CounterPointe: London Edition

Julia K. Gleich’s “Speak Easy Secrets”, featuring dancers Miyako Asano and Michelle Buckley

”To the Edge” by Briar Adams of Hack Ballet, featuring Adams, Shardae-Rose Angel, Cherese Binedell, Akiyo Ishihashi, Thomas McCann, Kindall Payne, Arianna Pisano, Joshua Royal, Natasha Usmar

”Discotheque” by Sophie Adams and Aisling Cook of Ballet Ensemble London, featuring Cook, Adams, and Jed Perez

Choreographer Jennifer Jackson working with dancer Zoe Arshamian on “Retrieving the Sylph,” a solo which Jackson described as “reach[ing] back to an historical moment in ballet - women rising on to pointe to evoke the world of the ‘other’, the imagination, the Sylph.”

”Encounter” by Carys Applebee, featuring dancer Laura Boulter and Nina Mettraux

”Marian’s Lament” by Deborah Kate Norris, featuring dancers Christina Gibbs, Gabrielle Orr, and Melissa Higham

CounterPointe: London Edition
a new performance series

presented in collaboration with The Broadway Theatre and Norte Maar
curated by Julia K. Gleich

Jun 18-19, 2013

Tues, June 18 at 8pm
+ Post-Performance Talk with Susie Crow
Wed, June 19 at 8pm

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The Broadway Theatre
Barking, London

Featuring choreography by:
Briar Adams / Hack Ballet
Sophie Adams & Aisling Cook / Ballet Ensemble London
Carys Applebee
Deborah Kate Norris
Jennifer Jackson
and Julia K. Gleich

CounterPointe Programme (PDF)

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CounterPointe is dedicated to presenting new choreography in ballet by women dance makers working with the pointe shoe. This is the first season of CounterPointe presented in London. Investigating new and old territory the series highlights new work, opening up discussion, and creating a forum for women, young or old, emerging or established, to take risks. CounterPointe was created in Brooklyn in 2012, conceived, organised and curated by Julia K. Gleich, the programme was produced in collaboration with Norte Maar and Brooklyn Ballet.