5:30 pm.
Neal Medlyn, I <3 Pina
5:30 pm.
Neal Medlyn, I <3 Pina
CO-PRESENTED BY ABRONS ARTS CENTER & GIBNEY DANCE
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Thursday, January 11, 10:00pm
Friday, January 12, 8:30pm
Saturday, January 13, 5:30pm
Sunday, January 14, 2:30pm
Tuesday, January 16, 7:00pm
Run Time: 90 minutes
Abrons Arts Center, Experimental Theater, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Single Tickets $25 / Abrons Festival Pass $20
I <3 PINA is devoted to the dance maker and cultural legend Pina Bausch. For its creation, Medlyn met with dance professionals and fans that are close to Bausch’s body of work. The encounters happened under the guise of a date to frame the heavily emotional grounds of everything that surrounds the dead choreographer’s legacy. He exchanged text messages, Twitter direct messages and went to bars with a New York Times dance critic, a theater maker, a choreographer and others. His investigation delves into his own feelings about Bausch and her work as well as his 10 years as an untrained dancer in New York contemporary dance. These encounters serve as material for a poetic documentary script in a music performance and choreography extracted from sections of Bausch’s dances.
I <3 PINA was commissioned by Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany.