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Meany Center for the Performing Arts 2017-18 season


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Meany is primarily a modern and contemporary presenter in Seattle.  From the press release:

 

BANDALOOP
Thursday-Saturday, October 5-7, 2017 at 8 P.M.

A pioneer in vertical dance performance, BANDALOOP weaves dynamic physicality, intricate choreography and the art of climbing to turn the dance floor on its side — performing on theaters, museums, skyscrapers, bridges, billboards and historical sites, and on the sides of cliffs. The company will premiere a new work, commissioned by Meany Center, with music by Gabriel Prokofiev. Also on the program: Harboring, a multi-dimensional dance that moves indoors and out, evoking maritime images of travel, memory and the ocean’s fluidity. Rachael Lincoln, a UW Dance Program assistant professor, is a 15-year member of the company.

LIZT ALFONSO DANCE CUBA
Thursday-Saturday, November 16-18, 2017 at 8 P.M.

Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year, Havana-based Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba features 20 beautiful and technically superb dancers accompanied by an on-stage ensemble of eight exceptional musicians. The multiple award-winning company captures the heart and soul of their Caribbean country with Cuba Vibra!, a lush and infectious series of dance vignettes that showcases Afro-Cuban dance from the ‘50s to today: from cha-cha-cha and mambo, to rumba, conga, bolero and more. Trained in classical ballet and folkloric traditions, Lizt Alfonso’s dancers command the stage with high energy and precision.

BILL T. JONES/ ARNIE ZANE COMPANY
Thursday-Saturday, February 1-3, 2018 at 8 P.M.

The repertory of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. MacArthur award-winning Bill T. Jones’s latest work, Analogy: A Trilogy, is comprised of three evening-length works that reflect Jones’s fierce engagement with race, class, gender, history and identity. Over three nights, Meany Center will present the entire trilogy (one of the first ever presentations in the country). The program, which features a live music soundscape, interconnects the three stories with a focus on memory and the effect of powerful events on the inner lives of individuals.

ANALOGY: A TRILOGY

Program A (Thursday, February 1)
DORA: TRAMONTANE Based on an oral history Jones conducted with 95-year old Dora Amelan, a French Jewish nurse and survivor of WWII. Dora is a meditation on perseverance, resourcefulness and resilience while suggesting the amorphous nature of memory.

Program B: Friday, February 2
LANCE: PRETTY AKA THE ESCAPE ARTIST Based on an oral history Jones conducted with his nephew, Lance T. Briggs. Lance is a tragic, yet humorous journey through the sex trade, drug use and excess during the 1980s.

Program C: Saturday, February 3 
AMBROS: THE EMIGRANT Based on Ambros Adelwarth, a German valet to a dissipated, young scion of a wealthy Jewish family in W. G. Sebald’s celebrated historical novel, The Emigrants. Ambros is an exploration of how trauma can go underground in the psyche to direct the course of an individual’s life.

CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATRE OF TAIWAN
Thursday-Saturday, March 22-24, 2018 at 8 P.M.

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is renowned for transforming ancient aesthetic traditions into stunning modern celebrations of movement. Founder Lin Hwai Min, widely considered the most important choreographer in Asia, returns to Seattle with his company to perform his newest work, Formosa (“beautiful island”). Using gesture, script, song and other elements from the landscape and history of his native Taiwan, Lin and his dancers create a lustrous, transfigured realm of abstract beauty born of land and lore.

HUBBARD STREET DANCE CHICAGO
Thursday-Saturday, April 19-21, 2018 at 8 P.M.

Celebrating its 40th year as one of the most original forces in contemporary dance, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has long been known for its exceptionally talented dancers and a diverse repertoire of adventurous choreography. This contemporary ballet company that “is going to take your breath away” (The Washington Post) is arguably at the top of its game. Their unparalleled versatility and virtuosity will be on full display as they perform works from choreographers such as Twyla Tharp, William Forsythe, Crystal Pite and Nacho Duato.

COMPLEXIONS CONTEMPORARY BALLET
Thursday-Saturday, May 17-19, 2018 at 8 P.M.

Combining technical precision, power and passion, Complexions Contemporary Ballet transcends tradition in a groundbreaking mix of styles ranging from ballet to hip hop. Led by former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater virtuosos and So You Think You Can Dance alums Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, the company is sure to dazzle and thrill with Rhoden’s fiercely kinetic choreography, daredevil dancing by superstar Richardson and company, and a hip soundtrack of pop, rock and classical anthems from Bach to Bowie.

 

And on a non-dance note, they've commissioned a percussion score for one of my favorite childhood films, "Paddle to the Sea."  I will be in the theater weeping and smiling January 25, 2018.

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