Ririe-Woodbury's SPRING SEASON

SPRING SEASON is composed of three compelling pieces including two powerful world premieres.

1. Choreographer and 2013 New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) winner Joanna Kotze creates a new work on the company called Star Mark. This piece challenges the subjective nature of beauty and normality through a complex web of highly physical movement. Says Kotze, “What does it mean to say something is beautiful when just the thought of beauty is so subjective? And what does that mean for dance and movement? How do we rate things, rate ourselves, come to conclusions that one thing is more beautiful than another… I want to challenge the perception of movement’s beauty from both the dancer’s and the viewer’s perspective.” This new dance will be set to an original sound score by composer Ryan Seaton from the band Callers.

2. Processing (world premiere) – part 2 of the Together Alone Trilogy by Artistic Director Daniel Charon — examines the new evolution of self and how it’s being shaped by our online and offline interactions. What it is like to exist within the vast openness of a borderless digital landscape? Through abstract movement, Processing examines our arrival into our current state of a new moderated existence––a  space where we can be anonymous, real, or imagined. Multi-media composer Michael Wall will create an electronically generated score to accompany this work which he will perform live.

Says Charon about the trilogy, “I’m interested in creating a series of works that explore the multiplicity of our virtual selves and how its impact fundamentally changes our human psychology. The Together Alone trilogy delves deeply into a continued conversation about our current evolutionary state as human beings.”

3. 50 Years (1996) by nationally renowned performance artist and choreographer, Ann Carlson, is an innovative take on the passage of time according to the perceptual calculations on the tribe. The piece goes far beyond the confines of traditional “dance” into a realm that is best inhabited by performance art. It is primitave and innocent in it’s nature and finds the performers on a joint quest where each event can be likened to something that any of us have experienced before. Carlson is an award winning choreographer who borrows from the disciplines of dance, performance, theater, visual and conceptual art, and often dismantles conventional boundaries between artist and subject.

The power and intensity of Ririe-Woodbury’s SPRING SEASON is amplified by it’s placement in the intimate setting of the Leona Wagner Black Box Theater of the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center which offers an immersive viewing experience––giving the audience up-close and personal perspectives as they take in the poetic work 

Enjoy a great night out — starting with a delicious hand crafted cocktail from our friends @ Beehive Gin & LeCroissant Catering. Reception limited to those 21+ Identification required at the door. 

April 7 Beehive Gin Pre-Reception @6:30pm

April 8 Beehive Gin Pre-Reception @6:30pm

April 9 Beehive Gin Pre-Reception @6:30pm