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[Christopher Bandy] will also be one of three dancers in Dance Alloy's reprisal of late Swedish choreographer Per Jonsson's masterwork "SCHAKT" (1983). "SCHAKT" employs three beds of loose dirt and three large, vertically suspended metal plates that act as gongs, along with an ominous soundtrack by composer Peter Bengtsson to create an atmospheric and eerie work. In a review of its debut by Dance Alloy, in 2005, I described this 20-minute piece as "the stuff of nightmares" and "a masterpiece that touches nearly all the senses."
Commissioned by Dance Alloy, "The Three Camilles" is inspired by Alexandre Dumas' famous 1848 novel La Dame awe Camelias; the same story Giuseppe, Verdi's opera La Traviata is based upon. The 40-minute modem-dance work re-imagines scenes from the novel that tell the tragic story of Marguerite Gauthier, who falls in love with the young nobleman Armand and is persuaded by his father to give him up to save him from financial ruin. Because Armand doesn't know why she's leaving him, he scorns her. She takes deathly ill, and eventually dies alone of consumption (tuberculosis).See the full content of this document
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Dirt and Deceit
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Dirt and DeceitTHINGS GET a little bit messy, literally and figuratively, in Dance Alloy Theater's latest production, Dirty Little Secrets. Dirt flies along with a few...See the full content of this document
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