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Kelley Donovan & Dancers
presents
Fractured Realm
Sunday, February 5, 2012 ~ 7:00pm
Cost: $20.00 General Donation
$12.00 Student/Seniors/DAN/BDA members!
Tickets on-line: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/214834. Call (617) 388-3247 for more information.
See http://kddcompany.wordpress.com for clips of rehearsal and the process of making this work.
 Kelley Donovan & Dancers will present Fractured Realm, a new work exploring creation, destruction and connection.
Mariah Steele will present her newest work “No Sugar, Please,” a solo with text and movement exploring the cultural history of tea.
Kelley Donovan & Dancers create dance that investigates the internal world of transformation and expresses the intimate self through movement, ranging from soft fluidity to athletic physicality. With a sequential use of the torso and abrupt energy changes and weight shifts, dancers physically explore the theme of impermanence by never letting their weight settle for too long in one shape, moving with an restless urgency toward the next physical event. A non-linear series of images and serpentine movement vocabulary gather strength in its accumulation of details, gestures and exchanges of energy.
Exploring the gray area between the extremes of purely classical modern dance and theatrical narrative, Donovan creates movement rich with imagery, experienced viscerally and expressive of transformation.
Dance Magazine said "Tempering strength with vulnerability, she can turn sharp edges into soft corners with sensuous fluidity." The Boston Phoenix said " The piece transcended the ordinary … Donovan's movement, …, is lush and lyrical. Few choreographers today have such a clear sense of space and continuity. Donovan's … other special gift is for composition, the building of patterns in time and space.“ The company’s work has been chosen among the best of the year by The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Boston Herald among others. The New York Times called her work “vibrant, imaginative...with a rare feeling for stage space.”
Kelley Donovan splits her time between New York City and Boston teaching and performing in both cities and has performed work by Ann Carlson and Liz Lerman. She and has taught dance at MIT and currently teaches at UMass Boston and Third Life Studios in Somerville (classses also starting on Feb. 5th!) and is a guest choreographer at Roger Williams University. Her choreography has been produced by World Music/Crasharts, The Boston Institute of Contemporary Art at Summer Stages Dance, MIT, Mobius, Harvard, The Choreographers Group, Salem State College and The Federal Reserve Bank in Boston and Cunningham Studio, DanceNYC/Now Raw Festival, Galapegos, The Hatch, Joyce SoHo, The Rover, Movement Research, The DUO Theater and the 92nd St. Y in New York City. Her work has received financial support from The Artist Foundation of Boston and a Space Grant from the 92nd St. Y in New York City. Kelley studied choreography with Mark Morris and Bessie Schönberg and received a B.A. from Bradford College in 1989.
~Collaboration of Dance and Music~
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秋の句 FALL
稲妻や闇の方行く五位の声
A Lightning flash-
and, piercing the darkness,
the night heron’s cry
-Basho |
冬の句 WINTER
木枯らしの果てはありけり海の音
The winter blast
has its final end
in the sound of the sea
-Gonsui |
春の句 SPRING
枯芝やや ゝかげろふの一二寸
Over the withered grass,
at last an inch or so
of heat-waves
-Basho |
Friday, March 16, 2012 ~ 8:00pm
and
Saturday, March 17, 2012 ~ 8:00pm
at THE DANCE COMPLEX
JULIE INCE THOMPSON THEATRE
536 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, CAMBRIDGE, MA
Costs:
$20 or more donation per person would be appreciated.
Please make checks payable to “DANCE CURRENTS, INC”.
We will donate 75% of our profits from these concerts to the
Japan Red Cross "Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Fund"
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER:
KATHY HASSINGER
MUSIC DIRECTOR/ C0-COLLABORATOR:
YUJI KANO
POET & READER: BARBARA KENNARD
MUSIC BY:
A. RACHMANINOFF,T. TAKEMITSU, A. PIAZZOLA,
I. FARRENC, N. BOULANGER.
PERFORMERS:
DANCERS:MINA MURAOKA (SOLOIST), JENNIFER BURPEE, SARAH JOSSELYN, LAUREN PREVITE, KAI SHERMAN, ALI SMITH
FLUTE:YUJI KANO
GUITAR: DANIEL ACSADI
For more information, call : 617-965-1569 or email:
KATHYHASSINGER@GMAIL.COM
IN MEMORY OF DISASTER VICTIMS,
EASTERN JAPAN EARTHQUAKE & TSUNAMI,
MARCH 11, 2011
What is Haiku?
Haiku (俳句 , plural haiku, is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characteriZed by three qualities:
▪ The essence of haiku is "cutting" (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colors the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.
▪ Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (also known as morae), in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively. Any one of the three phrases may end with the kireji. Although haiku are often stated to have 17 syllables, this is incorrect as syllables and on are not the same.
▪ A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words. The majority of kigo, but not all, are drawn from the natural world. This, combined with the origins of haiku in pre-industrial Japan, has led to the inaccurate impression that haiku are necessarily nature poems.
THE HEART AND SOUL OF THE POEM MUST REACH FAR BEYOND THE WORDS THEMSELVES LEAVING AN INDELIBLE AFTERTASTE -BASH0
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