Across Connections December 10, 2011

ACROSS CONNECTIONS

AWARD-WINNING LOS ANGELES
PENNINGTON DANCE GROUP
AND THE CELEBRATED YORKE DANCE PROJECT,
DIRECT FROM LONDON, JOIN FORCES FOR AN
EXPLOSIVE EVENING OF MODERN DANCE

December 3 in Long Beach and December 10 & 11 ARC Pasadena

Inspired by their Mentor, Bella Lewitzky

The Pennington Dance Group (PDG) teams up with the
British Modern Dance Company, Yorke Dance Project (YDP), for a highly anticipated joint venture highlighting the unique and dynamic visions of these young, vivacious dance companies, on Saturday, December 3, 2011, 8:00 p.m. at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach (Supported in part by the CSULB Department of Dance); on Saturday, December 10, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at PDG’s new space, ARC Pasadena. The performances mark the first time that these two modern dance companies have performed together. The companies will each perform a work from their repertory, PDG will perform Yield of Vision and YDP will perform City Limitless, and the third work will be a premiere joint venture in dance entitled Overlay. This first major collaboration for both companies infuses their different paths of creativity as well as a great cultural exchange of ideas. John Pennington, the artistic director of both the PDG and ARC Pasadena, enjoyed a 14-year career with the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as a performer and teacher, serves on faculty at Pomona College and Cal State Long Beach, and is co-director of the Lewitzky Dance Gallery. Yolande Yorke-Edgell founded YDP in Los Angeles in 1998 shortly after dancing with Rambert Dance Company in London and Lewitzky Dance Company in Los Angeles.

Official Website: http://www.penningtondancegroup.org