Benjamin Dauer

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I recently worked w/New York-based dance company, Palissimo, using some of my Offsets material from earlier this year. Offsets is a long-distance musical collaboration between myself & Scotland-based Dominic Dixon.

Special thanks go to: Pavel, for the opportunity to collaborate; Michelle, for your inspiration and voice; the students of ELS in Washington, DC, for lending their voices; Dominic, for creating the original music together and for allowing me the creative freedom to expand upon our work.

Learn more:
http://www.palissimo.com
http://www.benjamindauer.net
http://www.offsetsmusic.com

Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy the work.

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Details about the performance:

HALT!
We miss a ride or a subway and halt in our tracks. When you stop chasing, what finds you instead?

October 26-30, 2009 (Mon-Fri)
Daily between 1-5pm (between ferry arrival and departure times)

Free to the Public
Whitehall Ferry Terminal, NYC

Subway: 1 South Ferry, 4/5 Bowling Green, N/R Whitehall Street

Choreographer Pavel Zustiak teams up with scenographer Nicholas Vaughan and three stellar performers to create Palissimo's first site-specific performance installation for the Whitehall Ferry Terminal.

Reconnect with space and time-and each other-in the face of today's virtual reality of social meeting places. Encounter a private public performance where you least expect it, and be part of the cast of the greater moving public. Tap into Palissimo's "Sound Bar" to frame the playful and provocative acts of the performers, and encapsulate yourself with your own private soundtrack amidst a sea of hurrying strangers.

Beauty and flights of the imagination arrive at the least expected places and moments - but only if you Halt! to notice them.