New York Theatre Barn's Choreography Lab Live / 5.19.21
New York Theatre Barn will present its first Choreography Lab of 2021,1 Show/3 Choreographers, on Wednesday, May 19th, at 7PM EST. Taking inspiration from theatrical television events, this lab will be streamed live from Broadway Dance Center in New York City.
Emerging choreographers Tiger Brown, Kathy Liu, and Mayte Natalio, who are passionate about the development of new musicals, will each work with an ensemble of dancers to create choreography for the original musical The Lesson, written by Avi Amon, Nolan Doran (Head Over Heels), and Ty Defoe (Straight White Men), about a fantastical reimagining of a chance encounter between a revolutionary Beethoven and a more-established Mozart in Vienna in 1787. The show was featured in New York Theatre Barn’s New Works Series earlier this year. JoAnn M. Hunter (School of Rock, Harmony) will mentor Brown, Denis Jones (Tootsie, Honeymoon in Vegas) will mentor Liu, and Lorin Latarro (Mrs. Doubtfire, Waitress) will mentor Natalio.
Performers include Tatiana Barber, Yeman Brown (Jagged Little Pill), Amelia Burkhardt, Kyle Dupree, Timothy Edwards, Jordan Fife Hunt (Emojiland), AJ Lockhart (Bring It On), Olivier Medus (Porgy and Bess), Mary Page Nance (The Great Comet, Finding Neverland), Geena Quintos (Emojiland, Soft Power), Kristin Roa, Trevor Michael Schmidt (A Chorus Line), Matthew Varvar (Joseph...Dreamcoat), Brion Marquis Watson (Hamilton), Katherine Winter and Ricardo Zayas (Head Over Heels, Hamilton).
The company has again partnered with Full Out Creative who will collaborate with the choreographers to discover new ways of presenting dance for the screen, while also working with New York Theatre Barn to continue to evolve its programming and theatrical storytelling systems. All three choreographers will also join lab curator Avital Asuleen for a conversation about creating dance for the stage versus the virtual stage.
Funded in part by a generous gift from the Amber Foundation.
Lab Associate Producer: Victoria Crowser
For more information, visit: www.nytheatrebarn.org.