Cornfield Dance

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- Cornfield Dance is working in partnership with three arts organizations in Scranton PA to bring Cornfield’s work and company to this community, involving and including the community in the creation of a new choreography. Artistic Director Ellen Cornfield will work with local performers, developing material that will be integrated into the choreography executed by her company dancers. The completed piece will be presented April 11th on a shared performance with the Scranton Civic Ballet. This new work Primer will be performed by Cornfield and two of her exceptional performers accompanied by live music composed and performed by Andreas Brade. In this work Cornfield is investigating our inner world of emotions and memory, mapping the wild and wide-ranging nature of that world, using a movement language that combines pedestrian movements and ordinary gestures along with full-throttle dance phrases. She is developing a “Gestural Chorus” with actors from the Electric Theatre Company, complete with vocals and facial expressions, and large and raw movement phrases with the dance students from Marywood University. Both categories of movement/theater will occur periodically throughout the piece. The final performance, in the handsome Scranton Cultural Center, will take place on the Center’s traditional proscenium stage as well as in the huge ballroom space directly behind it. With no solid wall between these two spaces, Cornfield will be able to use this unique theater configuration to layer material, creating levels of memory and presence, separating the spaces by a scrim and evocative lighting. Cornfield Dance will be “in residence” for the weekend, conducting classes and workshops for students of all ages, offering an open rehearsal on Saturday, and the final performance on Sunday afternoon.

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