Presenters
If you are a presenter interested in receiving a press kit, please contact Heidi Latsky Dance at:

info@heidilatskydance.com
t: 212-268-0976

For booking information please contact:

Ivan Sygoda

Director of Pentacle
(DanceWorks, Inc.)

ivans@pentacle.org
t: 212-278-8111 extension 300
www.pentacle.org


IF Cast
(includes both sections)

Simi Linton
David Linton
Claude Louissaint
Terrance Hewitt
Thomas Vallette
Ambar Gonzalez
David Harrell
Jillian Leigh Hollis
Jenny Rocha
Robert Simpson
Stephanie Busia
Gregory Youdan Jr.
Meredith Fages
Eve Packer
Elfie Knecht
Heidi Latsky
Jeffrey Freeze
Christina Briggs-Winslow

GIMP Roster
(includes all of cast 1 & 2)

Heidi Latsky
Jeffrey Freeze
Christina Briggs-Winslow
Catherine Long
Lawrence (Larry) Carter-Long
Li Chiao-Ping
Meredith Fages
Gregory Youdan Jr.
Jillian Leigh Hollis
Akemi Nishida
Toby Macnutt
David Harrell

Current Touring Projects


IF (Premiere December 2010)

Heidi Latsky Dance's current work in progress.
Widely recognized for the virtuosity, passion and intensity she brings, Latsky's new work is no exception and takes the 2008 critically acclaimed GIMP, a portrayal of "the other" as extraordinary, to a new level.
 
IF is a tapestry of movement featuring original music by Chris Brierley and Randall Woolf. With a 20-person, multicultural, multigenerational cast of all abilities, Latsky again dissolves the boundaries of traditional dance and explores complex new terrain by giving a collective voice and space to this diverse company of dancers.

GIMP (2008)

GIMP: 'gimp (gimp)
1. a ribbonlike, braided fabric
2. fighting spirit; vigor
3. a lame person
4. slang; a halting, lame walk
5. to turn, vacillate, tremble ecstatically
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GIMP redefines virtuosity through the collision of disability and dance.  At its heart is GIMP, a 70-minute dance theatre event featuring four trained dancers and four performers with physical disabilities: an aerialist with a strong, beautiful torso and no legs; a performer whose cerebral palsy gives him a rhythmic stride like no other; a woman whose arm sensually caresses her body in a wholly unique way because it tapers into "a smooth point."[1]  Working with this new palette of limbs, GIMP "forces our eyes and minds to perceive beauty not as a static artifact of conventional perfection but as a dynamic construct of effort and intentionality," Ivan Sygoda of Pentacle, and is "a gleaming milestone in the progress of contemporary dance and theater,"  Theodore Bale of Dance Magazine.

[1]"Heidi Latsky at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA," Dance Magazine, May 2009.

BYOD, A CONCERT INFOMERCIAL (2007)

Premiered January 22, 2007 with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Museum.
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DISJOINTED (2006)

Premiered to critical acclaim in May 2006 at Danspace Project @ St Mark's Church, NYC.disjointed is an evening length piece celebrating the lives of those who endure social isolation with grace and dignity. A provoking work of theater, disjointed provides unique opportunities for community involvement and educational outreach.

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