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Photo: Isabel Asha Penzlien
Greetings,

With the changing of the clocks this past weekend, we here at YSDT are springing full speed ahead into an exciting new season in New York City, featuring an all-new evening-length work with original sound score, text and movement. We hope you will join us as our latest production, The Store, unfolds. Whoever said April showers bring May flowers, anyway? This spring we are blooming early.

Enjoy!
In This Issue
WORLD PREMIERE: The Store, April 1-5
YSDT Awarded MCAF Grant
Upcoming Performances
Reflection: YSDT in Ohio
The Store, world premiere April 1-5
Al Bikr


Photo: Isabel Asha Penzlien

Through original text, video and movement, The Store provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of six individuals from different generations, neighborhoods, professions, and ethnic backgrounds and explores how a diverse group of near-strangers is affected by one unforseen and shocking event. In this new dance/theatre piece, King's athletic, off-balance and highly emotive choreography conveys what lies at the heart of human relationships. Both touching and comical, The Store overlaps a series of solos, duets, trios and larger group sections, both danced and on film, which are as often tangential, stream-of-consciousness and free association as they are straight narrative.
Sound design by Mike Berberich, costumes by L.E.S designer Daphne Corell, lighting by Yuriy Nayer.Dancers: Autumn Burnette, Chris DelPorto, Sara Genoves-Sylvan, Josiah Guitian, Sabrina Jaafar, Shayla-Vie Jenkins, Kristin Osler and Katie Schetlick.


Teatro la Tea
107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
F,V,J,M,Z to Delancey

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!

http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=STO15
 YSDT awarded MCAF Grant

We are proud to announce that the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting artists serving the communities of Manhattan, has awarded YSDT a grant in support of The Store. This is our second grant awarded to our upcoming project, and this generous funding continues to make our work as a company possible. Thank you to the MCAF!

Upcoming Performances

E- Moves: April 18th and 23rd
 
Al Bikr

Join us for the 10th Anniversary edition of E-Moves at Harlemstage, where YSDT has been selected to present Al-Bikr as an Evolving Artist. Performed by Samar Haddad King and Josiah Guitian.

For ticket information please visit:
www.harlemstage.org





Photo: Danillo Hess

Jacob's Pillow: August 20th

Catch YSDT for free at this year's Inside/Out Festival in Becket, MA! Just a three hour trip from NYC.

For directions please visit:
www.jacobspillow.org
Best,
 

Samar Haddad King
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
YSDT in Columbus, Ohio
Al Bikr

For a second consecutive year, YSDT was invited to present work at the CM2 choreography showcase in Columbus, Ohio. The performances, March 6th-8th at the Fisher Theater, were well received by an enthusiastic and diverse audience. Working with two guest artists, James Graham and Maggie Page, we performed Frozen Belief, a quartet re-worked for our fall 2008 season at the Laguardia Performing Arts Center in Queens, NY.

It was a pleasure to work with new faces, as each artist approaches the choreography from a unique perspective, and satisfying to see the work mature and adapt in this new context. The work is truly a living, constantly evolving process. We appreciate the generosity extended to YSDT by CM2 and look forward to fostering this relationship in the years to come.
 
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