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RG Dance Projects presents We Fall Down, We Get Up

by Michelle Brandon
May 2, 2013
Westbeth Center for the Arts
463 West Street
(between Bank and Bethune Streets)
New York, NY 10014
(212) 691-1500
RG Dance Projects presents We Fall Down, We Get Up featuring three pieces from choreographer and Artistic Director Rubén Graciani on May 17, 2013 at 8pm and May 18, 2013 at 3pm and 8pm at the Martha Graham Center for Contemporary Dance's Studio Theater at Westbeth, 55 Bethune Street, 11th Floor, NYC. Tickets are $20 ($15 for students, seniors, and artists) and can be purchased at www.artful.ly/store/events/1111.

The evening will include two works from the repertory - "Swing and a Miss" set to music by Richard Danielpour and "Rapture," a multi-media duet to the music of Debussy. The program culminates with the new work, "We Fall Down, We Get Up" - a larger work with 5 dancers, 24 singers from the Broadway Community Chorus, and a "living" set by Philip Treviño.

"We Fall Down, We Get Up," is an extension of a work begun at Skidmore College about the boundaries of identity. The new work is an exploration of one's boundaries; both those we create for ourselves and those we inherit. The work questions how much control we have over the "performance" of our identity if some of those identifying markers are more or less inherited and permanent. The singers will be part of a "living" set to which they are tethered, demarking the stage space with tangible boundaries for the dancers to either work through or be constrained by. The singers are not only performing with the dancers, but also creating and changing the dynamics of the performance space as a living, breathing set piece.

Rubén Graciani has performed with the Mark Morris Dance Group (1994-1999), been a company member of the Kevin Wynn Collection, Company Stefanie Batten Bland, and the Joe Goode Performance Group, and has been a Guest Artist with the City Dance Ensemble and the Brian Brooks Moving Company, among many others. He holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, and an MFA from University of Maryland-College Park. His work in dance film was profiled in the November 2012 issue of Dance Magazine. He is currently an Associate Professor at Skidmore College, and a Dance Panelist for the New York Council on the Arts.

RG Dance Projects was loosely formed in 2009, and was formalized with debut performances in the DanceNow Raw Materials show in April of 2012. The company performed at the International Woodwind Festival in July of 2012 – cementing our commitment to collaborating with other artists on performance projects. The company performed in the DanceNow Joe's Pub Festival in September of 2012, winning the Audience Favorite Award for our evening. In February 2013, the company debuted at the CoolNY Festival, and in March, the Current Sessions Festival premiered a dance film project. The company had a residency at DanceNow SILO in Pennsylvania as a result of our Joe's Pub performance. RG Dance Projects is ecstatic to be able to begin work on a spring season with such a prestigious award. They have also been invited to perform their season at Saratoga ArtsFest in June of 2013.

For more information, please visit www.RubenGraciani.com.
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