Abby Z and the New Utility

In this newest work by choreographer Abby Zbikowski, dancers of the New Utility dive head-on into the unknown, exploring complex movement that upends expectations. Radioactive Practice embodies the cultural collisions of contemporary living, testing the group’s own mental and physical limits with a hard-wiring for survival. Using movement traditions inspired by street and postmodern dance, contemporary African forms, tap, martial arts and sports, Abby Z shatters established assumptions through an arsenal of physical possibility.

Working with Senegalese dance artist Momar Ndiaye as dramaturge, Zbikowski and crew have created a genre-bending performance that challenges audiences to reconsider, if not completely abandon, their preconceptions of dance.

Produced in partnership with Bill T. Jones and New York Live Arts
Co-presented with On the Boards

Choreographer/Director: Abby Zbikowski
Performers/Collaborators: Alex Gossen, Kashia Kancey, Fiona Lundie, Jennifer Meckley, Benjamin Roach, jinsei sato
Rehearsal Directors: Fiona Lundie, Jennifer Meckley
Dramaturg: Momar Ndiaye
Technical Director/Lighting Designer: Jon Harper
Original Music: Matthew Peyton Dixon

Please note: no late seating will be allowed for this performance.