Fifth Avenue Blooms imagined by Van Cleef & Arpels
Performance
May 4th, 2024
To welcome spring, Fifth Avenue Blooms imagined by Van Cleef & Arpels brings New York's iconic Fifth Avenue into bloom. As part of the many cultural activities organised throughout May, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presents 900SATELLITES by Némo Flouret and In Plain Site by Trisha Brown.
For the third year in a row, the Fifth Avenue Association is working with Van Cleef & Arpels to create a blooming landscape. In May, the streets of the avenue will be transformed into a floral sketchbook created by French artist Alexandre Benjamin Navet. These installations are complemented by creative interventions and artistic performances.
To mark the occasion, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is presenting two outdoor choreographic works to the New York audience.
On May 4th and 5th 2024, Némo Flouret's latest creation 900SATELLITES will take over 550 Madison Avenue Garden, a verdant area in the middle of the city. This performance is part of an ongoing project to explore and develop choreographic interventions in public spaces and venues not dedicated to dance. 900SATELLITES brings together a multitude of dances from Némo Flouret's first piece, all gravitating around the space context as main element. The choreographer has reunited with long-time collaborators Tessa Hall, Solène Wachter and Philomène Jander, with whom he has been developing site-specific performances since 2018.
Concept and choreography Némo Flouret
Performed by Nemo Flouret, Tessa Hall, Philomène Jander, Solène Wachter
Production Margaux Roy
With the artistic assistance of Jean Lermersre
900SATELLITES by Némo Flouret
4 May, 12 noon and 2pm
5 May, 12 noon and 2pm
On May 11th, 12th and 18th 2024, Trisha Brown Dance Company presents In Plain Site by Trisha Brown, paying tribute to the choreographer's legacy of site-specific dance. Also presented at 550 Madison Avenue Garden, this programme creates a dialogue with the space, the city and the public, inviting new audiences to discover these timeless works.
Choreography Trisha Brown
Performed by the Trisha Brown Dance Company
In Plain Site by Trisha Brown
11 May, 12 noon and 2pm
12 May, 12 noon and 2pm
18 May, 12 noon and 2pm
For the past three years, Fifth Avenue Blooms imagined by Van Cleef & Arpels has been celebrating spring in a unique and artistic way. In 2023, French illustrator Charlotte Gastaut was the guest of honour. Her pop-up installation on Fifth Avenue was inspired by all the colours of nature.
Last edition, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presented American choreographer Pam Tanowitz's Heart of Hearts, performed in the streets of New York.
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Extracts of Heart of Hearts by Pam Tanowitz
à propos des artistes
Némo Flouret
In 2024, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting, in partnership with Genius Loci, Némo Flouret for his creation DANCE PARC: a playground project, an in-situ performance at the Maison Bernard.
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Trisha Brown
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presents in collaboration with Sadler's Wells Working Title by Trisha Brown in a double bill as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef festival in London.
Trisha Brown (1936-2017) is considered one of the most inventive and influential dancers and choreographers of the second half of the 20th century. Born and raised in Aberdeen, Washington, graduating from Mills College in Oakland, California, Brown studied with Anna Halprin before moving to New York City in 1961. In 1970, she formed her company and explored the terrain of her adoptive SoHo. In doing so, she embarked on a 40-year odyssey along the many paths of contemporary dance, marked by improvisation and experimentation, pushing back the limits of the body and incorporating unexpected urban and natural spaces (rooftops, walls, galleries, etc.).
She engaged collaborators who are themselves leaders in music, theater, and the visual arts, including visual artists Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, and Elizabeth Murray, and musicians Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and Alvin Curran, to name a few. With these partners, Trisha Brown has created an exceptionally varied body of over 100 dance works that pushed the limits of choreography and changed modern dance forever. Brown is also an accomplished visual artist; her drawings have been seen in exhibitions, galleries and museums throughout the world. She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in NYC.
Trisha Brown is the first woman choreographer to receive the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship “Genius Award.” She has been awarded many other honors including five fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NY ‘Bessie’ Lifetime Achievement Award, the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, and the Dance/USA Honors Award. She has been named a Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame, Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the government of France.
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Pam Tanowitz
In 2025, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels presents Neither Drums Nor Trumpets by Pam Tanowitz in collaboration with the Royal Ballet and Opera as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels festival in London.
