Rebecca Stenn and Ben Munisteri: Chopped and Screwed June 12, 2009

New York City based choreographers Ben Munisteri and Rebecca Stenn have collaborated, with their companies, to create an evening entitled 'Chopped and Screwed.' What they will present is not a typical shared evening where each company contributes its own works. Instead, Munisteri and Stenn remix the other's choreography to create an alchemy of utterly surprising and unpredictable work. The rules they set out for their program are: each choreographer starts by creating a ten minute dance. Subsequently, the other choreographer (who is not allowed to make up any new vocabulary) remixes the original material to make something entirely new (the way a DJ would, in a mash-up). The choreographer can of course change the costumes, decor, music and lights. What comes out of the process are six different world premieres, all subtley connected.