Through Lines – presented by Seán Curran Company and Decent Dance – celebrates legacy, lineage and the ever-expanding web of creative connections that make the dance world simultaneously small and vast. Three choreographers on the program are NYU Tisch Dance alumni: Seán Curran (BFA, ‘83), Brian Feigenbaum (MFA, ‘89) and Tony Guglietti (BFA, ‘97). Guglietti is a former student of Feigenbaum and a founding member of Seán Curran Company, while Kristin Wagner, who completes the roster of choreographers, is a former student of Feigenbaum and longtime dance partner of Guglietti. Together as Decent Dance, Guglietti and Wagner create contemporary dances that utilize both wit and truth – learned from Curran, Feigenbaum, and the school of life – and are thrilled to produce this intergenerational concert featuring talented dancers from NYC, Boston, and beyond. For Curran, a Boston native, the performances are a homecoming – from Irish Step dance classes as a child at Joy of Movement Center and ballet classes as a young professional during the early days of The Dance Complex to reuniting with friend and colleague Guglietti and sharing the work of his NYC-based contemporary dance company with hometown audiences.
SEÁN CURRAN COMPANY:
Seán Curran Company promotes the development of contemporary dance as an art form and educates the public through innovative and emotionally moving performances and engagement programs. The company’s impeccably crafted dance works offer audiences a richly poetic experience that includes the artistic vision of Artistic Director Seán Curran along with contemporary composers and visual artists as core collaborators. Founded in 1997, highlights from the company’s history include NYC seasons featuring commissioned works at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Irish Arts Center, NYU Skirball Center, The Joyce Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Dance New Amsterdam, Guggenheim Museum, New Victory Theater, 92nd Street Y/Harkness Dance Project, Danspace Project, Symphony Space, Central Park Summerstage and Celebrate Brooklyn, along with touring to more than 100 venues in the U.S. and Europe and touring to Central Asia, cultural ambassadors of the State Department’s DanceMotion USA program.
DECENT DANCE:
Tony Guglietti received his BFA from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. Upon graduation, he became a founding member of Seán Curran Company and toured across the globe. Kristin Wagner hasn’t done any of that, but she manages to work through her inferiority complex in rehearsal just fine. Together as Decent Dance, the pair creates accessible contemporary performance works that dabble in comedy, dramedy, and all things silly, sweet and true. The duet’s collaborative creative process relies on a foundation of sharing space and weight, balancing impulse and input, the occasional lovers’ quarrel, and Cheez-Its®. Tony and Kristin take great joy in teaching composition and expression through a contemporary dance lens to students of all ages, and have taught at the Dance Theatre of Greenville (SC), Free Form Dance Academy (MA), New England Conservatory (MA) and The Dance Complex (MA). Decent Dance has presented work in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, and South Carolina at The Dance Complex, the Boston Center for the Arts, AS220, the Maine International Dance Festival, and the Equinox Dance Festival, among others. Their favorite performance to date was their wedding in September 2022 at the cutest little flower farm you ever did see in Barre, MA. In late 2023, Decent Dance welcomed Nico Guglietti to the company after a lengthy audition process. He made his stage debut in June 2024, at six months old.
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