Executive/Artistic Director
Production Stage Manager/Technical Director
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Honoring some of modern dance's revolutionary pioneers.
Featuring:
SUITE FROM MAZURKAS - José Límon
Limón choreographed this classical work in 1958 after touring Europe. Limón’s stirring choreography depicts indomitable humanity rising up after near-destruction following World War II.
INVENTION (1949) - Doris Humphrey
A classic work by one of the founders of Modern Dance featuring vibrant energy and an affirmation of the human spirit.
RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER (1959) - Donald McKayle
Donald McKayle’s masterwork,
Rainbow Round My Shoulder, is acclaimed as a modern dance classic. A searing dramatic narrative, it is set on a chain gang in the American south where prisoners work, breaking rock from “can see to can’t see.” Their aspirations for freedom come in the guise of a woman, first as a vision then as a remembered sweetheart, mother, and wife. The songs that accompany their arduous labor are rich in polyphony and tell a bitter, sardonic, and tragic story.
CASTOR & POLLUX (1958) by Elizabeth Waters
Castor and Pollux are the twin stars of good luck. The immortal soul appears as substance and the mortal soul as reality. Then the two travel together as of one experience. Elizabeth Waters merges the theories and movements of the Hanya Holm dance technique with movement qualities inspired by Pueblo Indian rituals. The dancers shape and define the space in which they move while conveying the attitudes of Pueblo ceremonial dancers.
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