For Brand New Sidewalk, three-time Bessie Award-winning choreographer Beth Gill teams up with composer Jon Moniaci and lighting designer Thomas Dunn to create a sparse, elegant diptych that questions the value of formalism in dance. An evocative new work for four dancers, Brand New Sidewalk explores themes of alienation, erasure, fantasy and power through the lens of abstraction.

Places Performed
Abrons Art Center (NY)
Walker Arts Center (MN)
American Dance Festival (NC) ICA Boston (MA)
The Yard (MA) .

Runtime
45 minutes

Choreography
Beth Gill

Lighting and Scenery
Thomas Dunn

Music
Jon Moniaci

Brass quintet recorded/performed by
members of TILT Brass: Chris McIntyre, trombone/Director; Tim Leopold, trumpet; Sam Jones, trumpet; John Gattis, horn; John Altieri, tuba

Costumes
Baille Younkman

Performed by
Kevin Boateng
Maggie Cloud
Joyce Edwards
Danielle Goldman

Brand New Sidewalk is commissioned by the Walker Art Center with support provided by the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund; the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Support provided by Producers’ Council members King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury and Henry Pillsbury.

Brand New Sidewalk is supported by the National Performance Network’s (NPN) Forth Fund and is an NPN Creation Fund project created in partnership with the Walker Art Center, The Yard, American Dance Festival (ADF), and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). The Forth Fund is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Brand New Sidewalk was developed as part of LMCC’s Extended Life Dance Development program and the Center for Performance Research’s Artist in Residency program, both made possible in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Further residency support was provided by The Abrons Arts Center and The College at Brockport – SUNY.

Beth Gill is fiscally sponsored by the Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc., a non-profit organization administered by Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc). Pentacle is a non-profit management support organization for the performing arts.