Peter Stathas Dance
presents
the Virtual Premiere of
WHAT WE HAVE TO GIVE
June 18-20, 2021
https://secure.givelively.org/event/peter-stathas-dance-inc/what-we-have-to-give-fundraiser/what-we-have-to-give
The piece is available from June 18, 2021 at 7pm ET through June 20, 2021 at
10pm ET.
Featuring
TY GRAYNOR, SELINA HACK, ANDREW McSHEA, PAULINA
MENESES, JESSE OBREMSKI, EMILEE PRATT, SASHA RYDLIZKY, & LAUREN TWOMLEY
PETER STATHAS has taken the lemons of COVID isolation and made a beautiful
layered visual serving of art and heart.
With no ensemble work possible,
STATHAS contacted his dancers, encouraging them to stay active and motivated.
WHAT WE HAVE TO GIVE is the result of this remote yet collaborative effort. Each
dancer was to express the “now” they were feeling. The outcome is this series of
solos and one duet radiating pain and isolation while at the same time beaming
sunshine and hope.
It begins in Chicago in May, 2020. We move to Brooklyn
for June. A sadder note. Brooklyn in July on a roof garden. Roosevelt Island in
September. Queens in October, Manhattan in December. A new year dawns in North
Carolina. Each dancer is more brilliant than the next, each month more
evocative.
Kudos to all the brilliant talent involved in this film.
-Karen D’Onofrio-