Anne Nguyen
Graphic Cyphers
World Premiere
Sep 23 & Sep 25, 2016
Fri, Sep 23 at 2pm (new date)
Roberto Clemente Plaza
149th and 3rd Avenue, South Bronx
Fri, Sep 23 at 6:30pm
The Bronx Museum of the Arts
1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx
Sun, Sep 25 at 2:30 and 4:30pm
Times Square, Broadway Plaza
between 46th & 47th Street
Gather around twenty of New York’s most talented street dancers for a radical re-take on the traditional cypher. Your perspective and position shifts with the action as constellations of dancers perform astonishing moves. This multi-site world premiere will morph as it is performed in three different locations.
Free and open to the public.
Commissioned by Dancing in the Streets and Crossing the Line Festival.
Co-presented with The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Times Square Arts in partnership with Gibney Dance.
Supported in part by the New York City Housing Authority, NEA “Our Town” initiative, King’s Fountain, and FUSED.
Part of BRIDGING: A French-American Dialogue on Diversity and Inclusion in the Arts, an initiative supported by The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations
“I seek to reconcile the peculiarities of hip-hop with demanding theatrical performance to question the place of human beings in the modern-day world.”
Breakdance world champion Anne Nguyen has spent the past decade bringing the art of hip-hop and dance battle from the street to the stage. Throwing abstracted choreography into collision with geometry, architecture, and human experience, she celebrates hip-hop dancers’ technical and expressive prowess. A rising star in France, Nguyen makes her US debut at Crossing the Line with two works.