2012/2013 Performance Series Season
Ballet ADI
September 29 at 7:30p & September 30 at 2:00p
Ballet ADI is the resident company of American Dance Institute under the Artistic Direction of Runqiao Du.
“… a small flexible entity that provides the Washington area with new works and exciting performances. Professional standards were set…”—George Jackson of Dance View Times
*The presentation of Ballet ADI has been made possible by a grant from the William S. Abell Foundation.
Dan Hurlin
ADI National Incubator
Double Aspect Bright and Fair (by Erik Ehn, dir. Dan Hurlin)
October 20 at 7:30p & October 21 at 2:00p
“I don’t really see what I do as theatre. To me, puppetry is more like dance. Both rely on movement instead of text.”- Dan Hurlin
DOUBLE ASPECT BRIGHT AND FAIR is part of Erik Ehn’s Soulographie Project— a durational performance event looking at 20th century America from the point of view of its relationship to genocides in the states, in East Africa, and Central America. It aims to create channels of dialogue through art and conversation.
Hurlin’s work was chosen as the BEST DANCE performance of 2009 by Sarah Kaufman of The Washington Post.
After ADI’s incubator Double Aspects Bright and Fair will premiere at La Mama later in the fall of 2012.
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Brian Brooks Moving Company
Big City | Descent | I’m Going to Explode
November 17 at 7:30p & November 18 at 2:00p
“visually arresting.”-The New York Times
BIG CITY. Affected by the physical and emotional destruction that takes over nations, communities and individuals, BIG CITY looks at the inevitable rebuilding that follows – of people putting things back together.
I’M GOING TO EXPLODE. Explores the body’s use of force within articulated spaces, both in relation to one’s surroundings and within the relative space defined by one’s own body.
DESCENT. An exploration of the relationships between bodies and their paradoxical tendency to exhibit both dependency and detachment.*The presentation of Brian Brooks Moving Company has been made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Jodi Melnick | David Neumann
February 2 at 7:30p & February 3 at 2:00p
Two of today’s smartest dancemakers are brought together for an exciting mixed bill engagement.
“Trying to convey Melnickís brilliance is like trying to grasp a silver trout in a running stream. She is indeed a force of nature.”-The Village Voice.
FANFARE: Jodi Melnick | Burt Barr
TOUGH THE TOUGH: David Neuman
JULY: Jodi Melnick | David Neumann
“By now the line on Mr. Neumann is well established: He is the smart joker of dance. Whatís not said as often is how deeply felt and deeply moving his work can be.” -The New York Times
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Joe Goode Performance Group
The Rambler
March 2 at 7:30p & March 3 at 2:00p
“Goode’s artistry is amazing.” – San Francisco Bay Times
The RAMBLER examines the lone cowboy-wanderer who appears throughout American history – but whose roots run deep in cultures throughout the world. A master storyteller, Goode gets to the core of our humanity with classic wit and peerless choreography.
The performance begins as the audience enters through a lobby installation created by Basil Twist.
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Big Dance Theater
Ich, Kürbisgeist
April 6 at 2:00p & 7:30p | April 7 at 1:00p & 5:00p
“Deeply brilliant …people need to see this amazing company.” - The New York Times
ICH, KÜRBISGEIST. A theatrical piece of writing, but it is not a play in the usual sense. They sing; they dance; they reminisce; they harvest pumpkin seeds. Populated by five crude people speaking a rigorous, specific, invented language—Ich, Kürbisgeist, strangely comic, full of rawness, fragmentation, confusion, and superstition, is in the end a contemplation of language itself.
“…even it you claim dance illiteracy, BIG DANCE THEATERís fiercely visual work can move you to tears.”– Time Out New York
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Joshua Beamish
ADI National Incubator
Pierced (working title)
May 18 at 7:30p & May 19 at 2:00p
”Josh Beamish is turning heads across the continent and emerging as one of Canada’s most promising choreographers “- Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail
Joshua Beamish’s newest work “Pierced” will take audiences on a journey through the dark side of love, from its forested depths full of loss and pain into the open field of love’s fulfilling splendor. Set to music by David Lang that begins with a heaviness mimicking the brutality of an arrow to the heart and ends with the giddiness of frivolous joy, “Pierced” reminds us that to truly love another human being we must open ourselves to exploring the greatest depths of human emotion, both beautiful and painful.
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Festival of New Works
ADI Metro Incubator Artists
June 7 at 7:00p & 8:00p | June 8 at 1:00p, 4:00p, & 7:30p | June 9 at 2:00p & 5:00p
In June 2013, ADI will wrap up their season by bringing you the Festival of New Works, showcasing brand-new choreographic material from select choreographers in the DC area. The Festival of New Works, born out of ADI’s Metro Incubator Program, will be the culmination of year-long artist residencies with Erica Rebollar, Karen Reedy,and Vincent Thomas. After a year of pressure-free processes and free space, all three DC choreographers will debut premiere works exclusively to the ADI audience.
ERICA REBOLLAR
Erica Rebollar/Rebollar Dance was made a “Top Pick” of Washington City Paper’s Fall Arts Guide, highlighted in “Most Memorable Dance Performances of 2011”, and nominated for a Metro DC Dance Award in “Outstanding New Work”.
KAREN REEDY
In 2008, Karen Reedy was a recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Local Dance Commissioning Project, for the creation of her site-specific work, Sleepwalking. KRD was named one of the “Best in Dance 2011” by Sarah Kaufman in The Washington Post.
VINCENT THOMAS
Vincent Thomasis a recipient of a 2009 Best of Baltimore — Choreographer Award, 2009 Baker Artist Choice Award, a 2009 Metro DC Dance Award for Outstanding Overall Production, several Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Dance Awards, a 2008 Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission Project Award, two 2006 Metro DC Dance Awards for Emerging Choreographer, and Outstanding New Work. His work We Hold These Truths… was selected for the 2012 National ACDFA Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.