Jane Comfort and Company – March 19 -22

ABOUT

 

A new dance work featuring music by MacArthur award winning composer Heather Christian that explores America’s current immigration landscape through intricate vocal polyrhythms and vivid community-inspired movement.  The program also includes Comfort’s 1983 Afro-Brazilian infused Artificial Horizon with live drumming, and her 1996 work Bites, a musical chairs-driven examination of scarcity set to Klimchak’s percussive score and a voice-over of Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America.

 

Jane Comfort has been making multi-disciplinary work for her company since 1978 and has won major accolades, including two Bessie Awards, a Guggenheim, and American Dance Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award

 

Also on the program will be an excerpt of Comfort’s 1983 Afro-Brazilian polyrhythmic work Artificial Horizon with live drumming, and her 1996 work Bites, which utilizes a structure of musical chairs to examine a community beset by diminishing resources.  Bites is performed to a percussion soundscape by Klimchak and a voice-over of Newt Gingrich describing his Contract With America.  

 

These three pieces will offer audiences an evening of deeply layered dance theater works from three distinct time periods in contemporary American history and a sharp focus on complex rhythm, text and structure.

 

 

CREDITS

Artistic Director: Jane Comfort

Music Composition:

Heather Christian

Klimchak

Auchee Lee

Costumes: Liz Prince

Lighting: Mandy Ringger

Cast: 

Paul Hamilton

Cori Marquis

Petra van Noort

Gabrielle Revlock

Brandon Washington

Katie Workum

Darrin Wright