Dances For A Variable Population/Naomi Goldberg-Haas creates work with dancers ranging in age from 22-92.  For our performances at Joyce SoHo, Oct 13-15, 2011, we are rethinking some of our dances created for outdoor spaces. We are also re-staging choreography created with dancers in residencies outside of NYC.  This “Mambo” from our popular show “Street. Straight. Mambo. Disco.” was created during a residency at The Yard in Chilmark, MA and then performed in the outdoor Downtown Dance Festival at Chase Plaza.  The work was created  in collaboration with Sandy Broyard, who had a nightclub act in Paris in the 1960’s and Kathy Joyce Costanza, a founder of Vineyard Dance, the oldest established dance company in Martha’s Vineyard.  Here’s a clip of how we are working.

Mambo for OUT TO IN - Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For A Variable Population
Video by Don Mount
Dancers: Sandy Broyard and Kathy Joyce Costanza; Jamie Graham and Ani Javian
OUT TO IN, rehearsal for Joyce SoHo, Oct 13-15, 2011
Naomi Goldberg Haas/Dances For A Variable Population

In other news, we are excited about our new pieces set to a collage of ideas from Jad Abumrad’s Radiolab NYC*.  Guest performers to DVP company include Chad Lindsey, who recently played Sascha in Pig Iron Theatre’s Obie award-winning Chekhov Lizardbrain, and Dina Paisner, who worked Judith Malina and Julian Beck’s Living Theater in its founding years.

Purchase tickets now for Dances for a Variable Population at Joyce SoHo Oct 13-15 7:30pm.

*Radiolab is a production of WNYC Radio.  You can hear more Radiolab programs and download the podcast at radiolab.org