Overview

OVERVIEW

in residence: september 11 - september 30

performances: saturday, september 24 at 6pm and sunday, september 25 at 6pm 

This September, Morphoses returns to Vineyard Arts Project to create its first-ever evening-length work, Bacchae, by Resident Artistic Director Luca Veggetti.  Veggetti and the twelve hand-picked dancers will descend on the Vineyard to create the choreographic component of the multi-disciplinary production based on Euripides dance-driven play.

The project explores Euripides’ The Bacchae through poetic choreographic theater, drawing on the power and complexity of the classic text and engaging the elemental constructions of movement, music, sound and voice. The story is stripped to its essence and placed within a limitless void sculpted by light to create an evocative interpretation of Euripides’ worldview, rather than merely reciting the narrative in choreographic translation.

Please stop by to meet the artists and get the first look before the world premiere in October at the Joyce Theater in New York City.

Morphoses

Morphoses

Morphoses is a dynamic dance company co-founded in 2007 by Christopher Wheeldon and Lourdes Lopez. The company’s mission is to revitalize dance and broaden its scope by emphasizing innovation and fostering creativity through collaboration.

For its first three years, New York City Center, New York City's premiere theater for dance, and Sadler's Wells Theatre, one of United Kingdom's most prestigious arts organizations, named Morphoses a Guest Resident Company, giving the company a home in both New York and London. Since 2007, the Company has performed at some of the world's preeminent venues including: The Vail International Dance Festival, Works and Process at the Guggenheim, the Spoleto Festival, Italy, Central Park SummerStage, The Sydney Festival, Australia, The AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, TX and Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam.

As part of the commitment to foster collaboration, the Company has commissioned a number of leading designers, composers and artists. In it's first year, award-winning designer Narciso Rodriguez created the costumes for Christopher Wheeldon's two new ballets, Fools' Paradise and Prokofiev Pas de Deux; the score for Fools' Paradise was commissioned by Morphoses from English composer, Joby Talbot. In its second year, the Company invited husband and wife designers Isabel and Ruben Toledo to create the costumes and sets respectively for Christopher Wheeldon's new work, Commedia. That same year, Narciso Rodriguez designed the costumes for Six Fold Illuminate, a ballet commissioned by Morphoses from Canadian choreographer, Emily Molnar. Most recently, the Company worked with Francisco Costa, the head designer for Calvin Klein, visual artists Hugo Dalton from London and Los Carpinteros from Cuba, and singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright.

In February 2010, Morphoses announced a new artistic model for the company following the departure of founding artistic director Christopher Wheeldon. Under a curatorial model the Company will invite artists from various disciplines to take on the role of resident artist for one season, leading the company's artistic vision for that year.

Lourdes Lopez, the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Morphoses, is a former New York City Ballet principal dancer, as well as the former Executive Director of The George Balanchine Foundation. At the Foundation, Lourdes oversaw the Balanchine Centennial Celebration in 2004, which featured events held worldwide, including an historic symposium in St. Petersburg, Russia, called "Balanchine: Past, Present and Future." Born in Havana, Lourdes is also a founder of the Cuban Artists Fund, which supports emerging Cuban and Cuban-American artists in a variety of fields.

Artists

Artists

Luca Veggetti, Resident Artistic Director

Luca Veggetti was born in Bologna, Italy and trained under I. Glowacka and G. Popescu at La Scala Milan. After a career as a dancer at London Festival Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet and Ballet Chicago, Mr. Veggetti started an on-going collaboration working as a choreographer and assistant to stage director/designer Pier Luigi Pizzi, presenting works in Europe's most important theaters with prestigious musical ensembles. In 1999, he was the first Italian of the 20th century to be invited to work with the legendary Kirov Ballet of St. Petersburg, to serve as artistic director for two dance events in Europe. He has participated in two sessions of the New York Choreographic Institute and created multiple pieces for Works & Process at the Guggenheim. Recent work includes an invitation to stage an evening dedicated to Hosokawa at the Saarbrucken festival for new music in Germany, direction and design for the Japanese premiere of Toshio Hosokawa's opera Hanjo in Suntory Hall in Tokyo, and direction, design, and choreography for the US premieres of both Iannis Xenakis' Oresteia and Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's full length dance piece Maa at the Miller Theater in New York City. Mr. Veggetti's future engagements include new pieces for the Juilliard School in New York, Perm Ballet in Russia, and the French premiere of his production Maa at the Cite' de la Musique in Paris.

Dancers

Dancers

Sarah Atkins

Christopher Bordenave

Frances Chiaverini

Brandon Cournay

Brittany Fridenstine

Gabrielle Lamb

Willy Laury

Morgan Lugo

Jonathan Ollivier

Emma Pfaeffle

Yusha-Marie Sorzano