PRIZE (2016) 

PRIZE
Presented by The Joyce as part of Joyce UNLEASHED at New York Live Arts, June 2016
Choreography and Direction - Anna Sperber
Performers - Rebecca Breheney, Lizzie Feidelson, Opal Ingle, Jasmine Jawato, Emma Judkins, and Tara Willis
Lighting design - Elliott Jenetopulos
Music - Ryan Sawyer
Set design- Sara Walsh
Costume, Design and Fabrication - Christian Joy

In the world premiere of Prize, a wild, natural and driving kinetic power emerges. The dancers navigate a psychologically viscous space within, outside, and between one another. The force of the piece contracts and expands from a centrifugal group power and from solos that emerge from these highly organized crystalline formations.  In each solo, the dancer’s distinct approach to energy resonates as a powerful statement; some assertion of self - as though the dancer left a small trace of him or herself behind in the space.  At times with a startling and singular quietness and focus, while others are wild and unhinged with an essential agitation that bubbles beneath the surface of the work, and exploding it in a moment of fracture.

Read reviews of Prize here.