Veteran choreographer Cid Pearlman celebrates her longstanding collaboration with renowned San Francisco-based cellist and composer, Joan Jeanrenaud, in an evening of three works: Strange Toys, small variations and Your Body is Not a Shark.
The earliest piece on the program, Strange Toys, a 10-minute duet for two women, had its New York premiere at the Joyce Soho in 2004. Nominated for two Los Angeles Horton Awards, small variations premiered as a 30-minute sextet in 2006. For this program Pearlman is adapting the work for four female dancers. "In this reimagining of small variations, the women are doing the lifting that the men originally did, and it's exciting to see how they adapt this choreography to their bodies," said Pearlman.
Finally, Your Body is Not a Shark, an evening-length work, premiered at ODC Theater in San Francisco in 2013. Four sections of the nine-part whole will be presented on this program, with the role of the poet, originally performed by Denise Leto, shared by the dancers.
"In revisiting these old works, I'm conscious of making a place for the dancers to be themselves inside the dance," continued Pearlman. "These works are not frozen records from my archive. I see them as living things because dancers are not interchangeable. And if the works have a handmade feeling, that's by design. I want the selvage edge to show, for the seams to be visible, with threads waiting to be snipped off."
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