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Parsons Dance performs at Mahaiwe Sunday November 9
11.4.08
Photo of Parsons Dance by Lois Greenfield
(GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS.) -- Parsons Dance comes to The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Sunday November 9 at 7pm.
Considered "One of the Great Movers of Modern Dance" by the New York Times, David Parsons has enjoyed a remarkable career as a performer, choreographer, teacher, director and producer of dance.
Since 1985, Parsons Dance has toured an average of 32 weeks per year, to more than 235 cities, 30 countries, six continents and millions of audience members.
Parsons Dance will be at The Mahaiwe for one show only. The program includes Fill The Woods with Light, Slow Dance, Swing Shift, Kind of Blue, Caught and Nascimento.
Tickets are $47 / $42 Mahaiwe Members and $20 Students. Visit www.mahaiwe.org or phone the Box Office: 413-528-0100.
Details on their Mahaiwe program are as follows:
FILL THE WOODS WITH LIGHT - inspired by David Parsons’ love of jazz music and dramatic lighting effects. This ensemble piece for the entire Company features a commissioned score by Phil Woods, performed by the Phil Woods Little Big Band.
SLOW DANCE - This Parsons work is sultry and smoky, full of intricate, quasi-acrobatic manipulations of bodies from the sky to the floor. This piece occurs only in a 12x12 box of light in the center of the stage. Even while confined to such a small amount of the stage, the couples utilize a series of beautiful geometric shapes as they dance to the haunting, romantic score.
SWING SHIFT- This work deals with the journeys that humans go through in life. Just as the feeling of manifest destiny pervaded American thought in the late 18th and early 19th century, that same exploratory sentiment exists now as people delve internally, rather than geographically. With outer space left as the last truly unexplored frontier, it is this sense of internal discovery that is accessible to everyone as a means to question and investigate.
KIND OF BLUE is a flirtatious and alluring quartet commissioned and presented at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. The quartet casually turns, twists and struts through pools of light with a confident, competitive air. The dancers vie for time in the spotlight with a deliberately nonchalant “anything you can do, I can do better” attitude about their dancing.
CAUGHT - David Parsons’ unforgettable signature stroboscopic tour-de-force, features a solo dancer defying gravity and flying above the stage. Described by one critic as “one of the great pieces of recent times.”
NASCIMENTO- An exuberant tribute to the Brazilian spirit and to the music of guitarist Milton Nascimento, who created the score as a gift after seeing Parsons Dance perform. Nascimento moves spaciously, floating on waves of seductive samba rhythms. Couples fly across the stage in sophisticated spatial patterns, abandoning themselves to the uninhibited thrill of dancing. A bright rainbow of colorful costumes, music, and lights, this inventive, imaginative, and uplifting piece proves to be a celebration of life, music, and dance.
Mr. Parsons has created more than 70 works for Parsons Dance. He has received commissions over the years from The American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, AlvinAiley American Dance Theater, the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow, the Spoleto Festival and Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, to name a few. His work has been performed by Paris Opera Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Nederlands Danse Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Hubbard Street Dance and BatSheva Dance Company of Israel, among many others. “Sexy and energizing. Athletic showstopper leaps. High-octane youthful movement with a smile.” _The New York Times.
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