Nocturne -PLUS- Vanessa Long Dance Company Alexandra Pinel -PLUS- Vanessa Long

About This Show

Nocturne
Alexandra Pinel

Nocturne is about the process of collecting and reassembling blurry memories that appear at night. Inspired by personal experiences as a teen club promoter in France, dancemaker Alexandra Pinel combines memories, movement, and music to create her own, unique vision of American pop as seen through the eyes of an outsider. The piece is also an ode to dance as an entryway to trance.

Vanessa Long Dance Company

The Vanessa Long Dance Company combines both theatre and dance to create pieces about social and political issues we face in everyday life. The VLDC’s work is highly theatrical and each pieces has a story to tell that is easy to understand and relatable. The hope is that through our work we can get our audience to question the status quo and work towards a better tomorrow.

About the Artists

Alexandra Pinel is a choreographer from Paris, France. Her dances have been showcased in DC at the Capitol Hill Arts Blackbox, in New York at DNA, Triskelion Arts, the House of Scandinavia, at Dixon Place and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. She was a featured artist on NPR Radio’s Blog for the anniversary of the Rite of Spring. Alexandra has choreographed music videos for Chinese band Re-TROS and Prince Rama. She collaborates frequently with luciana achugar and has performed with her at such NYC venues as JACK, The Chocolate Factory, and New York Live Arts, among other places. She has received such honors as The George Washington University’s Luther Rice Research Fellowship and a Maida Withers Dance Construction Company Award for innovation in dance.

Vanessa Long is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Vanessa Long Dance Company LLC. She graduated from West Chester University in 2014 with a B.A in Theatre and Dance. After graduating she moved straight to NYC and began choreographing and stage directing Shows, Music Videos, and Films. She has choreographed several Off Broadway shows such as “The Buttcracker”, “Who’s Afraid Of The Moon”, “Outwitting The Voice”, and “Dances Of Life And Death”. The Vanessa Long Dance Company is the Resident Dance Company at Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and recipient of the New York’s Young Artists Award by BBuzzArt and the Poet Acts Inc.

Wednesday, Sept. 2 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door

Students / Seniors
$10

Estimated Runtime
70 minutes

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Credits

Nocturne
Performed by
Kristi Cole, Shannon O’Brien, Angela Schopke, and Julie Serow
Music by
Chango Live Set
Photo Credit
Alexandra Pinel

Vanessa Long Dance Company
Tessa Anton, Esther De La Cruz, Maria Carla Spagna, Mechelle Armbruster, Emilie Paap, Joanna Farmer, Emelie Hedvall, Kristen Stuart, Elysia, Roscoe, Justin Heim, Steven Makropoulos

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