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Jersey City composer and dancer make their mark / Hudson Reporter

Posted: May 24, 2015

Ariel Grossman grew up in New York City. David Homan grew up in Gainesville, Fla. She is a dancer; he is a composer. As a compromise between urban and suburban, the artistic couple ended up in Jersey City, where they are raising a family while pursing their careers. Scheduled to take part in a series of performances from Thursday to Saturday, May 28-30 New York Live Arts Theater, they are among several diverse artists to find common ground in a performance series of cutting-edge contemporary dance that includes Carolyn Dorfman Dance, Sean Curran, Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, and Paul Dennis. Their company, called Ariel Rivka Dance (ARD), will premier "Ori," which is their collaboration. Meaning "my light" in Hebrew, Ori manipulates fast- paced lighting shifts and their consequent shadows to create a raw, energetic performance by seven contemporary ballet dancers and four electrifying cellists.

The husband and wife team founded Ariel Rivka Dance in 2008 as a contemporary ballet company based in New York City. Committed to creating work that explores raw emotion in the context of strong technique and form, ARD's most recent work, "The Book of Esther," tours nationwide including performances at the Gershman Y in Philadelphia, Pa., and the Center for Jewish History in New York City.

"In a lot of my music, my intention is to get to the core emotional as quickly as possible." – David Homan

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