Anabella Lenzu - Movement Research at the Judson Church - March 9, 2020

The night that you stopped acting/ La noche que dejaste de actuar
Choreographer and Dancer: Anabella Lenzu
Direction: Daniel Pettrow
Technology advisor: Todd Carroll
Dramaturgy: Naoko Maeshiba

The night that you stopped acting/ La noche que dejaste de actuar, questions and affirms the reality of being a creator, an artist, and a spectator. It's a reexamination of five key pieces of my repertory as well as an investigation of the very nature of the creative process, asking: "If a work of dance is created in the here and now, what happens when the here and now changes? How do the changes of our circumstances, our lives, and our bodies, alter our approach as dancers and choreographers?" These are the questions from which the show was born. My work reflects my experience as a Latina/European artist living in New York and comes from a deep examination of my motivations as a woman, mother, and immigrant.

**This piece is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC). It was developed at CUNY Dance Initiative at Lehman College 2019-2020 and funded in part by generous grants from Edward Foundation Arts Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, MATERIALS FOR THE ARTS, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs/NYC Department of Sanitation/NYC Department of Education and private donations.

Videography by The Fleet NYC LLC
Movement Research at the Judson Church
March 9, 2020