Performances by Battery Dance Company of U.S. May 10, 2008

Time: 2008/5/10
Venue: Tian Qiao Theater
Price: 50/100
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Tel: 86-10-64177845

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Battery Dance Companyis dedicated to the pursuit of artistic excellence and the availabilityof the Arts to everyone. An integral part of the fabric of New York City for 30 years, Battery supports the creative process; educates children in the New York Cityschools; enriches the general public through local programs andperformances, national and international tours, and international art***change programs.

Basedin Lower Manhattan, Battery Dance Company has produced nearly 100original dance works choreographed by its founder and artistic directorJonathan Hollander, in collaboration with a diverse array of composersand designers, and its cast of outstanding dancers.

Battery's repertoire reveals a wide thematic and stylistic range. Presented in New York City and on tour in the U.S. and worldwide, Batteryperformances are characterized by choreography and music inspired byworldwide sources, reflecting American society and its multiplicity ofcultures. Musical accompaniment, often commissioned and performed live,is a hallmark of the Company.

The Company is among New York City'sforemost cultural ambassadors through its participation ininternational performing arts festivals, conferences and symposiathroughout Eastern and Central Europe, Scandinavia, South Asia and the Caribbean.

BatteryDance Company is a community-spirited presenter of the free annualDowntown Dance Festival, introducing New Yorkers to over 150 dancecompanies in 23 years.

Through its arts-in-education programs in New York City public schools, Battery dancers serve as teaching artists in primary, middle and high schools throughout the five boroughs. Batteryfacilitates in-school performances and master classes by internationalvisiting artists, providing first-hand introductions for many cityschool children to the cultures of the world.

Program

1. Shell Games(2005)
Choreography by Jonathan Hollander
Music by Frank Carlberg
Fivestiff, gauzy gowns, designed by Sole Salvo, were as much costumes asdancing props that the five dancers stepped into and out of throughoutthe mysterious piece. Tall and thin, Paul Blackman stood out for hisfierce presence in a fine cast completed by Bafana Solomon Matea, AdeleLeRoi Nickel, Sean Scantlebury and Mayuna Shimizu.

2. Notebooks(2003)
Choreography by Jonathan Hollander for ensemble of 5 dancers;
Commissioned musical score by Frank Carlberg scored for voice, piano and percussion,
Lighting design by Barry Steele;
Texts from the notebooks of 20th Century French painter Georges Braque.
Carlberg'sscore and Hollander's choreography form a tapestry of rhythmic andgeometric interplay, with ascending arpeggios echoed between voice,piano, tolling bells and the rising and falling dancers. Stylisticreferences draw equally from the contrasting worlds of honky-tonk,French music hall and Arabic cabaret; as well as Braque's oeuvres, fromhis early cubist works through his late forays into the mysticismevoked by the swoopings of birds in flight.

3. I'll Take You There(2006)
Choreography by Jonathan Hollander
Musical score by Polar Levine
I'llTake You There, danced to music by Mr. Levine, took a mostly engaginglook at high school high jinks. Partly improvised by its six dancers,who also included Robin Cantrell, the piece wandered a little but wasusually reined in by snazzy projected imagery.

Price RMB50 for students only

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