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An all-Boston-premiere season!
 Featuring presentations by the 2007, 2008, and 2009 recipients of the Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Project!
Meet the Artists Performances give audiences the chance to meet today’s leading contemporary choreographers in an intimate and informal setting. Each evening includes a pre-performance work-in-progress — sometimes held outside on the lawn, weather permitting — plus a performance of works by Summer Stages’ visiting faculty members or resident choreographers, followed by a Q&A with the artists.
Performances are held either in Concord Academy’s fully air-conditioned 400-seat Performing Arts Center or the school's 2,500 square foot, state-of-the art dance studio, designed by renowned architect Graham Gund. On Thursday evenings, audience members may also attend a pre-performance open rehearsal in the dance studio.
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Julieta Cervantes
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Armitage Gone! Dance
Ligeti Essays, The Watteau Duets and Excerpt from Mashup
“Fiercely pure….Armitage follows a path cleared by George Balanchine…” Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice
Thursday July 9 at 8pm
Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy
Tickets $25 / Students and Seniors $15
Running time 60 minutes
Reserved seating
Opening this year's festival will be three works of edgy classicism that span three decades of Karole Armitage’s career. Ligeti Essays (2007) is a suite of concise, jewel-like movements choreographed to music by the great Hungarian composer György Ligeti. Armitage's now-classic The Watteau Duets (1985), explores the different stages of a pas de deux in dance… and in life. The work is set to music by David Linton performed live by the explosive keyboard- and-drum duo TALIBAM! In an excerpt from her newest work, Mashup, Armitage continues to push and play with classical vocabulary and explore a new era of contemporary dance. Inspired by the work of French Situationist philosopher Guy Debord, especially his The Society of the Spectacle, the piece is set to an original score by Daniel Iglesia's that combines Mozart's 1779 Sinfonia Concertante with punk classics by X-Ray Spex.
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George Lange Photography |
Nell Breyer/Alissa Cardone/Lorraine Chapman/Bronwen MacArthur
The Disappearing Woman
Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Project 2008
Saturday July 11
7:30pm
$25, $15 ICA members, students and seniors
For tickets visit www.icaboston.org or
call the ICA box office at 617-478-3103
Reserved seating
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
100 Northern Avenue, Boston
The world premiere of a new media/movement collaboration that examines the disappearing woman through choreographic and media elements. The piece was commissioned and developed by Summer Stages Dance, in association with the Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Regional Dance Development Initiative of the New England Foundation for the Arts, and Vermont Performance Lab.
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ShaLeigh Comerford |
Chris Elam/Misnomer Dance Theater
Being Together
Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Project 2007
“A true original, Mr. Elam is one of the most individualistic of modern dance voices today.” Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
Thursday July 16
8pm
Tickets $25 / Students and Seniors $15
Reserved seating
Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy
166 Main Street, Concord
Whether creating dance for film, the web, installations or the stage, Misnomer is daring, inventive, and unpredictable. Being Together continues Misnomer’s history of collaborating with renowned composers, featuring original music by Bang on a Can All-star’s Evan Ziporyn. Known for its improbable partnering and unique movement language, Misnomer offers an evening of curious encounters, outrageous undertakings and transformative dance.
Mirroring the company’s innovative off-stage efforts to find new ways of connecting, the three dances comprising Being Together — Too Late Tulip, Rock.Paper.Flock. and Zipper — are themselves about the nuances and complexities of human interaction: our quest to connect, understand and be understood. The new work has been developed over the past year through awarded residencies and commissions from Summer Stages Dance, Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYU’s Skirball Center and The Yard.
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David Parker & The Bang Group
A 10th Anniversary Celebration at Summer Stages Dance
“Parker’s dancers have vivid dramatic presence, and spot-on timing.”
—Karen Campbell, the Boston Globe
Thursday July 23
8pm
Tickets $25 / Students and Seniors $15
David Parker & The Bang Group will offer a special event this summer to celebrate their tenth annual season at Summer Stages Dance. Artistic relationships of this depth are rare and something out of the ordinary is called for.
Parker and his company will offer a rollicking cabaret-tinged show with singing,dancing, highlights from the last ten years of shows and some on-the-spot choreography bringing the audience into the creative process itself. Parker will serve as the evening's hoofing-and-crooning guide spiking the proceedings with stories and explanations which animate his devotion to dancing and making dance. This is a luxurious occasion for the Bang Group to reveal how they do what they do and to open a new kind of dialogue with their beloved Summer Stages audience.
SPECIAL EVENT!
at The Institute of Contemporary Arts/Boston
Gabri Christa and Germaul Barnes
Mama etcetera, a site-specific work
Summer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Project 2009
Saturday July 25
10am - 3pm
Admission to the museum for this performance is is free for families with children under the age of 12. No more than 2 adults per family.
The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Site-specific new dance and film work specially created for The Institute of Contemporary Art’s Harborway and The Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater
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Bob Morrison |
Choreographers Project Showcase
Featuring new work by Germaul Barnes, and fellowship recipients
Saturday, July 25
8pm
Tickets $25 / Students and Seniors $15
Reserved seating
A showcase of new work developed by Choreographers’ Project Fellows and featuring an original piece by dancer and choreographer, and former principal of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Germaul Barnes, performed by Summer Stages Workshop participants.
Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy
166 Main Street, Concord
All performances run one hour and end with an additional 15-minute Q&A with the artists, and are held in Concord Academy’s fully air-conditioned 400-seat Performing Arts Center, except where noted. On Thursday evenings, audience members may also attend a pre-performance open rehearsal in the dance studio.
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