Erica Dankmeyer
Photographer: Anne Helene Gjelstad
REPERTORY
Que Color Tiene El Amor (2008)
Choreography: Ricardo Flores
Music: James Newton Howard, The Young Gods, Wim Mertens
Duet
A couple longing for their soul mate, (perhaps each other?), but struggle to break habitual patterns and shed masks of insecurity.
6 - 1 (2010)
Choreography: Martin Lofsnes
Music: Martin Lofsnes
Sextet
Exploring the juxtaposition of stillness and rapid dynamic changes. A group work with an internal focus. Moving as one body; each individual must submit, yet hold on to their individuality.
TIME IS MONEY (1932)
Choreography: Jane Dudley
Solo
Images of the devastation experienced in America in the early 1930s, set to a powerful poem by Sol Funaroff.
LAMENTATION (1930)
(A dance of sorrow)
Choreography: Martha Graham
Music: Zoltan Kodaly
Solo
Ms. Graham's masterpiece is a manifestation of grief itself.
NIGHT JOURNEY (1948)
(excerpt)
Choreography: Martha Graham
Music: William Shuman
Duet
The meeting of Jocasta and Oedipus Rex; Queen and King
Wife and Husband...
Mother and Son.
DEVIL IN MASSACHUSSETS (1952)
Choreography: Mary Anthony
Music: Cameron McCosh
Group
Ms Anthony uses the Salem Witch Trials commenting on the blacklisting of artists and others with perceived communist affiliations in the 1950s.
THE THOUGHT BEHIND/STILL THE LINE (2007)
Choreography: Erica Dankmeyer
Music: Gyorgy Ligeti
Quintet
"The thought behind, I strove to join Unto the thought before – but sequence
ravelled out of Sound – Like Balls – upon a Floor." (Emily Dickinson)
This quintet captures the struggle to express elusive ideas that seem to
unravel in the process of defining them, like trying to remember dreams. A puzzle of unpredictable interactions forms, with lonely moments yielding to fragments of connectedness and intimacy.
THE DISTANCE WITHIN (2002)
Choreography: Erica Dankmeyer
Music: Morley
Solo
"There is beauty in the reaching" a dialogue with that inner voice
COUNTER-TIME (2002)
Choreography: Filip A. Condeescu
Music: Salif Keita
Duet
Counter-time invites the audience to descend into the quest for intimacy between two men.
PHOENIX (2003)
Choreography: Martin Løfsnes
Music: Patrick Daugherty, Martin Løfsnes, Annie Lennox
Solo
A dance of hope, holding on to the belief that out of every tragedy; beauty will one day grow.
MAKTUB (2007)
Dancemaker: Lauri Stallings
Music: Matmos, Gustavo Santaolalla,
Max Richter, the Balanescu Quartet
Quartet
This ballet is an exploration of speed and possibility; a study of the intricacy of community and a meeting of two very different worlds.