Elsewhere: Reimagined (2019)

"Elsewhere: reimagined" was mounted in 2019 as part of Shannon Hummel/Cora Dance’s Professional Apprentice Program, an extension of CYC/Cora Youth Company Program annually offering a select group of advanced students age 12-17 the chance to apprentice with the professional company and perform - both locally and on tour - an evening-length work previously a part of SH/CD’s 1998-present canon.

Elsewhere premiered in 2005 at Joyce SoHo in Manhattan, NYC. The 2019 reimagined version is performed by Student Apprentices: Anais Dallett, Z’Yanah Gonzalez, Evangelina Vargas and Mateo Vidals with professional company member Rebekah Bono. Originally questioning whether it is better to remember or forget when faced with sudden loss, the 2019 reimagining was reframed as a catalyst to open discussion about the crisis of immigrant family separation and America's Southern border. Where the original was staged in a vast empty warehouse space, the 2019 iteration encased dancers in a circle with no exit created by the audience.

Elsewhere: reimagined
Choreography by Shannon Hummel in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Rebekah Bono, Anais Dallett, Z’Yanah Gonzalez, Evangelina Vargas and Mateo Vidals
Original Score by Hans Bilger
Recorded live by Steve Pisano in front of an audience, October 2019 @ Cora Dance, Brooklyn, NYC.