Choreographer Ellen Cornfield (NYC) will develop Portal, a work reveling in space, time, and geometric relationships while discovering and juxtaposing emotional doorways and openings. The project is organized through movement material that wends its way through human character into abstraction, from the quotidian to the sacred, through struggles and blessings.
Leadership support for BAC has been provided by Altman Foundation, Anonymous, James H. Duffy, The Enoch Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, Princess Grace Foundation-USA, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Thompson Family Foundation, and Dance/ NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The Ford Foundation provides leadership support for international residencies.
Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.
With support from The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Harkness Dance Festival Performance Fee, Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, and Private Donors to Cornfield Dance.

Ellen Cornfield
Ellen Cornfield began working as a choreographer in NYC in the 1980’s and established her company Cornfield Dance in 1989. She has brought her elegant, robust, and at times quirky choreography to new audiences worldwide through performances in theaters, universities, and public spaces.

BAC Story by Brian McCormick
Ellen Cornfield
Jun 6, 2019
Portal begins with an eruption — male, upward thrusting — a percussive, rolling rat-a-tat-tat of drums explodes out of the movement. Andreas Brade’s music, composed for the dance, responds to the action, from minimal and soothing to cacophonous, as needed.