celebrating its 25th Anniversary, is known for its playful virtuosity, musicality, accessibility and charisma. The nonprofit has been committed to education since its inception in 1998, operating with the philosophy that everyone can join the dance through multigenerational interactive programming. Incorporating dance and story into the film medium has been a consistent practice along with creating original programming for the stage. Collaborations that erode boundaries, blend genres and disciplines, take chances, involve community, promote accessibility, and celebrate performers’ individuality and humanity are areas of focus.