VALERIE GREEN/DANCE ENTROPY TO PRESENT

RITE

FOR THREE SHOWS, FEBRUARY 29-MARCH 2, 2024

AT THE CENTER AT WEST PARK IN NEW YORK CITY

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RITE, an evening-length dance work conceived, choreographed, and directed by Valerie Green, represents a healing ceremony, a meditative ritual, and an exorcism of the ego. Performed by six men of Valerie Green/Dance Entropy (VG/DE), RITE will be given three performances at The Center at West Park in New York City, 7:30 P.M., February 29 through March 2, 2024.

RITE serves as a physical invocation of our internal struggle with self-image and societal pressure, following the vulnerable journey from form to clarity in a trance-based dance. 

“RITE carves a path through human pain, to show us what else can be waiting for us as soon as we can release what weighs us down,” says Green. “Inspired by shamanic journeying and altered states of consciousness, RITE invites us to contemplate our individual struggles and release our attachments to body and thought. It poses the question: ‘Can you get out of your own way?’”

VG/DE performers for RITE include Aidan Feldman, Johnny Matthews III, Tsubasa Nishioka, Lawson Pinder, Richard Scandola, and Ethan Schweitzer-Gaslin. The work is set to recordings by Danheim, Lannka-AIWAA, Cobanny, Ancestral Elephants, Poranqui/Liquid Bloom/Eric Zang, and Mary Isis, Costumes are designed by Irena Romendik and Valerie Green, with lighting design by Kathy Kaufman.

For more information, please visit www.danceentropy.org.