Fri 5/6 & Sat 5/7 @ 7:30PM
GroundWorks DanceTheater greets the spring with a pair of performances this weekend featuring three world premiere pieces.
Two were commissioned from choreographer Pete Chu, who’s previously done works for Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Charlotte Ballet, and the television series So You Think You Can Dance. They’re based on ideas about calm and recovery, call and response, drawing on his background in Tai Chi, Qigong and jazz dance. The non-narrative will(O) is danced to a soundscape by Mike Gordon and British folksinger Joan Aramtrading’s song “Willow,” while (un|re)cover, amplifies the dancers’ voices and he sounds their bodies make with microphones while they dance, combining them with music by . Funkadelic and English composer Nicholas Bracegirdle.
The program is rounded out by Mixtape 2.2 by artist in residence Antonio Brown, set to music by Black Violin, Jib Kiber and Ben Forest, mixed and arranged by Brown, along with social media soundbites.
They’ll perform the program at LatinUs Blackbox Theater at the Pivot Center for Art, Dance and Expression. General admission tickets are $25.
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