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Press
"Rollercoasters have nothing on this."
Mary Hodges,The Brooklyn Rail
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" Castro here challenges all your assumptions about
performance, and forces you to wake up. Gamble on it."
Elizabeth Zimmer, Metro
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article(PDF)
"Castro's Paradis feels like it grew organically
out of the ground (or descended from the heavens), like
the lovely trees and flowers that cover the garden's fifty-two
lush acres. No mere spectacle, the piece invites the viewer
to become part of a magical experience, a fitting tribute
to the beauty of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the endless
imagination of Castro and her company."
This Week in New York
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Description
a canary torsi creates site-adaptable dance
projects within visual and audio environments. Established
in 2009 by New York director/choreographer Yanira
Castro, a canary torsi invites audiences to engage
in scenarios that are anchored around live performance and
extend into other media and online platforms.... >more
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Yanira
Castro Biography
Yanira Castro is a Puerto Rican born and
Brooklyn-based director/choreographer. She collaborates with
performers and designers on individual projects under the
name, a canary torsi. Together with her collaborators,
she creates hybrid performance works that integrate movement,
installation, music, and text. Over the past eight years,
Castro has earned a reputation for creatively rethinking an
audience’s perceptual and sensorial experience of a
performance work...>more
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Repertory
The People to Come (work in progress)
The People to Come is the tentative title for a
new performance installation conceived and directed by choreographer
Yanira Castro in collaboration with sound installation artist
Stephan Moore, lighting and installation designer Kathy Couch,
and five male dancers. It is a solo choreographed by Castro
and radically altered each night by the performers from material
contributed by the communities surrounding the performance
site and the audience attending the performances.>more
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Paradis
Paradis is a performance and audio installation
with live piano performed outdoors at twilight. Inspired by
the final section of Jean-Luc Godard's 2004 film, Notre
Musique, Paradis continues Castro's exploration of the
space between the performer and audience member: the tension
in the simultaneous experience of distance and intimacy inherent
in the live performed moment...>more
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Wilderness
Wilderness is a site-adaptable performance installation
in which the audience and performers occupy a field of
black rubber mulch containing all elements of the piece: seating,
piano, crew. A stark emotional solo for an older man begins
the piece and is then translated to abstract, technical movement
for four dancers...>more
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Dark Horse/Black Forest- 45 minutes
Dark Horse/Black Forest is intensely performed love
story presented in the most intimate space, a bathroom. Set
in public bathrooms or an individual’s private bathroom,
the audience is privy to an emotional and private exchange
between a man and a woman that ends in a formal, sensual ballet…
pristine and stark...>more
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