Dana Reitz | Jennifer Tipton | Sara Rudner
Necessary Weather
March 24 at 7:30 p and March 25 at 2:00p *NO LATE SEATING*
NECESSARY WEATHER. Based on a concept by choreographer and dancer Dana Reitz, and created in collaboration with lighting designer Jennifer Tipton, Necessary Weather is an inquiry into the climates of movement and light. Performed by Reitz and dancing collaborator Sara Rudner, in silence with a subtle score that finely weaves light and movement, Necessary Weather is a journey along the edges of dream and real time. When the work premiered in 1994, Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times wrote, “Every dance performance uses theatrical lighting, but none has explored the interaction of light and movement with such striking originality as Necessary Weather.”
NECESSARY WEATHER touring included the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, The Festival d’Avignon, the London Dance Umbrella, The Festival d’Automne in Paris, Culturgest in Lisbon and Rivolit Teatro Municipal in Porto, Portugal. In 2009, at Arnie Malina’s invitation, the work was recreated for performance at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Vermont), which was made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. Since then, it has been performed at the Baryshnikov Art Center in New York.
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Ballet ADI & Doug Elkins Choreography, Etc.
Two Othellos: Ballet ADI’s Othello and Mo(or)town/Redux
May 5 at 7:30p and May 6 at 2:00p
Two dance companies + one Shakespearian tragedy = a night of dance you will never forget. For two performances only, ADI presents an evening of Othellofeaturing a new modern dance reconstruction of the Shakespearian play by critically acclaimed choreographer Doug Elkins juxtaposed against a balletic retelling of the evocative tale of power, love, jealousy and race by Ballet ADI Artistic Director Runqiao Du.
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Metro Incubator: Tzveta Kassabova
May 12 at 7:30p and May 13 at 2:00p
Tzveta Kassabova believes that dance is a visual art form. She has always been fascinated by the concept of space, and is constantly trying to address it, both in her choreography and design. Tzveta was born in Bulgaria. At different times she has been a gymnast, physicist, and meteorologist. As a member of DanceWeb she took part in the Vienna ImpulsTanz in 1997 and 1998. She came to the U.S. in 1999 as a graduate student at the University of Maryland to study Meteorology. In 2004 she moved to New York, after an exciting summer at ADF and residency in The Yard. As a dancer, Tzveta has been part of Ed Tyler, Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig and David Dorfman Dance companies, and has performed in works of Mark Haim, Nancy Bannon, Maurice Fraga, Zoltan Nagy, Joshua Bisset, Netta Yerushalmy, and Colleen Thomas, among others. Her work as a choreographer has been presented at CSPAC(MD), Dance Place(DC), Test!0 (Croatia), NBU(Bulgaria), Judson Church(NYC), Dixon Place(NYC), Mulberry Street Theater(NYC), Artomatic. She received a Metro DC Dance Award (2008), the Prince George’s Arts Council grant (2009) and Maryland State Arts Council award (2010 and 2011). She holds three Masters degrees. Tzveta loves creating costumes, video projections, set designs and installations for her work.