“Coming Together/Attica” premieres in New York

After three-years in development, CT/A ran for six sold-out performances The Invisible Dog Art Center, June 2013. The success of the production would not have been possible without my extraordinary collaborators: Dancers Asli Bulbul, Pierre Guilbault, Jennifer Lafferty, Rashaun Mitchell, Christopher Ralph and Silas Riener; the music ensemble Newspeak featuring Mellissa Hughes, voice; James Johnston, keyboard; Taylor Levine, guitar; David T. Little, drums; Eileen Mack, clarinets; Peter Wise, percussion; and special guests: Robert Burkhart, cello and Patti Kilroy, violin; lighting designer Davison Scandrett; and costume designer Mary Jo Mecca.

The production sparked interest from a wide range of publications. In addition to being the Pick-of the-Week in The New York Times, feature articles were published in I Care If You Listen, CultureBot, ClassicalTV, ArtsonAir, and Exit Strata. For several of these online journals, it was the first time they featured extensive interviews with a choreographer. The performance was also highlighted on the PBS television program NYArts on Channel THIRTEEN and on France’s television program ARTE TV. George Grella, in Culturebot, implored “get out from underground and go see it!”

The reviews were unanimously excellent and published in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, Lucid Culture, and I Care If You Listen. Alastair Macaulay, the lead dance critic of The New York Times wrote “Rebecca Lazier’s new 50-minute ‘Coming Together/Attica’ has an exciting immediacy. Its structure gives it drama. So does its action, which comes extremely close to the audience…. staggering degrees of violence in partnering: on several occasions one dancer hurls another to the floor with alarming force. The excellent six performers, admirably diverse in physique, are outstanding.”

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