Metropolitan Playhouse
Virtual Playhouse
Presents

METROPOLITAN IN MOTION: 2021

Featuring New Works by Choreographers
AMANDA SELWYN, RACHAEL KOSCH & ADRIANA SANANES,
ANTONIA FRANCESCHI, CATHERINE THARIN, & HANNAH NEWMAN-PAN

www.MetropolitanPlayhouse.org/metinmotion
Metropolitan Playhouse at YouTube.com

March 3, 2021, 8 p.m.
Available online through Saturday, March 6, 2021

Metropolitan Playhouse inaugurates its new series, “The Wednesday Alternative”, with this contemporary dance production. Presented on film with great videography, the choreographers strut their signature styles.

First is “The Bells of St. Genevieve” by CATHERINE THARIN. Dancer Sarah Bauer floats elegantly, a barefoot waif in white, to music with an exotic eastern vibe. The intriguing “Madam Excerpt”, in contrast, starts with a hunched, black-shrouded figure (RACHAEL KOSCH) creeping about. She created the dance with ADRIANA SANANES. Wait for the magic on this one!

“The Kiss of Judas”, choreographed and performed by HANNAH NEWMAN-PAN, opens a new vista that includes side-by-side film clips and outdoor performance. Ballet style enters with “Suddenly Singing/Everyone Sang” to beautiful music played by DANIEL HOPE on violin and JACQUES AMMON on piano. AMANDA SELWYN and her dancers wrap it up with full orchestral music and multiple visual frames of dancers in the snow, outdoors, and indoors.

METROPOLITAN IN MOTION: 2021 is just what the doctor ordered: a “happy pill” to shake off the winter blues. Gorgeous body movement, sunshine even in the snow. An absolute “upper” for the soul.

-Karen D’Onofrio-