"...superb dancers in juicy, textured choreography.”– The Washington Post
Everyone Intimate Alone Visibly(2009)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy New Media Design: Mary Franck Music:Jeremy Zuckerman Lighting Design: Lucas Krech Premiere: Dance Place, Washington, D.C. Length: 50 Minutes
Everyone Intimate Alone Visibly, by Artistic Director and Choreographer Benjamin Levy of LEVYdance is an interactive performance experience investigating surveillance, separation, access and intimacy.
Everyone Intimate Alone Visibly is an exploration of instant-access communication as both moderator and interefence in human connectivity. Audiences areinvited to move with LEVYdance through an active space where captured motion, interactive video, and soundscape surrounds the audience and performance space, blurring the line between participant and observer.
LEVYdance transformed the alley outside its home studio into a custom framework for its 2008 Home Season. Three custom-designed stages connected by catwalks created a unique urban performance space that surrounded the audience with dance. The company presented Cirrus, Wake, Physics and NuNu against the backdrop of the graffiti, street lamps, concrete, and city scape.
Cirrus(2008)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy, in creative partnership with LEVYdance Music: Trio Medieval, Nico Muhly, Thomas Tallis Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design:LEVYdance Premiere: Heron Street, San Francisco, CA Length:15 Minutes
Wake(2008)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy, in creative partnership with LEVYdance Music: Rachel's Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design: Christopher Hojin Lee Premiere:Heron Street, San Francisco, CA Length:11 Minutes
Physics(2008)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy, in creative partnership with LEVYdance Music: Original Composition by Mason Bates Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design: Wendy Sparks Premiere: Heron Street, San Francisco, CA Length:15 Minutes
Bone lines(2007)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy Music: Composed by Keeril Makan, recorded by Kronos Quartet Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design: Colleen Quen Set Design: Rick Lee Premiere: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Length:23 Minutes
And though I did not experience their pain, my ancestor's experiences have been stored
in my cells. This project is birthed from a desire to investigate their history within my
own body. I wish to begin from my personal experiences, sparking an exploration of
how past, specifically traumatic and life-altering experiences, can be encoded in our
bodies and passed down through generations.
--Benjamin Levy
Bone lines, by Artistic Director and Choreographer Benjamin Levy of LEVYdance is the
result of a striking collaboration with French couture designer Colleen Quen, interior/industrial designer Rick Lee, and avant-garde composer Keeril Makan, set to music recorded by the Kronos Quartet. Bone lines premiered October 12 and 13, 2007 at The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco to sold out audiences.
Bone lines was co-commissioned by the JCCSF, ODC Theater, and the Joyce Theater through funding received from the Dance: Creation to Performance program, funded by the James Irvine Foundation, and administered by Dance/USA, The Creative Work Fund, The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the David and Laura Merage Foundation, the Joyce Theater's Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Fund for New Work, and ODC Theater's Artist-in-Residence program where the project was conceived and incubated.
Nu Nu(2007)
Choreography: LEVYdance Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Premiere: Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Length:13 Minutes
Violent Momentum(2005)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design: Reina Goodrich Premiere: ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA Length: 20 Minutes
if this small space(2005)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy and Racheal Lincoln Music: Winslow Potter Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Premiere: Dance Place Theater, Washington, D.C. Length: 8 Minutes
That Four Letter Word. (2004)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design: Wendy Sparks Premiere: Joyce SoHo, New York , NY Length: 20 Minutes
Holding Pattern (2004)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy Music: Matthew Johnson Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design: Wendy Sparks Premiere: Cowell Theater, San Francisco , CA Length: 10 Minutes
Temporal Rust (2003)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy Music: Sound collage by Desdemona Chiang Set/Lighting Design: Gregory Emetaz Costume Design: Wendy Sparks Premiere: Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco , CA Length: 18 Minutes
Falling After Too (2003; Restaged 2004)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy and Darrin Michael Wright Music: Anthony Porter Costume Design: Wendy Sparks Premiere: Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco , CA Length: 10 Minutes
pOrtal (2002)
Choreography: Benjamin Levy Music: Christopher Lancaster Costume Design: Avila Hamp Premiere: Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley , CA Length: 12 Minutes
