Andary Dance and Friends -a Dancing in the Streets event

Monday, June 23 8:30 PM (Rain Date: Tues, June 24th)

Andary Dance, under the artistic direction of Nathan Andary, explores

the spatial connections to movement in/through/with the body and its

environment.

Urban living evokesa sense of time and space in the physical body pressurizing personal

interactions and quantifying the currency of “personal space”.

Andary will be presenting The Weight of Square an exploration of

spatial constructs redefined by social crowding due to imposing

architectural boundaries. A white cube and orange traffic cones place

and re-place 7 dancers to feel a sense of self in relation to the crowd

and crowding. Engulfed by Jane Wang’s evocative soundscape, the action and

dancers illuminate the weight of surrounding constructed boundaries.

About Nathan Andary

Nathan's choreography performed internationally in Sarajevo and Canada

as well as nationally in notable theaters such as: New York City's

Center for Performance Research, Movement Research, and Merce Cunningham

Studio Theater; Washington DC's Dance Place and The Kennedy Center; New

England's Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston University, Mobius

International Gallery, Brown University, and Rhode Island College. His

work received funding from Toyota, Massachusetts Cultural Council, among

others. Nathan is the program coordinator for New York State's Summer

School of the Arts School of Dance serving directly under Carolyn Adams

and has taught for the Univ. of Maryland, Providence College, Rhode

Island College, and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Ohio

University School of Dance where he teaches Modern and Ballet

techniques, as well as Laban Movement Analysis and Dance Pedagogy.

http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/dancefest/andary