mvworks:news

Prisoners of Structure
Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice, March 15, 2007

"...eruptions of movement burn themselves into your brain—the residue of lives you can't quite grasp but which you suspect might be your own."
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Sprenger's Triangle
Jack Anderson, New York Theatre Wire, February 24, 2007

"Seldom in my recent dance-going have I experienced such an intense sense of kinesthetic transfer..."
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A Triangle Most Irregular
Claudia LaRocco, The New York Times, February 24, 2007

"What does make the work stand out, so to speak, is its stubborn insistence on starting no where, and staying there."
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Math as Dance
Marilyn Russo, Attitude, The Dancers' Magazine, Vol. 21, No. 1 Spring 2007

"There is something antagonistic about her that's irritating. The other two are struggling and they draw us, ever so slowly, towards their dilemma. The sound of car starting seems perfectly natural. Ruszkowski walks off, finally ablle to solve this pictorial equation. Maybe that irritating quality kept her sane."
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The Week Ahead: Feb. 18 - 24

Claudia LaRocco, The New York Times, February 18, 2007

The link between music and dance is well known, as is that between music and mathematics. There must be a connection between math and dance, right?


Emotional Mathematics
Brian McCormick, Gay City News, February 16, 2007

How would a woman from one of Gregory Crewdson's photographs move? In "No Where," Megan V. Sprenger gives life to the expressive, psychological ideas and characters in Crewdson's meticulously staged cinematic images, who appear frozen, as if seized by unseen forces.
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Goings on About Town

New Yorker, Feb 12 - 19, 2007

MEGAN V. SPRENGER / MVWORKS
P.S. 122’s new commissioning program, Room, was created to encourage collaboration with experts
in disciplines outside the performing arts. “No Where,” Sprenger’s first evening-length work...
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New Lords of the (Downtown) Dance
Gia Kourlas, The New York Times, Sunday, January 28, 2007

Partly in response, Mr. Gantner instituted Room, a commissioning program to encourage artists to
collaborate with experts outside their disciplines. Next month Megan V. Sprenger works with Sara
Grundel, a mathematician, in “No Where.”
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No Where on Culturebot
Sarah Maxfield, 5 Questions for Megan V. Sprenger

"Watching trained dancers leave their technique behind and try to move from a human place is fascinating"
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