City/Dans Deganit Shemy & Company round 2 and Blink World Premiere February 11-13, 2010 • [Thu-Sat] • 8:00 PM Admission: $18 ($12 for members) " Shemy's unflinching approach and her imaginative way of presenting cruelty are admirable." - The Village Voice In round 2, five women explore the silence born out of intense, physical brutality and the paths to communication emerging from emptiness. Choreographer Deganit Shemy juxtaposes a dense and driving sound-scape, designed by Tei Blow, with stillness. Performance by Robin Brown, Erika Eichelberger, Leah Nelson, Denisa Musilova and Savina Theodorou. Blink is the measure of time between the intention of one person and the reaction of another. Misinterpretations that occur in a nano-second force a new way of communicating and a new way of understanding. Live and recorded music and fast physical gestures expose the fragility of time, of relationship and of accepting. Lighting design by Carol Mullins. Blink and round 2 are made possible, in part, with funds from the 2009-2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation. round 2 makes the second in a series that began with Arena, which was commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop`s Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts - a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. round 2 was made possible, in part, through Sugar Salon - a program developed and administered by the Williamsburg Art nexus (WAX) in partnership with the Department of Dance of Barnard College and was developed in residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. The Baryshnikov Arts Center, in partnership with the Inaugural Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, Florida presented an earlier version of round 2. The company has recently received a Residency at Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University in Tallahassee.