NYU Skirball presents the North American premiere of choreographer Mette Ingvartsen’s “Moving in Concert” on March 16 and 17 at NYU Skirball.

“Moving in Concert,” featuring nine dancers, imagines a universe where humans, technologies and natural materials coexist to create an abstract set of movement. Inspired by how bodies are sensorially affected by living in a digitalized world, the performance explores a poetics of plasticity, abstraction and imagination.

Luminous reflections are used to produce a liquid experience of space and form, by elastically modulating light and shadow. Hallucinatory visual impressions emerge as the dancers transport sources of light and color through space. The audience is invited to partake in a mesmerizing landscape produced by abstract movement, sculptures of light, as well as intense sensations of color. Instead of drawing and regulating form, choreography in “Moving in Concert” is a process by which shapes and patterns emerge to modulate the experience of space, bodies and things.

Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. Questions of kinesthesia, perception, affect and sensation have been crucial to most of her work, which includes several site-specific projects that have been seen around the world. Her works include 21 pornographies, to come (extended), 69 positions, The Artificial Nature Project, The Extra Sensorial Garden, and many more. Skatepark, a large-scale performance for skaters, dancers and local skatepark communities, premiered in 2023. Mette is currently preparing Rush, a solo performance for Manon Santkin that draws on 20 years of collaboration. Ingvartsen established her company in 2003 and her work has since been shown throughout Europe, as well as in the U.S, Canada, Australia and Asia. She has been artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels (2012-2016), Volksbühne in Berlin, and associated to the APAP network. metteingvartsen.net

NYU Skirball’s presentation of “Moving in Concert” is made possible in part with support from the Harkness Foundation for Dance.

NYU Skirball is located in the heart of Greenwich Village, historically a center of resistance, dissent and free thinking. NYU Skirball’s programing reflects this history and embraces today’s renegade artists and companies, presenting works that aim to engage, provoke and inspire audiences. NYU Skirball is NYC’s home for cutting-edge performance, artistic research, and discourse, holding close to James Baldwin’s dictum that “artists are here to disturb the peace.” The 800-seat theatre provides a home for internationally renowned artists, innovators, and thinkers and presents ground-breaking events ranging from re-inventions of the classics to cutting-edge premieres, in genres ranging from dance, theatre and performance arts to comedy, music and film.

NYU Skirball’s programs are made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and by Howard Gilman Foundation; FUSED (French U.S. Exchange in Dance), a program of FACE Foundation in partnership with Villa Albertine; Collins Building Services; Korean Cultural Center New York; Van Cleef & Arpels; Marta Heflin Foundation; and Harkness Foundation for Dance, as well as our valued donors through memberships, commissioning, and Stage