January eight, 2024
New York Ballet
David Michalek is an American visible artist and filmmaker whose work is carefully associated to an curiosity within the modern individual, which he explores by dwell performances, filmmaking, pictures, drawing, set up, relational aesthetics and public tasks. He usually focuses on rigorously staged marginal moments that develop density with minimal motion. Inspecting notions of durational and rhythmic time, his works intention to interact and generate intimate but open narratives.
Michalek’s set up for New York Metropolis Ballet’s 2024 Artwork Sequence, “SlowDancing/NYCB,” is a deep dive into the archive and distinctive fashion of a single ballet firm that has develop into certainly one of New York Metropolis’s most vital inventive engines and inventive pillars. of York. cultural material. Working in a realm between motion and picture, animation and stillness, theater and portray, the set up options ultra-slow movement footage of 20 of NYCB’s present dancers performing iconic moments from the corporate’s unparalleled repertoire in celebration of its season of 75 years.
Michalek’s work will probably be seen in three particular New York Metropolis Ballet Artwork Sequence performances on February third, eighth and 23rd. Tickets are $40.
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