CounterPointe11:

new works by women choreographers & their collaborations with artists

Produced by Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects in the Arts, Inc.

Fri, Mar 1 at 7:30pm
Sat, Mar 2 at 4pm and 7:30pm
Sun, Mar 3 at 4pm

General Admission: $30 | Students+Seniors: $20
*All tickets must be purchased in advance.

The Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Entertainment Community Fund
160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn

Directions by Subway: A, C, G Train to Hoyt-Schermerhorn. 2, 3 Train to Hoyt Street

Featuring new collaborative works by:
Chloe Sonnet Brown - Cadence Giersbach
Tina Bararian - Estefania Velez-Rodriguez
Minnie Lane - Jaanika Peerna
Nicole Speletic - Esperanza Mayobre
Danielle Diniz - Carol Salmanson
Sarah Marazzi-Sassoon - Nancy Bowen
Julia K. Gleich - Ellie Murphy

and work by guest choreographer Cherylyn Lavagnino, March 1st and 3rd only

CounterPointe image designed by Jason Andrew featuring artwork by Ellie Murphy. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Norte Maar presents the 11th season of CounterPointe: collaboration between seven women dance makers and visual artists. The performances will take place at downtown Brooklyn’s The Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Actors Fund Arts Center on March 1-3, 2023. Tickets available through TicketTailor.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About CounterPointe Brooklyn, NY — CounterPointe is an annual performance series dedicated to presenting the latest experimental, innovative, risk-taking choreography that shows a depth of investment in ballet by women dance makers working with the pointe shoe. Investigating new and old territory the series highlights new work, opening up discussion, and creating a forum for women, young or old, emerging or established, to take risks. The series made its inaugural presentation in Brooklyn at the Actors Fund Arts Center in 2012. In June 2013, the series made its London debut at the Broadway in Barking. Since 2016 Norte Maar has paired choreographers with visual artists, presenting their new collaborations at CounterPointe.

It has been my proudest achievement to give life to new works and to stimulate new collaborative approaches for 10 years through this program. We continue faithfully to give space to experiments that use pointe alongside visual art in an environment that is supportive, curious, enthusiastic! – Julia K. Gleich, Producer/Choreographer

Dance and art luminaries who have moderated a panel discussion following Saturday's CounterPointe have included Guerrilla Girl Frida Kahlo, Karole Armitage, Ashley Bouder, Sharon Butler, Antonia Franceschi, Claudia Jeschke, Kat Wildish, Gabrielle Lamb/Pigeon Wing Dance, Lynn Parkerson/Brooklyn Ballet, and Kathryn Posin.

I remember one of my first ideas in these early punk pointe pieces was to think of pointe shoes as weapons. – Karole Armitage, 2013 CounterPointe Panelist, Internationally recognized Contemporary Ballet Choreographer, the Punk Ballerina