ALBANY — The performing arts centers at The Egg and the University at Albany, which jointly present Dance in Albany, present the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company at 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 18 as the final performance in the 2023-24 series.
The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company (ESDC) is the resident company of The Egg and will be joined on stage by musicians Brian Melick, Maria Zemantauski and Bob Buckley. The performance will take place at The Egg at the Empire State Plaza in downtown Albany.
Two works on the program will feature live performance of original compositions fused with an array of jazz and funk by Melick and Zemantauski. The percussionist and guitarist will play live for Falling from 2003 which was commissioned by The Egg for its 25th anniversary. Buckley, on fretless electric guitar, will join the pair in performing the music for Compas which premiered at The Egg in 2008.
The three musicians will also offer a musical interlude between the choreographic works.
The other two dances on the program premiered earlier this season and have visual arts at their core. The company’s newest work, Boundary Behavior, is set to the music of David Walther, Jr. For this presentation of the work, there will be the addition of a projected image of kite paintings by Willie Marlowe that are made from different shapes of painted triangles - equilateral, scalene and isosceles - on paper and form a collage. The fourth and final work on the program is Séance which premiered at the Opalka Gallery in December.
Prior to the performance, there will be a Prelude talk sponsored by the Dance Alliance that begins at 7:15 p.m. and will feature Sinopoli along with several of her collaborators. Tickets are $26 and are available at The Egg Box Office on the Concourse Level of the Empire State Plaza in Albany, by phone at 518-473-1845 and online at www.theegg.org. A $13 student rush price is available at the box office window that evening to those with a valid ID.
All performances in the Dance in Albany series that take place at The Egg are supported by Executive Park at 4 Tower Place in Albany.
