The Gerald W. Lynch Theater and CUNY Dance Initiative presents:

CDI 2023 Spring Artist in Residence

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 7:30 PM
Tickets are $30 for adults, and $20 for students and seniors. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit https://mordance.ticketleap.com/mordance/.

Celebrating the company’s tenth anniversary performance season, the program’s collaborations are committed to dancemaking that embodies artistic excellence while promoting civic engagement and social awareness. Choreographer Morgan McEwen will be joined by composer Polina Nazaykinskaya to create a new work inspired by Emily Dickinson's poem They Shut Me Up In Prose with live accompaniment by Konstantin Soukhovetski and Jesus Rodolfo. An additional partnership with composer Josh Knowles is influenced by visual artist Chris Jordan's film Albatross. The much anticipated revival of McEwen's 2018 ballet Stabat Mater will round out this triple bill.

MorDance CUNY Dance Initiative The Gerald W. Lynch Theater and CUNY Dance Initiative presents: CDI 2023 Spring Artist in Residence FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 7:30 PM SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 7:30 PM [...]

Jenny Rocha is a choreographer, dancer, costume designer and Artistic Director of Rocha Dance Theater, a Brooklyn-based dance company since 2001. She is also the Director of The Painted Ladies, a cabaret group that was admitted into the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas. A first generation Portuguese-American from New Bedford, Massachusetts, Rocha attended Roger Williams University for Dance and Performance, where she graduated with an Outstanding Achievement in Dance Award. She then moved to New York City, where Jenny served as a member of Sean Curran Company, Heidi Latsky Dance and other freelance choreographers for 12 collective years. Her choreography has been presented by esteemed venues such as The Philadelphia Museum of Art,The Boston Center for the Arts, Danspace Project, La MaMa, Galapagos Art Space, and more. Rocha has received awards and residencies including The Puffin Foundation grant, Galapagos Art Space Residency from 2008-2014, Armitage Gone! Dance/MANA Contemporary Space Residency and CUNY Dance Initiative in 2015 and 2018. The US Embassy in Lisbon awarded her an Innovation Grant to perform her work Battledress in Azores, Portugal, as well as host educational workshops in September, 2018. Rocha’s choreography has received critical acclaim in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Village Voice, among others. As a teaching artist, she has taught dance at universities and colleges nationwide, including Roger Williams University, Connecticut College, West Virginia University, and Lehman College. Rocha currently teaches choreography at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and serves on the guest faculty of Mark Morris Dance Center.

A technology-infused reimagining of the iconic ballet masterwork that examines the ways social media has leveraged an unexpected change on the nature of modern love and relationships.

A technology-infused reimagining of the iconic ballet masterwork that examines the ways social media has leveraged an unexpected change on the nature of modern love and relationships.

The SoHarmoniums’ presents "Women Inspiring Tomorrow", a concert dedicated to uplifting women’s voices through singing. It will feature five generations of women performing works ranging from classical to contemporary and all composed by women. Special guests, the young women of the Young People's Chorus of NYC.

During our theater production of Bruised But Not Broken, you will step into the lives of the Thomas sisters as they learn more about themselves and each other. Watch as they unveil pieces of themselves…the pieces that they didn't want anyone to see…the parts of themselves they were ashamed of and tried so desperately to hide.

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Bruised But Not Broken is about healing when you think you were too messed up, too damaged, and too bruised to heal. This production teaches you how to get up after you have fallen. God's ability to take what the enemy meant for evil and turn it into good is manifested in every scene. Remember, bitter becomes sweet when you put it in the Master's hands.

Tabula Rasa Dance Theater presents the world premiere of BORDER OF LIGHTS, a dance program about the US-México border wall and the scourge of xenophobia. Our company believes that xenophobia is an integral part of racism. We propose that xenophobia is a rejection of civilization.

BORDER OF LIGHTS invites audiences to help dismantle the obsolete walls that divide us.

Tabula Rasa Dance Theater presents the world premiere of BORDER OF LIGHTS, a dance program about the US-México border wall and the scourge of xenophobia. Our company believes that xenophobia is an integral part of racism. We propose that xenophobia is a rejection of civilization.

BORDER OF LIGHTS invites audiences to help dismantle the obsolete walls that divide us.