Everything
PREMIERE Zawirowania Dance Theater, Warsaw, Poland June 2019
Everything is a dance performance installation evoking the ever-expanding universe, transforming the performance space into a constellation of stars and human bodies in various states of formation and explosion. Inspired by astrophotography, string theory, interconnectivity, and meditations on space and time, Everything weaves together a visual, physical, and emotional translation of the cosmos.
The work began as a cultural exchange and collaboration in progress between Valerie Green/Dance Entropy and Zawirowania Dance Theatre spanning New York City and Warsaw in 2019. It has since expanded into a transportable, movable, and collaborative concept that is process focused. The work is intended to travel for collaboration, replicating the long distance and cross-cultural exchange process, culminating in a different performative result each time. The work also utilizes local musicians and dancers.
The creation process includes visual prompts, improvisational methods, and scientific research, which is done both virtually and in person by gathering the movement pallet, and inserting into a set story board configuration at rehearsals. The work is transformative and engaging for both scientific and cultural performing arts communities & organizations.
Everything at Anatolia College Photographer: Mohamed Sulaiman · Event/Program: Play Perform Learn Grow Festival · Location: Thessaloniki, Greece
Everything at Zawirowania Dance Theater Photographer: Bertosz Zaleweski · Event/Program: International Dance Theatre Festival Zawirowania · Location: Zawirowania Dance Theater
Everything at MoMI Photographer: Natalia Sanchez · Location: Museum of the Moving Image
Everything at Green Space Photographer: Alex Lopez · Location: Green Space
Everything at The Unisphere Photographer: Alex Lopez · Location: Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens
Everything at Museum of Science Boston Photographer: James Monroe · Location: Boston, MA
CHOREOGRAPHY Valerie Green, in collaboration with the dancers
RUNNING TIME 32 minutes
NUMBER OF DANCERS 6 dancers
DANCE PARTNERS / COLLABORATORS Zawirowania Dance Theatre, Model Dance School of the Municipality of Kalamaria, Urbanity Dance, Open Space Dance
MUSICIANS / COLLABORATORS Mark Katsaounis, Gniewomir Tomczyk, Juan David Garzon, Nate Tucker, Joseph Johnson, Luigi Genarro, Paul Evansmith
PRESENTED BY Museum of the Moving Image, NYC • New York Hall of Science, NYC • Lewis Latimer House Museum, NYC • The Unisphere, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NYC • Central Park, NYC • Green Space, NYC • Museum of Science, Boston • Museum of Science and Industry, Portland, OR • Zawirowania Dance Theatre, Poland • Play Perform Learn Grow Festival, Greece
Press
“Through movement that is at once mesmerizing yet surprising, familiar yet strange, Valerie Green/Dance Entropy’s Everything channels the universe’s mundane and majestic. The performance pulses with creative interpretations of string theory and stellar dynamics, and somehow goes beyond representing the essence of things and manages to channel the way of things. Valerie Green and company prove the process of dance — from creation to performance —-shares in the larger process of the cosmos.”
“The way that Green weaved together science and movement was beautiful and thought provoking, the group movement activity afterwards made for a very unique experience, the audience loved.”
“Everything evokes many kinds of dynamics and interactions from physics in a clever way; the ideas are integrated in the choreography such that the piece is interesting as dance on its own. As a physicist it continuously inspired thoughts about physics and about dance as well. ”