CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY:  Burr Johnson, Catie Leasca, Christopher Ralph, Caitlin  Scranton, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Hsiao-Jou Tang, Khalifa Babacar Top

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Paula Matthusen

DRAMATURGY: Katherine Profeta

COSTUME DESIGN: Magdalena Jarkowiec

LIGHTING DESIGN: Tuçe Yasak

PRODUCED WITH: Miranda Wright, Los Angeles Performance Practice

RUNNING TIME: 70 minutes

“Yerushalmy demonstrates the essence of the dancing body  as a living archive, which curates within itself traces of  movement, culture, and heritage. These traces are preserved, pulsating and ever-renewing, between past and present.”

– The contemporary eye

MOVEMENT synthesizes over one hundred citations from an expansive range of dances across genres and cultures. It is a radical quilt of borrowed material that stretches the idea of pluralism until it almost snaps.The project features a new score by award-winning composer Paula Matthusen and is performed by dancers hailing from Korea, Senegal, Israel, Taiwan, and across the USA.

MOVEMENT is co-commissioned by PEAK Performances at Montclair State (NJ). This project was created, in part, at The Yard, an artist residency and performance center dedicated to contemporary dance and related arts, with additional development support from a New York City Center Choreography Fellowship, Dance Initiative, Miami Light Project, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC).  Support for MOVEMENT came from DanceNYC, New Music USA, NYSCA, The O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation, Harkness Foundation, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. MOVEMENT was developed in residence at the Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University. 

Produced for Broadcast and Online Streaming by Montclair State University (NJ) for PEAK Performances. 

MOVEMENT is produced by and managed with Los Angeles Performance Practice / performancepractice.org

PHOTOGRAPHS: Marina Levitskaya