Koresh Dance Company to present two world premieres during its 2010 Fall Season in Philadelphia

Koresh Dance Company takes the stage at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre for its 2010 fall season featuring two world premieres by Ronen (Roni) Koresh, Somewhere in Between and Benchtime Stories. Performances will be held from Thursday, October 28 to Sunday, October 31.

If you could go back in time, what would you change? Would you change anything or would you do it the same all over again? In Somewhere in Between, Roni challenges both the viewers and himself with these questions. It is a reflection on the past, a pause to recognize and remember forgotten dreams, while still looking towards the future. It is only in acknowledging your strengths and weaknesses that you can move on with renewed and clearer vision. This piece is inspired by the words of Karl Mullen as Roni breathes new life into his work and discovers how the past has shaped his present.

In Benchtime Stories, Roni uses a simple wooden park bench as his voice. This lonely bench will witness the unraveling relationships between people from all walks of life, some dramatic, some humorous and some abstract. The creation of Benchtime Stories was supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 1991, Ronen (Roni) Koresh fulfilled a lifelong dream with the help of his brother Alon Koresh and founded the Koresh Dance Company. Known for its engaging performances and technically superb dancers, the company is a leading force nationally and internationally.  Roni has developed a repertory of work that ranges from explosive and passionate, to intimate and restrained. The company’s repertory also includes work by Robert Battle, Donald Byrd, Itzik Galili, Paul Selwyn Norton and Ohad Naharin.  The company’s home in Philadelphia is the Koresh School of Dance which has become a mecca for dancers throughout the Philadelphia community. Along with touring and rehearsing his company, Roni remains dedicated to teaching not only at his studio, but also at The University of the Arts, where he has been a professor of dance since 1986. Roni’s work has been commissioned by Derryl Yeager’s Odyssey Dance Theater in Utah, the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, Brandywine Ballet in West Chester, Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle, and Dance Celebration, a co-presentation of Dance Affiliates and Penn Presents, at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. For his choreography, Roni has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts.

Koresh Dance Company
Somewhere in Between and Benchtime Stories
Oct 28 at 8pm, Oct 29 at 8pm, Oct 30 at 2pm & 8pm, Oct 31 at 7pm
Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 South Broad St • Box Office 215.985.0420

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While not a dancer himself, Weisz’s love for the arts and dance started as a child growing up in New York City. With parents, who were strong supporters of the arts and part of a community with an incredible array of notable artists in music, dance, theater, and fine arts, Weisz’s access and affinity for the performing arts took root. Upon attending college in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania in the mid-’70s, Weisz started performing as a puppeteer, magician, juggler, and fire eater as a means of supplementing his income. This soon grew into what became Rainbow Promotions Inc., one of the largest entertainment and special events producers in the region. It was here that he began to promote and book dance for major events throughout the city. Many of the dancers he worked within the early days of his company are now major choreographers in Philadelphia. At the same time, Weisz’s interest in computers and the early developments of what is now known as the Internet led him to also start another company, Delaware Valley On Line, which became one of the first regional ISPs. It was this combination of event production, internet development, and event marketing that led him to examine the use of the internet as a means to promote the arts. Dance continued to be a major interest for Weisz and in 2005 he founded PhiladelphiaDANCE.org as a major online resource to promote dance in the city. It was soon after that the Dance Journal was also founded as a way to provide an outlet for writing on a range of topics that encompass the ever-growing and emerging dance community in the region. Weisz continues to run both the non-profit PhiladelphiaDANCE and The Dance Journal on purely a voluntary basis with no income derived from any of his projects. He is also the Director of Graffito Works, an international platform for dancers and performing artists in Europe that creates site specific. More recently, Weisz has expanded his creative endeavors into the realm of photography through the establishment of ArtImagined.photo.

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