Composer: Jane O’Leary
Pianist: Dorothy Chan
Choreographer: Angela Nicole Patmon and Patmon Dance Project Dancers
Dancers: Lauren Gifford, Mathilde Guerrero, Liz Rhom
In this collaborative work, we used repetitive dance phrases mixed in with contact improvisation. Using these techniques, we explore the dichotomy between the hustle of the city and the breathy, calm expanse of nature.
Program Note:
Homescape is a dreamy landscape of dancers that weaves in and out of the places we call home, and arrives in an America that must face either its dark reality or its own demise. The work builds on the ideas of family and comfort and how the avalanche that is death, loss, and grief rocks the foundation to the core. What is left of us after we are gone? A collection of old trinkets left behind? Or is it something more? Maybe the lives we spent still echo in the spaces we once called home. Maybe the words of our ancestors who fought for our American rights with dignity surge through us as we continue where they left off. Maybe when we begin to change our perspectives on our context of home, we can start to mend the lines that divide us.
Many of the shorter vignettes within Homescape touch on life, death, spirit, and morality. The questions I am left with are too many to include, but the ones that stand out follow. What is home? How do we find the strength to keep on going after a parent dies when we are far away from home and those we love? As a woman of color, of mixed race, how does a sense of home and belonging relate to a longing for an inclusive racial identity? How do we as a country close the gap between our hopeful expectations of the American Dream and the harsh reality? What will it take to make people actually see the damage this country has caused? Once we are "woke" how do we make change?
Dancers: Lauren Gifford, Colby Lewis, Sydney Ruf-Wong
Music: Mulberry Mouse: Alan Gogoll
Dancers: Nicollette Amico, Lauren Gifford, Colby Lewis, Liz Rhom, Lexi Verenes
Music: Music Box: Russell Shaw, That Home: The Cinematic Orchestra, In The Dressing Room: Scratch Massive, Sadness: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sonnet X: John Donne, To Build A Home: The Cinematic Orchestra Feat. Patrick Watson
Dancers: Nicollette Amico, Mathilde Guerrero, Jhon Kristoffer Persson, Liz Rhom
Music: Nightbook: Ludovico Einaudi
Dancers: Lauren Gifford, Liz Rhom, Sydney Ruf-Wong
Music: String Quartet No. 3 Mishima: Phillip Glass, Brooklyn Rider
Featured: Colby Lewis
Dancers: Nicollette Amico, Lauren Gifford, Mathilde Guerrero, Anysia Kelly, Jhon Kristoffer Persson, Liz Rhom, Sixtine Vanderschooten, Lexi Viernes
Music: My Country Tis of Thee: Mike Kroll, Land Where My Father Died by Fatimah Asghar: Spoken by Khaliah Adams and edited by Juan Etcheverry, My Country 'Tis of Thee: US Military Bands, Courtyard Apocolypse: Alexandre Desplat, Winter Solstace: Carl Borg
Dancer: Sydney Ruf-Wong
Music: Hengilás: Jónsi, Text: Angela Nicole Patmon
Featured: Mathilde Guerrero, Sixtine Vanderschooten,
Dancers: Nicollette Amico, Lidia Arena, Lauren Gifford, Colby Lewis, Anysia Kelly, Jhon Kristoffer Persson, Liz Rhom, Lexi Viernes
Music: Upbeat Blues Guitar: Jonathan Gear
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