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CCDC to perform at the Kennedy Center
March 10, 2008, 6:00 pm
Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, Washington, D.C.
On March 10, 2008 at 6:00 PM, CrossCurrents Dance Company presents a diverse collection of pieces that include a new improvisational work by Daniel Burkholder and pieces by guest choreographers Tiffany Haughn and Darcy Mandell. The concert also features the energetic and intriguing works by CrossCurrent’s co-directors, Helen Hayes and Debra Kanter.
“Grace’s Flight,” translates Hayes’ finely honed musicality and spacious, sweeping and energetic movement vocabulary into a study of the intricacies of Bach’s Concerto in C Minor. The first and third sections reflect joyful dialogue through changing spatial relationships, contrasted by Hayes’ grounded solo expressing the human struggle.
“Into Our Eyes,” Debra Kanter’s new work inspired by her travels in Alaska, examines Kanter’s passion for the natural world and her personal quest to create a new definition of home. Utilizing improvisation and set choreography, the dancers manipulate real objects Kanter collected during her forays into the outdoors. Through this process she has sought to explore where in the heart home resides, and how each of our perceptions of this special space intersects as we come together.
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“… To Every Story”, is by guest choreographer Tiffany Haughn. It explores the depth of our beliefs and values, and how these convictions can hamper new possibilities. With much of the dance focusing on this clash, the middle adagio section delves into our sameness and role in the human journey.
“In The In Between” is an intimate, intense trio that explores the need for intimacy and our ability — or lack thereof — to find it. A premiere directed by Daniel Burkholder, the piece combines the immediacy of improvisation with the formalism of choreography to create a work that is thoughtful, provocative and surprising.
“At Last Light,” choreographed by Darcy Mandell, is dedicated to Silvio Olivieri, who died of cystic fibrosis at the age of 20. It offers glimpses into a woman’s life as she journeys through terminal illness. We follow her as she experiences isolation and fear, then alienation from her own body at the hands of doctors and finally, weary acceptance.
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