Breath of the Beast (2023)
Concept and Choreography: Stephen Petronio
Original Score and Performance: Jennifer Koh
Costume Design: Michelle Rhee
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Original Cast: Larissa Asebedo, Liviya England, Jaqlin Medlock, Tess Montoya, Ryan Pliss, Nicholas Sciscione
Guest Artist: Jerron Herman
Understudy: Deniz Sanack
Premiered: November 2, 2023, at NYU Skirball (New York, NY)
Duration: 33 minutes
Stephen Petronio Company is honored to dedicate this work to Sylvia Drulie Mazzola, a longtime friend, supporter and passionate patron of the arts.
“With over forty years of dancemaking under his belt, Stephen Petronio treads the boundary between renegade and establishment.”
– Sarah Cecilia Bukowski for Dance Enthusiast, November 20, 2023
Photo credits: Sarah Silver, Julie Lemberger
Commissioning support for “Breath of the Beast” was provided by Alison Mazzola, Harold Koda and Alan Kornberg, Jody and John Arnhold, American Dance Festival: Jodee Nimerichter, Jacqueline Davis, Sarah Arison, Jerry Greenfield, Laura T. Harris, and Paul King and Walter Jaffe of White Bird.
Stephen Petronio Company’s 2023 Season and Breath of the Beast were made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Greene County Cultural Fund, New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Arnhold Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Hover Foundation, Neil Barsky & Joan S. Davidson Foundation, Joseph and Joan Cullman Foundation for the Arts, The SHS Foundation, Serena Foundation, and The Shubert Foundation.