HOME

PREMIERE  Gibney Dance Center, New York City, September 2022

HOME conceived and directed by Valerie Green, is an international cross- collaborative dance project with choreographers from six countries: Maria Naidu (Sweden), Ashley Lobo (India), Souleymane Badolo (Burkina Faso), Sandra Paola López Ramírez (Colombia), Bassam Abou Diab (Lebanon), and Dance Entropy’s Artistic Director Valerie Green (US). These esteemed choreographers were commissioned by Green to create a work for her company examining the meaning of home from their unique perspectives, drawing upon the significance of this concept in their home countries.

As part of the project, she invited each choreographer to work with Dance Entropy in two-week residencies in New York City. Directed by Green, the dynamic full-evening work, which weaves together the different dances, explores identity, culture, environment, ritual, history, and community.

Dance Trailers: USA | COLOMBIA | BURKINA FASO | INDIA | SWEDEN | LEBANON

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HOME at Landmark on Mainstreet Photography Alex Lopez · Event/ Program: Public Performance · Location: Landmark on Mainstreet

HOME at Gibney Dance Center Photography by: Eric Bandiero · Event/ Program: Public Performance · Location: Gibney Dance Center

 

HOME at Jamaica Dance Festival Photography Alex Lopez ·Event/ Program: Public Performance · Location: Rufus King Park

 
 
 

CHOREOGRAPHY Maria Naidu, Ashley Lobo, Souleymane Badolo, Sandra Paola López Ramírez, Bassam Abou Diab, Valerie Green

COSTUMES Irena Romendik

LIGHTING DESIGN Kathy Kaufmann

RUNNING TIME  90 minutes

NUMBER OF DANCERS 7 dancers

PRESENTED BY Gibney Dance Center, Landmark on Mainstreet, Flushing Town Hall, Jamaica Dance Festival, Green Space

  • Educational Offering Available and/or Young Audiences Matinee (an adapted program)

“HOME comes to audiences on the heels of a pandemic that altered our experiences of space and our ability to commune with others. With our dwellings having become places of work, art making virtual socialization, and sometimes isolation, Home invites us to consider the ways in which our personal experiences are shared globally.”
— Cecly Placenti, Dance Enthusiast
“Sequential and sweeping contemporary movement juxtaposed with music from Green’s Serbian heritage accentuates the idea that home exists within a wide community, those people we live among, and also the roots of our ancestry.”
— Cecly Placenti, Dance Enthusiast