Pentacle Showcase at APAP

Excerpt from Part I: Coming Together: with performers Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Riener, Jennifer Lafferty, Emily Stone, Rommel Salveron.
This new evening length dance uses Frederick Rzewski's political and minimal scores Coming Together and Attica, composed in 1972 with text from prisoners letters, to frame the dystopia of the performers world. To be presented in the round with 12 musicians, arranged and conducted by Arthur Solari, the work juxtaposes the violence and tenderness that arises from isolation. Full production will include lighting by Aaron Copp and costumes by Mary Jo Mecca in late 2010. Development funds provided by UCRHSS and Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

Friday, Jan 8th, 10:35 p.m.

Spring Dance Festival

Advanced students perform a new Lazier dance alongside works by Twyla Tharp, Susan Jaffe, Camille Brown and Mark Morris.

Friday — Sunday, February 19 — 21

Evening of Enchantment: Toy Box, Krazy Kat and Table's Clear

Rebecca will choreograph the restored version of the French composer Claude Debussy's final masterpiece, the ballet The Toy-Box (La Boîte à Joujoux) with set design by Ricardo Hernandez, costumes by Anita Yavich and lighting by Aaron Copp. On the program will also be a staging of John Carpenter's Krazy Kat by Tracy Bersley and a new collaboration between Paul Lansky and Tina Fehlandt.
This production of The Toy-Box will be based on the version of the score premiered in 1918 by the Moscow Chamber Theater that includes an unknown “jazz overture.” The scenario was written and illustrated by André Hellé, a prominent children’s writer. Charles Baudelaire, the French Symbolist writer, suggests in his essay “A Philosophy of Toys” that toys are a child’s first exposure to art, to the power of enchantment and, at its heart, The Toy-Box expresses a similar belief. In it, Debussy wanted to return us to that realm of wonder, innocence, and playful imagination.

Thursday — Saturday, Apr 8 — Apr 10