Description

Yanira Castro + Company is a New York City based ensemble of dancers and designers established in 1997 by director/choreographer Yanira Castro. The company is dedicated to creating work that fuses experiments in movement with original music, costumes and visual elements such as film, video and installations to create vivid, contemporary performances. The company develops environments for their dances constructing installations that transform traditional venues or highlight unconventional sites and are unique to each space the piece is performed...>more info

Yanira Castro + Company Biography

Puerto-Rican born choreographer Yanira Castro has collaborated with a core group of performers and designers on individual projects since arriving in New York in 1994. In her work, she integrates different media including movement, music, text and visual elements such as film, video and installation to develop multi-layered works that encourage a complexity and openness of interpretation while being precise in form and structure.

Repertory

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 info

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