GLITCH

GLITCH
Dancers Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon
Choreographer Norbert De La Cruz III
Visual Artist Virginia Wagner
Filmmaker Kristin Sztyk

Digital Performance Excerpt
Premieres on YouTube on Friday, March 26 @ 7:00pm
CLICK HERE TO VIEW

British artist, filmmaker, writer, and queer activist Derek Jarman’s memoir “Chroma”, a meditation on the color spectrum written and published during the AIDS crisis, will serve as the point of departure for “Glitch”, the latest work-in-process in Bridge Street Theatre’s ongoing Winter Dance Residency Initiative. Jarman’s work also serves as a model for a collective process that will integrate performance, film, and visual art.

“Glitch” was originally commissioned by the “Works & Process” program at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Choreographer Norbert De La Cruz III has recently been developing the piece on dancers Adrian Danchig-Waring and Joseph Gordon, with visual artist Virginia Wagner and filmmaker Kristin Sztyk collaborating to create the visual environment. They have just completed a Works & Process bubble residency at Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli and have now transitioned into a two-week-long residency in Catskill (from March 16 – 27) where the evolving work will be filmed on Bridge Street Theatre’s Mainstage, “The Priscilla”.

A free online video excerpt will be available to the public beginning at 7:00pm ET Friday March 26 on the Bridge Street Theatre YouTube channel. Links to this video excerpt will also be posted on BST’s website (BridgeStreetTheatre.org), Facebook page and Twitter account on the afternoon of its March 26th premiere.

Bios

Adrian Danchig-Waring

Adrian Danchig-Waring is a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet where he’s collaborated with many of today’s renowned choreographers and performed an active repertoire of masterworks by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. He has originated featured roles in works by Kim Brandstrup, Eliot Feld, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Wayne McGregor, Benjamin Millipied, Angelin Preljocaj, Justin Peck, Alexei  Ratmansky, and Liam Scarlett, among others. Mr. Danchig-Waring has received international recognition performing on major stages throughout the Americas, Europe, and China. He was a founding member of Christopher Wheeldon’s company Morphoses, with which he toured from 2005-2008. 

Mr. Danchig-Waring is the Director of the New York Choreographic Institute: an incubator for the development of new work in the field of classical and contemporary ballet. The Institute, in partnership with NYU Tisch School of the Arts and The Juilliard School, is committed to cultivating the next generation of diverse choreographic voices of the 21st century.  

Since 2014 Mr. Danchig-Waring has worked with New York City Ballet’s education department and The Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center to develop and disseminate a methodology of movement workshops for children and young adults with CP. 

Mr. Danchig-Waring is a Director of the Board of the George Balanchine Foundation. He was a 2017/18 research fellow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts,  Jerome Robbins Dance Division and is currently a Young Leaders Fellow with the  National Committee on United States – China Relations.

Joseph Gordon

Joseph Gordon was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and began his dance training at the age of five at The Phoenix Dance Academy. Mr. Gordon began studying at the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, during the 2006 summer course and enrolled as a full-time student that fall. In August of 2011, Mr. Gordon became an apprentice with NYCB, and in July of 2012, he joined the Company as a member of the corps de ballet. He was promoted to soloist in February 2017 and to Principal Dancer in October 2018.

Since joining the Company, he has performed featured roles in ballets choreographed by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alexei Ratmansky, Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, August Bournonville and Justin Peck. Additionally, he originated featured roles in Benjamin Millepied’s Neverwhere, Matthew Neenan’s The Exchange, Alexei Ratmansky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, and Troy Schumacher’s Common Ground, as well as corps roles in Kim Brandstrup’s Jeux and Justin Peck’s Everywhere We Go and Year of the Rabbit.

Mr. Gordon is the recipient of a 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, and was the 2015-16 Janice Levin Dancer Honoree. While at the School of American Ballet, he was the recipient of the Melissa Hayden Dance Scholarship from 2006 through 2011. 

Mr. Gordon has also performed on stages around the world including the the Théatre du Châtelet of Paris, Bunkamura Festival Hall of Tokyo, Copenhagen Royal Opera House, Tivoli Gardens Theater, and has been a guest artist at the Vail International Dance Festival since 2014. He was recently profiled in the New York Times Arts and Leisure section in February of 2020.

Norbert De La Cruz III

Norbert De La Cruz III is a Filipino-American dance artist and freelance choreographer. He was born in the Philippines and raised in Los Angeles. With a BFA in Dance from Juilliard and an MFA in dance from Hollins, his choreographic and teaching career has earned him a Princess Grace Award under the choreography fellowship, a Jerome Robbins Foundation N.E.W. grant, a Winning Works recognition form the Joffrey Academy of Dance, the Youth America Grand Prix’s Outstanding Choreographer Award, and was featured as Dance Magazine’s top 25 to watch. 

His extensive performance career includes dancing soloist positions for the Metropolitan Opera, Aszure Barton & Artists in Germany, Balletto Teatro di Torino of Italy, Santa Clarita Ballet, Lustig Dance Theatre, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Boca Tuya, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He was the representative for Juilliard at the first annual Dizzy Feet Foundation Gala and was recently cast in the film adaptation of Tony-winning musical In The Heights. Since then, Norbert has been commissioned for new works from The Juilliard School, Hubbard Street 2, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Ballet X, Joffrey Academy of Dance, Tulsa Ballet II,  and Grand Rapids Ballet, among others. www.NorbertDeLaCruziii.com @Norbert.DeLaCruz.iii

Virginia Wagner

Virginia Wagner is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA from Oberlin College in Studio Art and Creative Writing and her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art’s Hoffberger School of Painting. She has been granted residencies at Brush Creek (WY), Byrdcliffe with a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship (NY), VCCA (VA), the Edward Albee Foundation (NY), Jentel Foundation (WY), Ucross (WY), Vermont Studio Center (VT), and Yale Norfolk (CT), and received the 2016 Lotos Prize in Painting. Her portrait series has been featured on BBC Radio’s The Cultural Frontline and in a short documentary entitled The Gender Line, which premiered at the Williamsburg Independent Film Festival. In 2019, she was commissioned by National Geographic to create a series of paintings for a permanent exhibition about climate change aboard an arctic explorer ship. Her work has been shown at PPOW Gallery, Google Headquarters, Scope Miami, Governors Island Art Fair, Children’s Museum of Art, Victori + Mo Gallery, and covered by Hyperallergic and the New York Times. Wagner is Co-Founder of the journal Painters on Paintings and teaches at Pratt Institute. www.studiovirginia.com @virginiawagner

Kristin Sztyk

Kristin Sztyk is a filmmaker and artist based in New York.  She received her MA in Media and Documentary Film from The New School in 2018. She premiered her documentary short, RAUL, at DOCNYC & Truth Be Told film festivals in 2017. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony and Mount Tremper Arts. She is currently producing the genre-bending, musical documentary film Our State Fair, and worked as an Art Director on the award-winning short film I’ve Been Compromised.

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