Touring Work
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Cristóbal
Vivar
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Where Shall I Send My Joys?
an evening-length work
Featuring dancers Maia Ramnath, Cecilia Fontanesi, and Artistic Director Julie Ludwick. The project explores loss and grief and how it can be balanced by cultivating and sharing the joys of everyday life. More info on how the project began can be seen HERE.
Conceived and Directed by Julie Ludwick and Created in Collaboration with dancers Cecilia Fontanesi and Maia Ramnath.
Original Music by Paul Uhry Newman & Ken Pierson
Cinematography Cristóbal Vivar
Lighting Design Miriam Crowe
Dramaturgy James Bosley
Costumes Jane Catherine Shaw
Workshops on Cultivating Joy are also available in conjunction with performances of the work. You can see a blog post on past workshops HERE
The Joy Project was developed with the support of a 2021-22 CUNY Dance Initiative Residency at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College. Further support came from the New York City Artist Corps.
About Fly-by-Night Dance
Fly-by-Night Dance Theater is a Modern Dance company committed to stretching the boundaries of Aerial Dance into expressive territory. In addition to producing multiple seasons of repertory since 1999, the company has also presented nine NYC Aerial Dance Festivals showcasing aerial artists from across the United States, numerous college dance residencies, and multiple Free-for-Kids Projects, allowing audience members 18 years of age and under to attend free performances and workshops. The company is committed to diversity amongst in its community; scholarship auditions for the BIPOC community have been offered annually for over 15 years as a way to diversify their classes and community and scholarships for the LGBTQIA+ community began in the fall of 2023.
Dancing with single point apparatus gives the choreography an improvisational edge and creates an acute awareness between the performers and audiences. This heightened awareness blends with emotional intensity resulting in stimulating performances.
Communities can experience the work on a deeper level through pre and/or post performance workshops or discussions.
About Julie Ludwick
Ludwick has created dozens of dances for Fly-by-Night Dance Theater for numerous NYC venues including The Flea Theater, PS 122, Dixon Place, The Kitchen, and Mabou Mines Theater as well as colleges around the U.S.. In 2022 Ludwick’s evening-length work, Where Shall I Send My Joys? was presented by the CUNY Dance Initiative and the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College. The company’s repertory has evolved to include evening-length pieces with video projection, theater, and live original music.
Ludwick’s Somatic Aerial Dance Technique has been featured in Dance Magazine, Paper Magazine, Time Out NY, and in a video documentary from AfterEd TV as an outstanding alum of Teachers College, Columbia University. Her theater credits include work for Mapou Production’s “How Papa Noel Forgot Haiti” at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall starring Danny Glover. Her work has received support from: NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Mabou Mines Artists’ Suite, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Meet the Composer, The Puffin Foundation, Frances Alexander Family Fund, Northern Manhattan Artist Alliance, The Cartwheel Foundation, The Kathryn and Ador Elnes Fund, The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, The New York City Council, and City Artists Corps, among others.
Ludwick currently teaches community class for Fly-by-Night, is on the performing arts faculty at Wagner College in Staten Island, NY, and does Somatic classes as part of the Paul Taylor School’s Winter and Summer Intensives.