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Cincinnati Choreographers Collective presents its premiere performance
Small Streams - 1
April 18 & 19, 8 pm
College Hill Town Hall
1805 Larch Ave, College Hill 45224
Heather Britt & others in Diane Germaine's "Monologue and Little Deaths," 2007. Photo by John Burgess
CINCINNATI CHOREOGRAPHERS' COLLECTIVE is a new organization of professional Tri-State choreographers who are committed to bringing provocative, innovative contemporary dance concerts and concepts to the Cincinnati public several times a year. The Collective is devoted to seeing its work danced by brilliant area performers and dance artists.
SMALL STREAMS - 1 is the first in a series of dance concerts featuring "small gems" (solos, duets, trios...maybe a quartet) by area contemporary choreographers. The intimate concerts will present a mix of new work, perhaps a prior work that merits being re-staged, or excerpts from larger group pieces. Like streams, that are fresh, swiftly moving channels of water naturally tumbling over rocks and through terrain, the work presented in Small Streams represents a piece of a larger whole, the choreographers' way of seeing or thinking at a specific moment in time.
PROGRAM
PAIGE CUNNINGHAM: "No Relation" A former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Company, Paige contributes her revised duet "No Relation" the first premiered in 2006.
DIANE GERMAINE: "NYC
Density," currently in 3 sections, is
about the claustrophobia and intensity of living in a crowded and
depersonalizing big city. Section one is seen from the
point of view of a young woman trying to exist inside the noise,
rushing, low ceilings, threat, and close air. Section two opens on a
young man looking out a window into the midst of a city he perceives as
full of people, buildings, relationships and activity as he is trapped
alone with his lost moments. The third section, originally the last
trio in “DUST,” is an homage for the missing buried in the fall of 9/11--a lovely ode to memory and layers unseen beneath the
known. KA-RON BROWN LEHMAN: "Recurring Dreams" by former LA artist explores the process of a dream and asks whether the brain integrates the new information as memory or as a real but timeless event of symbolic meaning?
JUDITH MIKITA: "Happy Town Suite," a dance and poetry collaboration by
Judith Mikita, dancer/choreographer, and F. Keith Wahle, poet, utilizes expressionistic and
dream-like images to create a tone which is alternately comic and disturbing
while describing the arc of a single life from early childhood to a time just
before death. The commonplace is
made witty and the tragic mirthful as Wahle's verbal images circle and dive,
while Mikita's dancing shifts implication and temper as it reflects and
amplifies the text. This work
celebrates its 11th anniversary; it was premiered in 1997 on the Performance and
Time Arts series.
STEPHANIE BLACKMON WOODBECK/MOVING COLLECTIVE (Louisville): “evolve dissolve reinvent
connect” is a duet exploring the volatility of the established
relationship. While new relationships are exciting to build and develop, it is
the established relationships in our lives that affect us the most. These are
the family and friends we turn to in times of need, sorrow and joy. These are
also the relationships that shake us most violently when they are uprooted from
the expected state. A change within these relationships requires us to reinvent
the notion of self within the new context.
DANCERS
(Cincinnati) Heather Britt, Michelle Bump, Paige Cunningham, Jason Hatcher; Judith Mikita, Danielle Shoreman; (Louisville) Tamara Begley & Theresa Bautista; (Chicago) Nicholas Wagner.
Reservations & Information: (513) 731-8847
After April 12th: (513) 591-1222
Tickets: $15 general; $13 seniors & students (with ID)
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