nicholasleichterdance

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Sweetwash Special (2006), featuring original music by Eisa Davis, emphasizes themes of patience, commitment, and celebration. Performers appear in pockets of light throughout the space, their interactions evoking the endless possibilities of intimacy in New York’s pedestrian culture. The choreography and music are both structured and spontaneous, allowing intentions to be challenged by circumstance, and surprising unions of feeling to occur between the performers and with the audience. The seductive movement vocabulary and dramatic fusion of styles collides with and rides Eisa’s alto vocals and piano-driven acoustic band, a sound she calls minimalist soul. Davis and her musicians and special guest Jamie Bishton will perform with the company on June 29. Nicholas Leichter performs Animal (1997) a solo piece that reflects the fast and erratic emotional pace of urban life which had Dance Magazine citing ‘Leichter alone is like a gun ready to go off.’

Discretion (Primo Vere) (2004), originally choreographed as a duet, offers a glimpse of Leichter’s contemporaryinterpretation of Carl Orff’s ‘Carmina Burana’ for the company of eight dancers. And in Undertow (2000), Leichter, Daniel Clifton, Aaron Draper, and Jared Kaplan alternate between selfishness and the team. Dance Insider called it ‘A roguish portrayal of boyishness.’