Aszure Barton
“Barton is clearly brilliant”. San Francisco Chronicle
“I thought that the audience was going to explode from their seats. Aszure Barton where have you been? The art of choreography needs you.” Village Voice
“Aszure Barton’s work is something else entirely: a rare instance of dance that feels as if it were plucked straight from the choreographer’s extremely specific imagination and set, full-grown, onstage.” The New York Times
“Barton creates moments of genuine emotional resonance. To say that she is worth watching would be something of an understatement.” VoiceofDance.com
Aszure Barton is a New York-based, Canadian born choreographer and the director of her own dance troupe Aszure & Artists, founded in 2002. At present, Aszure Barton is Artist-in-Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, where she has created commissioned work for Mr. Baryshnikov’s new performing company Hell’s Kitchen Dance. Aszure also performs and tours with Mr. Baryshnikov’s troupe, in works such as the acclaimed Come In, which she choreographed.
Described as the most innovative choreographer of her generation, Aszure Barton recently created choreography for the Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera. She has also made works for Benjamin Milliepied and Company, the Juilliard School, Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal (where she is also resident), Hubbard Street Dance and Transitions Dance Company in the UK. Acclaimed in Europe as well as North America, her choreography has been described as intensely musical, emotionally moving and structurally astonishing.
