Fridays @ Noon | ARTICHOKE DANCE COMPANY, MARIE-CHRISTINE GIORDANO DANCE COMPANY, REGINA NEJMAN, KEITH THOMPSON/DANCETACTICS

Fri, Mar 28, 12 pm FREE

Dubbed by The New York Times as the 92nd Street Y’s “delightfully informal” dance series, Fridays @ Noon presents new works and works-in-progress by seasoned and up-and-coming choreographers in a relaxed, open venue, followed by a Q&A with the choreographers. Lynn Neuman and her Artichoke Dance Company present If You See Something… Taking as her title a phrase familiar to New York subway riders, Neuman explores the contradictions between physical and psychological reflexes, how we handle gut reactions and how we fit them into what society defines as “normal” behavior. Lynn Neuman has trained in gymnastics, tango and Balinese dance, as well as the usual dance styles. She has had seasons at the Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Joyce SoHo, the American Theatre of Actors, the Ohio Theater and University Settlement and has appeared in festivals in New York, Philadelphia and Charleston, SC. After training in Switzerland, Marie-Christine Giordano shows excerpts from her work-in-progress, Spin Meditation. Starting in silence, and then to music by The Young Gods, the dance explores time and timing. The two performers, Giordano and Hiroko Yanagawa spin, shift their weight, dance in slow motion and alternate from total control to total abandon. Giordano studied at the Alvin Ailey and Martha Graham schools. In the early 1990s she began choreographing, and later formed her company, which presented its first evening-length work in Switzerland in 2002. Recently, her choreography has dealt with societal structures and the way they condition an individual’s identity, particularly for women. In New York, MCGD has appeared at St. Mark’s Church, the Merce Cunningham Studio, WAX and the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Regina Nejman shows excerpts from a work-in-progress, REVEAL, a dance exploring the meaning of privacy in a technology-driven world, where people are asked to be “reachable” at all times. Nejman looks at how advances in information and security technology have changed our everyday lives. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Regina Nejman is now based in New York. She has been choreographing since 1993 and former her company in 1997. She has received commissions from Princeton University, The Yard, and New Jersey City University, and has presented her dances at Joyce SoHo, Symphony Space, DTW, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, the Dia Foundation, the New York International Fringe Festival and Jacob’s Pillow. Keith A. Thompson presents his company danceTactics in Silent Echo, which examines cause and effect. Once a movement has been made, it becomes part of the recent, and then remote, past. Revisiting that movement creates an echo which exists in the present, only to slip into the past again. Seven dancers play with these ideas in the dance, set to music by Mark Chaet and Sergej Swechinski of Trio Bravo. A choreographer, teacher and dancer, Keith A. Thompson performed for years with Trisha Brown, also serving as her company’s rehearsal assistant, and has also danced with Dan Wagoner & Dancers, Creach/Koester Company and Bebe Miller. He’s shown his choreography at the American Dance Festival Faculty Concert, the DUMBO Dance Festival, Cool NY Dance Festival, DTW and the Dance Boom Festival in Philadelphia.

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