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“A landmark documentary...delineates how virtuosity becomes identity”
- Debra Cash, NPR/WBUR

Iriena Herrera

NYC SESSIONS & PARTIES

 as per Bravo LaFortune

SESSIONS
All sessions five dollars ($5), unless otherwise noted

MONDAY:
ObsessionNYC
Dance New Amsterdam (280 Chambers Street, at Broadway)
Manhattan, NYC
8:30-10:30pm

Basics: Dance

04/17/95

“Dancing,” says Brahms La Fortune, architect and clubhead, “is like breathing. First you breathe, then you dance.” Movement is fundamental for all of us. Without it, we die. If movement is the body’s survival tool, it is also the soul’s salvation.

“A Basic of Life” by Sally Sommer

Dance/USA Journal
Spring 1995

“Dancing,” says Brahms La Fortune, architect and clubhead, “is like breathing.  First you breathe, then you dance.”

Movement is fundamental for all of us.  Without it, we die.  If movement is the body’s survival tool, it is also the soul’s salvation.  Altered states are caused by the physical repetitions that produce the enkephalins and endorphins that abolish pain and promote ecstatic highs.

Review (NPR/WBUR)

05/09/11

Other observers have been able to convey hip hop and house dance's enviable virtuosity. But it has took Sally's Sommer's patient commitment to delineate the way virtuosity becomes identity.

NPR/WBUR

Published: May 9, 2001

"Check Your Body at the Door - Rough Cut (54 minutes) Film"
Review by Debra Cash

May 5-6 1995

CYB Project & Film
Dancers
May 5-6 1995
05/01/95

National Students Association of Vienna presents "New York meets Vienna" Club Dance and Street Styles Performance and Party in Vienna, Austria.  Sally Sommer and dancers attend with DJ Lil' Louie Vega.

Iriena Herrera was inspired to dance as a young child by her mother and aunt, both of whom were great Salsa dancers.  A native of NYC’s Lower East Side she grew up in the hotbed of dance activity in the Alfred Smith Housing Projects. Herrera started clubbing when she was about 13-years old.