About The Legacy of Inheritance

Description

World Premiere
Paired with music by Zoe Keating and Stars of the Lid, Stefanie Batten Bland’s The Legacy of Inheritance fuses European and American styles into a contemplative exploration of bodies in motion alongside the powers of nature.

*Zoe Keating “Frozen Angels” and “We Insist” from the album “One Cello x 16: Natoma”
Stars of the Lid “Dopamine Clouds over Craven Cottage” and “That Finger on your Temple is the Barrel of my Raygun” from the album “And Their Refinement of The Decline”

Choreographer

Stefanie Batten Bland shares her time between Paris and New York. She fuses her past experiences with choreographers and directors such as Bill T. Jones, Lar Lubovitch, Jerome Savary, Georges Momboye, Angelin Preljocaj, Julie Taymor, and Pina Bausch to create distinct multi-disciplinary futuristic environments for stage and film. Ms. Bland’s recent commercial credits include “So You Think You Can Dance – Poland,” ads and industrials for Guerlain perfume, Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, Dance Mania, and Louis Vuitton. She is a 2010 Jerome Robbins NEW Fellow at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. In spring of 2011, Ms. Bland set a work on The Ailey School.

Performance Schedule

There are no upcoming performances for this repertory piece.

Choreography

Stefanie Batten Bland

Music

Various Artists*

Décor

Stefanie Batten Bland

Costumes

Jessica Dunham

Lighting

Alaric E. Hahn

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