8/29: Anna Sperber: Bow Echo

Photo by Maria Baranova

Saturday, August 29
60 minutes

This Bessie award-winning dance, originally created for a 15,000-square-foot rooftop in Brooklyn, will be transposed on and for the land at Kaatsbaan. By placing the performers and their sculptural instruments in concert within the sense-filling, ever-present elements of the natural environment, the movement accumulates in a visual and sonic collaboration with the grasses, the trees, the sky, and the expanse.

Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer Anna Sperber is a 2026–27 Princeton Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts. She received a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Outstanding Choreographer for Bow Echo. Her work has been presented and commissioned by venues including The Kitchen, The Joyce Theater, The Chocolate Factory, Roulette, Dance Theater Workshop, and the American Dance Festival. She has received fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Bogliasco Foundation, among others. Sperber founded and ran BRAZIL, a studio and intimate performance space in Bushwick, Brooklyn 2004–2014 and Sunset Space 2018–2020. www.annasperber.com