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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:
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:
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
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