Undercurrents & Exchange

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Undercurrents & Exchange

About Undercurrents & Exchange

Arts Brookfield, World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York (2009 & 2010)

Undercurrents & Exchange, commissioned by Arts Brookfield for the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place, was a rumination on the conundrum of love, infatuation and connection in modern America, manifested in a series of lunch-hour performances. Each day artists presented a new dance grappling with improbable relationships and unearthing the hidden, interpersonal undercurrents of our daily routines. These daily dances were episodic and culminated when they are performed together to reveal an underlying web of meaning. The work premiered in 2009 as a month-long series of daily lunchtime performances and again in 2010 as a series of lunchtime performances over a two week period that culminated in a full evening show. Undercurrents & Exchange in 2010 was created in correspondence with The Drifting Encyclopedia, an art exhibition in the WFC Courtyard Gallery.

  • Undercurrents & Exchange

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Tara Ocon, Tom Pearson

    Photoby Chad Heird

  • Jennine Willett, The Dang-it Bobbys

    Photo by Julieta Cervantes

  • Undercurrents & Exchange

    Photo by Chad Heird

  • Jennine Willett

    Photo by Chad Heird

  • Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Jennine Willett, Tara Ocon

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Undercurrents & Exchange

    Photo by Chad Heird

  • Undercurrents & Exchange

    Photo but Chad Heird

  • Tara Ocon, Jennine Willett, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Undercurrents & Exchange

    Photo by Darial Sneed

  • Tara Ocon (2009)

    Photo by Tom Pearson

  • Undercurrents & Exchange (2009)

    Photo by Chad Heird

  • Elizabeth Carena, Zach Morris

    Undercurrents & Exchange 2009

Credits

Danspace Project presents Vanishing Point
by Tom Pearson and Zach Morris

World Premiere

Creative Team

Created by Third Rail Projects

Artistic Directors
Zach Morris, Tom Pearson, Jennine Willett

Choreographed and Directed by
Tom Pearson and Zach Morris

With Choreography by
Tom Pearson, Jennine Willett, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, and Tara O'Con. 

Performed Daily by
Tom Pearson, Jennine Willett, Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Tara O'Con and guest artists.

Featuring music by:
Kris Bauman and the Dang-it Bobbys
Mark DeNardo
Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside
Jeff Palmiotti and the Hey Rube 
Sharon Van Etten
Annette Hanshaw & Antonio Vivaldi

Project Support

Undercurrents & Exchange was presented by Arts World Financial Center and the River To River Festival, and made possible, in part, by Materials for the Arts/New York City Department of Cultural Affairs/Department of Sanitation, The Lucky Star Foundation, and by Third Rail Projects with support from individual and institutional donors.

Free admission to River To River® events is underwritten by a wide range of funders led by the Festival’s Founding Sponsor, American Express.

Press Coverage

Additional Press Coverage

The New York Times | Feature | January 29, 2009
Dance Listings

Flavorwire | Interview | February 2, 2009
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