Daniel Charon presents

Conduit - Three Dance Works
Two World Premieres • One New York Premiere
at

Joyce SoHo

April 23 - 26, 2009
Thursday, Friday, Saturday @ 8pm
Sunday @ 3pm

Tapping into the deep-rooted seeds of our individuality, NYC choreographer Daniel Charon seeks to display fresh perspectives in how we love, hate, desire, and exist inside a community. Charon returns to Joyce SoHo with a sleek and evocative grouping of physically and emotionally charged dances. Including two world premieres and one NYC premiere, Conduit - Three Dance Works points three compelling pieces toward consideration of oneʼs personal and societal relationships. At one moment robust and voluptuous, the next sinewy and edged, Charon's formidable cast lures its audience to intimate places of fervent murmurs. There is an effort to maintain a strong movement vocabulary as the prominent element in the work as Conduit seeks to better understand the parts of us that are most human. The performance features original lighting designs by Carrie Wood, an original composition by Koven Smith, and costumes by Liz Sargent and Stephanie Liapis.

Performances will take place at Joyce SoHo April 23-26, 2009 (Thursday-Saturday at 8:00, Sunday at 3:00). Joyce SoHo is located at 155 Mercer Street (between Houston and Prince Streets) in New York City. Take the R train to Prince Street, the F, V, B or D train to Broadway/Lafayette, or the 6 train to Bleecker Street. Tickets are $18. Reservations can be made by calling 212-352-3101 or by logging onto www.joyce.org.

“What makes this piece [Anyone in the World] exceptional is that aspects of relationships are
evoked, rather than alluded to, in pure dance that builds gradually in emotional intensity...”
~ Jennifer Dunning, of the New York Times

Daniel Charon has been a member of Doug Varone and Dancers since 1999 and before that danced with the Lim—n Dance Company for three years. Other performance credits include Dance Kaleidoscope, Mordine & Company, am/FM Tap Chicago, and the Red River Dance Company. Daniel has also guested with both opera and theatre companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Minnesota Opera, the Denver Opera, Music Theater of Wichita, and the Aquila Theatre Company, among others.

Daniel has been creating, presenting and producing his own choreography since 1995. Based in New York City, his work has been shown at many venues including Judson Church, Dance Theatre Workshop, WAX, the 92nd Street Y, University Settlement, the Lim—n Studio, NYU, the University of Maryland, and LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts. Daniel was a founding member of the Lim—n Dancers Choreographic Project, which supports emerging choreographers and has also been the company in residence at the Silo at Kirkland Farm, [2008]. He presented his critically-acclaimed full evening concert, Anyone in the World, at Joyce SoHo in NYC [2005] and co-choreographed Thereʼs More Than Corn in Indiana which was presented at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. He has created work on soloists at SUNY Purchase, SUNY Brockport, the North Carolina Schools of the Arts, and has choreographed numerous works at Doug Varoneʼs Annual Summer Workshops. Daniel was commissioned to choreograph new work for the d9 Dance Collective (Seattle, WA), VIA Dance Collaborative (NYC), and the Limon Instituteʼs Professional Studies Program. As well, Mr. Charon has shown his work at numerous festivals including the DUMBO Arts Festival, the American Dance Guild Festival, DancemOpolitan at Joeʼs Pub, and as part of various DanceNOW[NYC] Festivals.

Daniel has staged the works of José Lim—n, and Jir’ Kyli‡n and continues to stage the works of Doug Varone. He regularly teaches master classes and workshops all over the country.

Daniel is from Moorhead, MN and holds a BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

The creation of Joyce SoHo was made possible by the magnanimous support of the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust. Joyce SoHo is supported by private funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, First Republic Bank, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Shubert Foundation and The Starr Foundation; and by public funds from the New York City Council; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. Special support for Joyce SoHo provided by the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of the Readerʼs Digest Association, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Foundation for Contemporary Arts.

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