Van Legakis, Unity Space and this summer’s “Interdisciplinary Festival of Embodiment” East Point West

The festival truly is interdisciplinary in that classes involving painting, dance on film and massage are also offered in the program schedule. Separated into performance workshops, and elective classes, participants are given the freedom to build their own experience by selecting from the diverse line-up of guests. Each artist in the performance project series will be sharing their individually developed processes: Anton Lachky with Puzzle Work, Edivaldo Ernesto with Depth Movement, Judith Sanchez Ruiz with Your Own God, Inaki Azpillaga with Powerful and Fragile and finally Vangelis Legakis with Embodied Unity.

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Review: Ritualistic Femininity and Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” in Sasha Waltz’s new creation “Women”

From the start, it’s clear that Waltz aims to highlight distinctions amongst the all-female ensemble, particularly in their movement qualities. In the many moments of unison ensemble work each dancer submits their own distinctive translation of the choreography; conveying the idea “woman” with her own arms, hands, head, feet, gaze, and so on.

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