In occasions of transformation, dance brings unparalleled readability. The colourful vitality of motion uplifts each physique and spirit. With this in thoughts, EMERGE125, a Harlem-based, Black female-led dance firm, proclaims its 2025 season. This system celebrates the corporate, its supporters, and the broader group, embodying hope and motion. Via dance, EMERGE125 affirms the facility of selection and invitations all to affix within the celebration.
Following three profitable years because the resident firm of The Flea Theater, E125 is worked up to announce their switch to El Museo del Barrio. Situated at fifth Avenue and 104th Road, El Museo gives E125 with a bigger stage, extra seats for the viewers, and a recommitment to E125’s uptown roots. EMERGE125’s 2025 efficiency season is scheduled for Could 29 and 30 at 7:30pm with a household matinee on Saturday, Could 31 at 4:00pm.
The 2025 season will embrace a choice of basic EMERGE125 repertoire, each uplifted by the facility of music. Set to a soundtrack composed by E125 board member Paul Ukena, 1:3:4:1 was initially created for an all-male-identifying forged, however the piece takes on new life this season with all-female and mixed-gender casts because it explores the physicality of a visible artist within the act of creation.
For Pleasure, that includes music by Fred Kennedy, maps the topography of resilience and happiness as an important and under-appreciated basis for development. A longtime favourite within the firm’s repertory and a standard nearer, Coronary heart of Glass is a visually epic and emotionally charged finale. Along with the manufacturing of those three dances, the Could efficiency season will embrace the primary main encore restaging of the 2024 premiere work I Need You, a dance centered on the immense challenges of unrequited love, each bodily and non secular.
As a part of this program, EMERGE125 can also be excited to current the 2025 premiere of two new dances choreographed by Inventive Director, Tiffany Rea-Fisher. The primary, Pre-Present Jitters, dramatizes the ultimate breaths earlier than a performer reaches the stage. Extra typically than we’d admit, that journey is a battleground of adrenaline, doubt, and sheer will. As Rea-Fisher tells us, “When audiences ask how we do what we do as dancers, the reply is that it isn’t straightforward. It requires an individual with relentless consideration to element, an unshakable love for the artwork type, and massive braveness.” Alongside the corporate, this braveness will likely be personified on stage by particular visitor performer and vocalist, Jo Lampert (Joan of Arc: Into the Fireplace at The Public Theater, Clear: The Musicale Finale on Amazon), who additionally penned the work’s spoken textual content.
The second premiere, an untitled piece, is a full-company work that acts as a metaphor for unity, pressure, and launch. Eight dancers transfer in strict unison, pushing the boundaries of physicality, connection, and assist via intricate partnering. At its core, the piece is constructed round duets, with two dancers shifting to interrupt away from the group earlier than being inevitably drawn again right into a world of shifting dynamics, the place individuality and group continuously negotiate their significance.
The Could 31 household matinee will start with an thrilling opening set of performances that showcases E125’s schooling programming and the energetic artwork’s subsequent era. Younger dancers from the Stars of Tomorrow Undertaking and The Repertory Firm Excessive Faculty for Theatre Arts who’ve benefited from EMERGE125 classroom applications will present and show their expertise. EMERGE125 will likely be providing backed tickets for this matinee efficiency to native colleges, educators, college students and their households.
The EMERGE125 performing firm members for the 2025 season embrace Jenna Kulacz, Madelyn LaLonde, Alyssa Manginaro, Briana Marsiello, Caitlyn Morgan, Trey Singletary, Tiffany Terry, Travon Williams, and extra company TBA.
Tickets for EMERGE125’s 2025 performances at El Museo del Barrio are on sale now. Tickets are priced on a tiered system, beginning at $10 to $45 for basic seating and $125 for VIP tickets that can embrace an invitation to the opening night time reception. Seniors, college students, energetic army and veterans could buy tickets at a 40% low cost with $10 tickets out there for any public-school college students.
