Marie Alonzo Snyder of West Windsor presents a world premiere production in “Ear to the Ground,” at the Chen Dance Center, in New York City, from Thursday to Saturday, May 29 to 31, at 7:30 p.m. The commissioning series was created in 1995 to support the community of emerging and mid-career Asian American artists who develop innovative and risk-taking works.##M:[more]##
Alonzo Snyder’s “Tranversations: Take me there I belong, Here” was inspired by Bengali abstract expressionist painter, Sharmista Ray. With music by British composer, Geoffrey Armes, the work integrates sets by Japanese visual artist Keiko Ishida.
“It is a visual journey exploring and traversing the various passages of acculturation, identity affirmation, self discovery, and reinvention,” she says. “It evokes streams of water that eventually connect and become one at sea” — as well as the sensibilities of the performers, each originally from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.
Originally from the Philippines and raised in Rome, Italy, Alonzo Snyder’s works have been presented in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and throughout the United States and Canada since 1986. She received her bachelor and master’s degrees in dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, eventually earning her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University.
Currently on the faculty of Princeton Dance and Theater Studio and program director for DanceVision D.A.N.C.E., Alonzo Snyder’s dissertation was one of the first scholarly investigations on the perspectives of immigrant dance makers, examining issues of diasporic identities through staged images.
The theater is located at 70 Mulberry Street. Tickets are $14. Call 212-349-0126
