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What do we choose to carry forward and what do we leave behind? This special double bill performance of New York City-based dance artists celebrates the breadth of ways in which legacy informs contemporary dance. Join us for this thought-provoking and viscerally moving performance before heading to the Illumination Night fireworks!

Nattie Trogdon and Hollis Bartlett are performers, choreographers, educators, and creative partners whose collaborative work spans dance, film, and research-based practices that challenge conventional ideas of performance and personhood. Their work has been presented at leading New York venues and festivals, including LMCC’s River to River Festival, Gibney, Movement Research at Judson Church, and the 92nd Street Y, and they have held residencies at organizations such as Marble House, Mana Contemporary, and The Atlantic Center for the Arts. As performers, teachers, and writers, they have collaborated with acclaimed artists including Kathy Westwater, Joanna Kotze, David Dorfman, and Doug Varone, while contributing writing to publications such as Critical Correspondence and Imagining Journal. Nattie + Hollis will present Corpus Corpus, a work in process. Corpus Corpus plays on structures of symmetry, variation, and counterpoint0 presenting an illusion of unison and coalescing forms.  

Founded in 2012, Alison Cook Beatty Dance is a classically-based modern dance company exploring the universal human condition through expansive and emotionally-driven movement grounded in American modern dance whole exploring new approaches to finding creative expression. The company will perform three works from their repertory including HER(E), a timely new piece which examines visibility, power, and the unseen forces that shape human behavior.