Past Performances - 2008

Big Range Dance Festival
June 13 & 14 at 8:00 pm
June 15 at 6:00 pm
The Off Center [2211-A Hidalgo Street, Austin, TX]
Tickets: $15
For more information, visit Spank Dance Co.'s website

David Justin's new work, set to György Sándor Ligeti's Solo Cello Sonata, is an exploration of internal dialogues. A collaboration of artistic voices, a solo dancer (Rosalyn Nasky, pictured above) and the media are driven in real time by the nuance of the Solo Cello Sonata. Sound is picked up through an instrument mic and directed to a software program that produces real time imagery of the performance based on prescribed parameters of tone and tone clusters, timbre, volume, octave, tempo and rhythm complexity. Concepts of transitory youth and rooted wisdom battle for prominence in our daily expressions of life. The artists respond by deciphering the conversations with a willingness to look at hard truths with clarity. In this moment we find the strength of our inner voice.

40th International Choreographers' Showcase
May 28 & 29, 2008
Montenegrin National Theatre
Podgorica, Montenegro
For more information, visit the Dance Forms Productions website

Winter's Tryst
January 2008 Performance Series

Winter's Tryst Performance
Friday, January 18 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, January 19 at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
McCullough Theatre, UT Performing Arts Center [map]
Tickets: $22 general/$15 UT staff & faculty/$12 students & seniors
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Featuring an internationally-renowned roster of dancers and musicians, the theme of Winter's Tryst is people coming together and, on occasion, moving apart. On the program is a new piece by choreographer David Justin set to a Liszt piano solo about seeing each other through the disguises we wear; the smoky sounds of Kurt Weill in a pas de deux (duet) by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon; another pas de deux for two men choreographed by James Kudelka about love, lust, patience and dignity; Bach, Ligeti, Arvo Part, Hywel Davies, John Cage, as well as a few surprises. Not only is ARE one of only four companies in the world allowed to perform Kudelka's Soudain l'hiver dernier, but Kudelka also specifically requested that David perform in his piece! Deborah Jowitt of the Village Voice calls Kudelka's piece "extremely moving" with "famously heart-penetrating music." As always with an ARE concert, you can expect to move through the full range of the emotional roller coaster.

• Press release

Many thanks to our Winter's Tryst supporters:

This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.