MUSICDANCE EN-SEM’-BLE (CHICAGO, IL) IS A PERFORMANCE GROUP OF EMERGING AND ESTABLISHED DANCE AND MUSIC ARTISTS SINCE 2015. 2021 HIGHLIGHTS WERE A COLLABORATION WITH GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING THIRD COAST PERCUSSION IN A SITE-SPECIFIC PIECE ‘POUR’ AND PERFORMING ‘JANUARY THIRTYFIRST’ ON STAGE IN HCCDF 2021 AT RUTH PAGE. IN 2022: 'SOLO CELLO & CHOREOGRAPHY’ WITH ESTEEMED CELLIST STEPHEN BALDERSTON AT GANNON CONCERT HALL, FILMING A NEW WORK 'NIGHT TABLE' with cellist francisco malespin, cantor howard friedland and original music by composer ilya levinson, OUR 6TH teaching/performance project IN CHICAGO WITH choreographer and dynamic performer MIRIAM ENGEL FROM JERUSALEM.
AWARD-WINNING ARTIST-EDUCATOR AND INNOVATIVE PRODUCTIVE CHOREOGRAPHER, LIN BATSHEVA KAHN’S WORK HAS BEEN PERFORMED BY DANCERS FROM HUBBARD STREET PRO, PROJECT 606, CLEVELAND CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE, VERB BALLET, EXTENSIONS BALLET, DAYTON CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY, URBAN BUSH WOMEN, OHIO BALLET, KEIGWIN & COMPANY, GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO, AND ISRAEL’S A'NGELA DANCE COMPANY.
ALSO INTEGRATING FINE ART AND TEXT FOR A RICH MULTI-ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE, HER CHOREOGRAPHY HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "SKILLFULLY CRAFTED" (DANCE CRITIC WILMA SALISBURY, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER) AND “SUBSTANTIAL AND STRIKING" (MEGHANN MULLER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PROJECT 606.) “HER ATTENTION TO DETAIL IS EXACTING” (JEREMY JACOB ALUMA, DIRECTOR.)
TEACHING CONTEMPORARY DANCE AND ORIGINAL ACADEMIC COURSES SUCH AS ‘DIVERSITY IN DANCE: PARADIGMS SHIFTING’ IN THE THEATRE SCHOOL AT DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, LIN BATSHEVA’s CHOREOGRAPHY ADDRESSes THEMES OF HUMAN SIGNIFICANCE; WHAT WE STRUGGLE WITH, QUESTION, AND DELIGHT IN. VISIT US AT MUSICDANCEENSEMBLE.COM