Jean Butler’s last Danspace commission, hurry (2013), invoked the choreographer’s celebrated past in Irish Step Dance. Her new duet, this is an Irish dance, created with Belfast-based cellist Neil Martin further unearths her roots by returning to the relationship between live music and movement as the compositional departure point for the work.
Inspired by the interdependent relationship between music and dance and the formal spatial relationship between dancer and musician that characterizes her tradition, the piece explores the often-invisible interplay between dancer and musician in live performance. The movement and music, created simultaneously through improvisation during the piece’s development, raise questions about who is leading and who is following.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY, THURSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
Show Finder
Jean Butler: this is an Irish dance
First Preview: Nov 1, 2015
Opening Date: Nov 17, 2015
Closing Date: Nov 21, 2015
Running Time: 01:10
Playing @
St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
131 East 10th Street, New York City, NY 10003
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
TDF Tickets Offers:
TDF Member tickets:
Not currently available for this show
Listed at 
Never
Full-price tickets:
$20.00 - $25.00
Accessibility
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Elevator\Escalator
None on Premises -
Parking
Street parking only -
Telephone
None on premises -
Water Fountain
Lower level -
Assisted Listening System
None available Audibility rarely an issue -
Entrance
Fully wheelchair accessible via ramp -
Restroom
A same-level restroom is available near Danspace Project’s main performance space in the church sanctuary. -
Wheelchair Info
Venue is wheelchair accessible
