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Frontera

Dana Gingras / Animals of Distinction

Oct 12th - 13th, 2023 Partner The Arts Center - NYU Abu Dhabi

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi for the presentation of FRONTERA by Dana Gingras.

A visually stunning spectacle of propulsive dance, powerful live post-rock, and dazzling lighting. In FRONTERA, choreographer Dana Gingras explores spaces of inclusion and exclusion, tackling borders as boundaries between the public and private realms. Animals of Distinction’s nine dancers — their bodies mapped in high resolution, their destinies unresolved — contend with the ideas of 'a real or imaginary dividing line’ and the extreme limits of understanding. United Visual Artists creates a spectacular world of light. Paired with Fly Pan Am’s live, gripping, post-rock beats and field recordings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Dave Bryant, they form a dynamic, visual conversation between choreography, architecture, and sound. In an era of accelerated climate change, mass migration and corporate surveillance, the human body has never been rendered so visible, subject to increasingly invasive forms of oversight and processing. What space remains for the unruly, ungovernable body?

Photo: © Yannick Grandmont

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Dana Gingras

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi for the presentation of FRONTERA by Dana Gingras.

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The Arts Center - NYU Abu Dhabi

In 2024, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi for the presentation of 3 shows for the season 2024-2025 and presents as well a Brown x Soulier program of the Trisha Brown Dance Company.

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