Kinesis Project presents PARK DANCES in Fort Tryon Park on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010.
Family-friendly performances take place at 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM, and 4:00 PM on The Cloisters Lawn.
The dancers of Pressing Empty will be framed by the amazing gardens of Ft. Tryon, with backdrops of The Cloisters and the George Washington Bridge.
next week is:
PARK DANCES / DOWN
Battery Park Bosque Gardens
2PM, 3PM & 4PM
Site Specific performances winding through the imagination and gardens of Battery Park
PARK DANCES offers a beautiful and fun uptown experience for the whole family.
The event is FREE and is part of Kinesis Project's outreach programming, bringing dance to the parks of NYC.
www.kinesisproject.com
Kinesis Project is a NYC based dance company...
Our work has been called
"...comically acrobatic, gracefully classical ... visually arresting..." -NYTimes "...a Marx Brothers' routine with soul." -Audience member "...captivating, comical and very charming." -CriticalDance.com
Mission:
Kinesis Project is a physical, character driven, community inspired, collaborative dance organization.
Kinesis Project is a dance organization that produces dance concerts, facillitates educational programs and creates site specific performances with diverse communities. Kinesis Project produces work designed to make the soul dance and the feet fly. We are pushing the boundaries of what changes space, and people, by placing movement and stillness in unusual and inspiring places.
As a producing organization, Kinesis Project is proud to be a founding partner with Manhattan Theatre Source for their Annual Women's Work Festival, EstroGenius. Kinesis Project's involvement has created Women in Motion, the dance evenings of EstroGenius. Contact us with any questions at 212-942-1314
Melissa Riker is a freelance modern dancer, aerialist, choreographer and the Director of Kinesis Project dance theatre. Dancing and making dances in New York City since 1996, Ms. Riker has performed on stages of all sizes and celebrity nationally and internationally. She has danced in companies that excel in modern dance, partnering, martial arts, circus, moving meditation and Sufi-inspired spinning. Her movement has been called “athletic” and “serpentine,” her performances on rigging and on building roofs caused a reviewer to exclaim, “If there is a Spidergirl, it is Melissa Riker”.The New York Times said her choreography is “sometimes comically acrobatic, sometimes gracefully classical – Visually arresting” and an audience member wrote that the work is “a Marx-brothers routine with soul”.
Ms. Riker has created dances for film, theatre, operas and circus. Her text work has been commissioned and produced by multiple organizations and residencies. Ms. Riker has been a founder of multiple collaborative arts organizations including the Movement Salon on 3rd Avenue and 17th St in NYC and Manhattan Theatre Source in the West Village of NYC. Both organizations are now over 10 years old and going strong. She has been a resident of the Dance Omi International Art Center as one of three American choreographers, Earthdance, a Ford Foundation Fellow, received an artistic merit award from the Foundation for Greater Atlanta in 2007, 08, and 09 and a Recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation in 2006 and 2008.
Riker’s blog tracking her choreographic process, A Choreographer’s Blog, was named one of the 2010 top 50 blogs to be read by dance students, and was #1 in the “Written by Choreographers” Category. Kinesis Project had its 2010 Season at Judson Memorial Church with the world premiere of Pressing Empty, an evening length performance that was met with acclaim from audiences and reviewers alike.
She was an Artist-in-Residence with West Genesee High School’s Fine Arts Department during Spring 2010 teaching dance to the wide range of students in the West Genesee Dance Department.
Kinesis Project is a dance organization that produces dance concerts, facillitates educational programs and creates site specific performances with diverse communities.
Kinesis Project produces work designed to make the soul dance and the feet fly.
We are pushing the boundaries of what changes space, and people, by placing movement and stillness in unusual and inspiring places.
As a producing organization, Kinesis Project is proud to be a founding partner with Manhattan Theatre Source for their Annual Women's Work Festival, EstroGenius. Kinesis Project's involvement has created Women in Motion, the dance evenings of EstroGenius. For more information click here
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