Dmitri Peskov + Snow College Choreography / Fragments in Solitude

Fragments in Solitude is a silent-disco performance that showcases exhibitions, Juxtaposing Afro-Surrealism by Chelle Barbour and The Wayside and Whispers by Fidalis Buehler. Dancers guide the audience through the exhibitions, immersing the viewer and expanding the limits of performance.

Bring your own bluetooth headphones if you wish to access the playlist.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Snow College’s Choreography course introduces students to principles and practices of creating dance choreography as a form of human expression. Students will generate new choreographic material using improvisation; manipulation of movement; creation and performance of short movement studies; study of other choreographic voices, as well as observation, critical analysis, and self-reflection culminating in a self-produced showing of student works.

Dmitri Peskov was born in Moscow, Russia where he studied martial arts at a number of underground clubs and ballet at Tatiana Timofeeva Dance Center. After moving to the United States, he founded and produced Spectrum Dances Festival with the help from a Special Projects Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. He then co-founded and co-directed DanceLoop Chicago Company for which he received high critical acclaim for his choreographed works. As an independent artist and dancer, he has worked with Chicago Ballet, Chicago Festival Ballet, Salt Creek Ballet, Joel Hall & Dancers, Wellspring Dance Company, Shirley Mordine & Co Dance Theatre, Tet a Tet Theatre, Borealis Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and has collaborated with a number of professional choreographers.

Peskov holds an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University and an MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from Northern Illinois University (where he also worked as a Graduate Assistant for the Philosophy Department). He has studied Meisner Technique at the Gaitley Poole Acting Conservatory and Lecoq and Suzuki technique at The Chicago School for Theatre Creators. He is a certified pilates, yoga and tai chi instructor and a poet whose works have been published in England, Australia, United States and Russia. Peskov is a recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Choreography Award and the Link Up Residency Award and is currently the Artistic Director of Snow College’s Dance Ensemble.

This event is free and open to the public.

Granary Arts is supported in part by Utah Division of Arts & Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts, Utah Department of Cultural & Community Engagement, VIA Art Fund in partnership with Wagner Foundation, Utah Humanities, George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation, The Sam and Diane Stewart Family Foundation, Le Meridien Salt Lake City Downtown Hotel, The Ephraim City RAP Tax Fund, Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area, Sanpete County Travel, and generous support from Ephraim City.