Young Dance Collective

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Sitting at home today, I thought I should probably work on some stuff I had to do for YDC, since the upcoming show is so incredibly soon (Oct. 2nd and 3rd. hint hint). So I looked at our video on the website to take some notes and ended up sitting there, watching piece after piece forgetting to take notes because I forgot how good it actually is. So I am posting now to tell everyone, you better come see our show because it is damn good (if I do say so myself).

2009’s Right Here. Right Now. is approaching faster than we were expecting.  Thankfully in the two weeks before show time everyone is starting to pull together their pieces of the show.  Costumes are being assembled, set and lighting designers are sitting in on rehearsals, and each piece is getting checked over to make sure the dance is at its best.  The company couldn’t be more excited to revive Right Here. Right Now. for a new audience and a new space.  In this revival, some revision of the old and addition of some new has made the show the most cohesive and powerful work YDC has created.  Remember October 2^nd and 3^rd are closer than you think, and seats have already begun to sell so its important that everyone interested in seeing this revolutionary and riveting show reserves their tickets as soon as possible by clicking on the convenient Box Office link at the top of the page.  Student tickets only cost $10 so bring your kids, friends, and friends’ kids to see Right Here. Right Now.  We can’t wait to see you all next weekend!

Performing at PS122 on Thursday, June 5th through Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Come experience a dance-exploration into the art of becoming one’s self as interpreted by seven inspired and inspiring teen artists. The Young Dance Collective hurtles against and through expectations of where they are in the scheme of life. Alert, ardent, open and decisive, this sophisticated company offers a formative investigation that reveals the intelligence and intensity of our youth.

“Don’t think about the past. Don’t think about the future.

Don’t think about what you are going to do the next day. Invest yourself entirely in the here and now.”

—Thich Nhat Hanh

Ticket Information
You can purchase tickets at www.ps122.org or call 212-352-3101

General Admission $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (PS122 members)

Showtimes
Thursday, June 5th 7:30pm
Friday, June 6th 7:30pm (reception to follow)
Saturday, June 7th 4:00pm and 7:30pm
Sunday, June 8th 4:00pm

Location
Performance Space 122
150 First Avenue @ 9th Street

Subway
L train to 1st Avenue
F/V train to 2nd Avenue
N/R to 8th Street 
6 to Astor Place

Bus
M15 at St. Mark’s/9th St.

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Merce Cummingham and The Young Dance Collective, originally uploaded by youngdancecollective.

The Young Dance Collective gets to meet Merce Cunningham at the annual STREB benefit at the STREB Labs for Action Mechanics

Photo by Yk Hong

A choreographic game for one thousand bodies

Dates: September 13 – 30 2006, Wednesday – Saturday, 8:00 PM
Previews: (No Press Review): September 6-8 2006

The Young Dance Collective has been invited to perform in the continuation of the site-specific piece AGORA originally created and directed by Noémie Lafrance in 2005 in the abandoned McCarren Park pool in Brooklyn. Inspired by the “Agora,” the center of town or marketplace in ancient Greece, AGORA II investigates the role of public space in contemporary urban life. In this years performance the audience is invited to participate.

Site: McCarren Park Pool, Greenpoint/Williamsburg
Main Arch (Lorimer St. between Driggs & Bayard Ave.)

Tickets are player or viewer. Player allows you to participate in the dance.

Excerpts of Ask will be presented in Noémie Lafrance’s Agora.
September 13-October 1, 2005

Agora:
In celebration of the historic McCarren Park pool site, a 50,000 square foot empty pool in Williamsburg, Noémie Lafrance is creating a site-specific dance performance that invites the community to re-experience a moment in movement of this monumental public space. Agora is a site-specific dance performance inspired by the McCarren pool site and performed by 30 dancers to a multi-channel score with theatrical lighting transforming the 50,000 square foot pool into a vast staging area. Performed inside the large pool, the overlapping narratives of Agora will produce the illusion of travel through the different layers of visceral urban experiences and explore the phenomenon of agoraphobia as a social and physical reaction to urban architecture.

Ask is an evening of work by Young Dance Collective. Asking questions about their world, their lives and their art form, the members of Young Dance Collective embarked on a creative process which is presented in Ask.

Of their performance in the Oct ‘04 Terry Dean & Katie Present* DANCEOFF!, at PS122, Quinn Batson of Culturebot.org wrote:

“Young Dance Collective, a group of protodancers with an average age of ten, gave every fiber of themselves to performing. It was a joy to watch these kids give staple dance movements fresh life, and their enthusiasm was contagious.”

Young Dance Collective wants to know what questions you ask yourselves, what do you think about art, about life, about the possibilities for change or if change is even necessary. Can art make a difference in peoples’ lives