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Ticktock
SYREN Modern Dance and Astrophysicist Paul Sutter collaborated to create "Ticktock", a dance that uses narrative sequences and highly physical movement to explore time concepts including Einsteinʼs theories of Special and General Relativity, the Arrow of Time, and the human experience of time such as memory and perception. This creative process involved rehearsals and well-attended work in progress showings at The Ailey Studios in New York City, The STEAM Factory at The Ohio State University, and most recently at The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. Upcoming, "Ticktock" will be presented by Bryant Park Contemporary Dance (NY), and the Houston Museum of Natural Science (Texas). This project is made possible in part by support by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Choreographer: Kate St. Amand
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Costume Designer: Maria Ozmen
Running Time: 50 minutes
The Art of Fugue
SYREN Modern Dance, presented by Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, was the closing event of the 46th Season of Bach Vespers. “The Art of Fugue” is a site specific dance created specifically to be adapted for performance in spaces with organs (as well as harpsichord), with Bach’s “The Art of Fugue” as the centerpiece of the production. The dance explores definitions of beauty while searching for its existence in a world filled with detachment, immediacy, and exploitation. "The Art of Fugue" has been or will presented by Bach Society of Houston (Texas), Sacred Music at the Red Door (Connecticut), Providence United Methodist (North Carolina), and The Church of St. Luke in the Fields (NY). This project is made possible in part by support by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Choreographer: Kate St. Amand
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Organist: Rick Erickson
Costume Designer: Naomi Luppescu
Running Time: 60 minutes
Red and Blue, Bitter and Sweet
This dance is inspired by the dynamic and mysterious world of quantum physics. It explores theories such as Entanglement, Duality, Uncertainty Principle, and Superposition in a way that aims to shed light on them to a lay-person’s understanding. As the great physicist Erwin Schrodinger said in 1954 Cambridge Press: “I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives us a lot of factual information, puts all of our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart that really matters. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet…” This project premiered at Gibney in NYC, and has been presented at Children's Museum of Manhattan, Cambridge Science Festival, Dixon Place, IONA College, The Chapin School, American Physical Society's New England Conference, St. Paul's School for Girls, and High Tech High School.
Choreographer: Kate St. Amand
Composer: Poppy Ackroyd Costume Designer: Naomi Luppescu
Running Time: 35 minutes
Available for Students
SYREN is happy to work with you to determine which repertory could work best for your school’s programming. Contact us at info@syrendance.org or 212.300.7839 to request more information and to let us know about your program and how you are thinking SYREN might contribute.
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