Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith make dances together by constructing improvisational practices into a mutual experience of performance. Seemingly conjoined at times, or forcefully in opposition – this performance is a living, breathing, thumping manifestation of a profound and raw artistic collaboration.
Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith present the New York City premiere of Body Comes Apart, an intimate duet based on a dynamic improvisational score. Lieber and Smith, who were nominated for a 2013 Bessie Award for Emerging Choreographer (Lieber also won a 2016 Outstanding Performer Bessie “for her introspective and tenacious performances”), focus their work on the bodily desire to heal oneself in connection with others.
Body Comes Apart is a declaration of love, commitment, catharsis, and rage. Continuing their ten year challenge of making work based in abstraction but in response to trauma, the work “… uses the potentialities of our bodies to challenge perceptions of female identity and to understand the multiplicity of joy, pain, and suffering,“ state the creators.
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Molly Lieber + Eleanor Smith: Body Comes Apart
First Preview: Feb 22, 2019
Opening Date: Mar 6, 2019
Closing Date: Mar 9, 2019
Running Time: 01:05
Playing @
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th Street, New York City, NY 10011
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
Performance Schedule
WEDNESDAY thru SATURDAY @ 7:30 PM
Choreography
- Lieber and Smith
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Full-price tickets:
$15.00 - $20.00
Video
Dance in Process: Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith from Gibney on Vimeo.
Basketball Teaser from Performance Space 122 on Vimeo.
Reviews
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“These women are tied together. One would carry the other across a desert, it seems, if they didn’t kill each other first.” --- The New York Times
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“These women are tied together. One would carry the other across a desert, it seems, if they didn’t kill each other first.” --- The New York Times
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“These women are tied together. One would carry the other across a desert, it seems, if they didn’t kill each other first.” --- The New York Times
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“These women are tied together. One would carry the other across a desert, it seems, if they didn’t kill each other first.” --- The New York Times
Accessibility
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Box Office
Lobby level; accessible -
Restroom
The ground floor restrooms and theater are wheelchair accessible. -
Elevator/Escalator
Elevator to all floors -
Telephone
None on premises -
Entrance
The lobby is accessible via the double doors to the left of the revolving door at 219 W 19th Street. -
Wheelchair Info
The first floor lobby is a communal public space and wheelchair accessible via the street facing double doors next to the main entrance at 219 W 19th Street. Theater, dressing rooms and 3rd floor studios are accessible by elevator. Restrooms throughout the building and theater are wheelchair accessible. -
Folding Armrests
None available -
Parking
Street parking only -
Water Fountain
Lobby level; wheelchair accessible
