Kanopy Dance Company
Theater and Dance
"Autumn Heart," 7:30 pm on 11/13, 8 pm on 11/14 and 2:30 pm, 11/15, Promenade Hall, Overture Center. $24. 258-4141
When: Daily until 11/15/09
Cost: $24
Call: 258-4141
Web: www.kanopydance.org
More Information:
AUTUMN HEART, NOVEMBER 13 - 15, 2009
KANOPY DANCE COMPANY’S 2009 - 2010 CONCERT SEASON
OPENER AT OVERTURE CENTER FOR THE ARTS
7 choreographers, 8 works, 6 premieres...don't miss this chance to enjoy the glorious range of modern, post modern, and contemporary dance! The Autumn Heart Concert will feature guest choreographers: Georgia Corner, Maureen Janson, and Jim Lieberthal; guest dancers from Footholds Dance Project; and guest artist Kiro Kopulos.
Georgia Corner, former principal dancer with the internationally acclaimed Erik Hawkins Dance
Company will premiere Anti-Panurge."The devilishly simple score is a brilliant metaphor for a Rabelaisian tale: Panurge, reacting to a slight by the crew of the ship he's sailing on, gets his revenge by throwing a sheep overboard. The rest of the crew's sheep follow the leader to a watery grave. In this staging, as their world descends into increasing cacophony, the dancers must somehow adapt their happy individuality to create a collective barricade against chaos while avoiding sheepish pitfalls." (G. Corner)
Minneapolis based company, Footholds Dance Project, will perform THE BOTTOM FELL OUT… and then… "Starting with a smash, this trio vaults forward, as two protagonists chomp down to an antagonistic duel. Terse statements accelerate to driving frictions as a new awareness develops from within these personal animosities. This third force quietly manifests a direct change." (J. Lieberthal) In addition, Footholds Artistic Director Jim Lieberthal will premiere INwards, created for Kanopy Dance Company (KDC) principal dancer, Kerry Parker.
Madison’s Maureen Janson has created a duet for KDC's principal dancers Juan Carlos Diaz Velez and Kerry Parker.
Guest artist Kiro Kopulos performs in Yggdrasil, choreographed by KDC's Co-Artistic Director Lisa
Thurrell. This work, lush and romantic, is inspired by the Norse Tree of Life legend and the colors, textures and themes of some early 20th century painters, similar to the work of Maxfield Parish.
KDC's Kerry Parker will premiere A Dialogue, a dance for five performers, inspired by St. Catherine of Sienna and set to medieval music. Dancers include KDC and KDC Company Two (Kanopy School Company).
Obverse, Veiled Mirrors, is a new work for women by KDC's Meg Johnson. "Seven women dressed in black gowns each reveal an individual deconstructed tango and various personas. Competing identities emerge through choreography of gliding strides, overlapping limbs, and quick doll-like movements...leading dancers down a jagged pathway of reawakening." (M. Johnson)
A premiere by KDC's Co-Artistic Director Robert E. Cleary completes the program: "six men in
harnesses...shafts of light…metaphors and extreme physicality."
"What we want the audience to 'get' from this program is that there are many voices of dance which express the human condition in different ways: to enjoy the different forms and styles of dance; to see the beautiful and lyric, the raw and physical; to be entertained, challenged, and inspired." (L. Thurrell)
Tickets: www.overturecenter.com or call 258-4141
Performances: Friday Nov 13 at 7:30 P.M.
Saturday Nov 14 at 8 P.M.
Sunday Nov 15 at 2:30 P.M.
Bios:
GUEST ARTISTS AUTUMN HEART NOV 13-15, 2009
Georgia Corner, guest choreographer, Kanopy School for Modern Dance & Choreography Modern Hawkins faculty. Ms Corner has been praised for her dancing by the NY Times, The Village Voice, and Dallas News. She danced with
Erik Hawkins Dance Co; Douglas Dunn; Lise Brenner, Kriota Willberg, Karen Bernard; Ballet Harren, and Ballet Mink Colbert. In 1998, she founded Wellspring Project, a company based in the Hawkins technique. Wellspring commissioned
new dances, produced New York seasons, and toured New England and Canada. Corner shared awards with Wellspring from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Bossak Heilbronn Foundation. In 2002 Wellspring produced the Erik Hawkins Legacy Forum which drew teachers and students from around the world. Corner taught at the Erik Hawkins School, and The 92nd Street Y. She directed Broome Corner Studio, and has been a guest artist at the
University of Nevada.
Kiro Kopulos, guest artist, is Artistic Director of KirOga Theatre and a frequent guest and collaborator with Kanopy Dance Company. He produces KirOga Theatre here and internationally. In 1998 he was invited to Oakland, CA to perform at Studio For, presenting his No More and Breath, Sound,
Light. With composer Thomas Powell and the Kanopy Dance Company, he choreographed Moon Came Down (1996) partially funded by Madison CitiARTS and Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission grants. He has also presented his work at the Edmonton Fringe Festival (1994, 1995) and San Francisco
Fringe Festival (1997). Since 1985, Kopulos has served as Associate Director of Barrier Free Theatre; founder and Director of Vagrant Muse Performance Art Theatre; Co-Director of Intersect Theatre Dance Company; and Artistic Director of KirOga Theatre. Kopulos has performed in Ann Arbor, MI with Intersect Theatre Dance Company, Ann Arbor Civic Theatre, Frank's Absurd Repertory Theatre, and People Dancing; in Detroit, MI, with Nonce Dance Ensemble; and in Negril, Jamaica with the Harmony Vanover Video Dance Project (Partially funded by NEA, 1987). Locally he performs with Kanopy Dance Company and KirOga Theatre. Kopulos has also choreographed for Strollers Theatre in Madison. He holds a BS in Dance from Eastern Michigan University. He has studied with Connie May, Parker Copley, Karen Steele, Ariel Weymouth-Payne, Eugene Featherstone, Whitley Satrakian, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Moving Company, and Denise Sykula. Kopulos teaches movement meditation and yoga for Dean/St. Mary's Health Works, UW College
of Engineering and Dane County Human Services.
Maureen Janson, guest choreographer. For over 20 years, dance artist Maureen Janson has choreographed and coached movement for a stylistically broad range of dance and theatre. Examples include recent work with the Madison Opera, Artistic Home, Remy Bumppo, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Madison Repertory Theatre, Zephyr Dance, and for ten seasons with American Players Theatre. Her original modern dance works have been performed across the country and internationally. She has taught for the UW Dance Program since 1994 and has held artist residencies at Interlochen Center for the Arts, Wichita State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Université Laval, Alfred University, Victory Gardens Theatre and Illinois Institute of Technology, to name a few. Her articles have been published in Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, and Dance Studio Life. She was preliminary editor for Anna Paskevska's Ballet Beyond Tradition (Routledge Press), and Jan Erkert's Harnessing the Wind, The Art of Teaching Modern Dance Technique (Human Kinetics). Among the numerous citations and
awards for Maureen's work are the Wisconsin Choreographer's Fellowship, National Dance Critics Association Fellowship, and Who's Who of American Women. Maureen currently coordinates dance and movement for the UW Division of Continuing Studies and is Artistic
Director of SMARTDANCE. She dedicates her work to the memory of her loving father.
Jim Lieberthal, guest choreographer, is Director of Footholds Dance Project. As a choreographer
Jim Lieberthal has worked with dancers, singers, actors, musicians, composers, and artists who
are deaf, blind or use assistance to walk or move. He was awarded a McKnight Fellowship in 1986 for his choreographic work. As a dancer, he has worked with Robert Wilson, Demetrius
Klein, James Sewell, Sally Rousse, Clyde Morgan, Bonnie Mathis, Andy Rist, Chuck Davis, Gerry Girouard, Lisa Conlin and others in ballets, modern and African dances. His work has been presented at the Guthrie Theatre, Walker Art Center, Old Arizona Studios, Ritz Theater, Southern Theatre for BALLS cabaret, Patrick's Cabaret, The Theatre in the Round, Pillsbury House Theatre, Flayva Cabaret, Minnesota
Dance Festival and the Minnesota Fringe Festival. His training includes acting (Kabuki, Noh and Western techniques), lighting design, stage management, and 11 years as a classically trained cellist. Now leading the FOOTHOLDS project, with an assembly of wonderful artists in all performing and creative categories, Jim is
"honored to be working with such dear collaborators and wonderful colleagues."
Kari Mosel, guest dancer, Footholds Dance Project, hails from Eau Claire, Wisconsin where she grew up riding horses and climbing trees. She received her BFA in Dance from the University of Minnnesota in 2004. Since graduating, Kari has had the pleasure to dance professionally for Shapiro and Smith Dance, Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater, Time Track Productions, and apprentice for Zenon Dance. In addition to performing, she serves as administrative assistant for both Shapiro and Smith Dance and Stuart Pimsler Dance and Theater. This is Kari's first performance with Jim Lieberthal. Kari feels "extremely honored and blessed to be part of this new community."
Brian Evans, guest dancer, Footholds Dance Project member. Brian J. Evans hails from the hub of Sibley County, Gaylord, MN. He recently graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College with a B.A. in dance. Brian began his professional
career with Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater in 2007. Having recently moved to the Twin Cities, he plans to "find out whether or not the world produces art, or if art produces the world!" Brian would like to thank his "friends and family for their support in pushing him to follow his dreams and to follow them with passion."
Ticket Information
$24 adults/$22 children and students. Groups of 8 or more receive $1 off per ticket
Tickets sales open on Monday, October 5
Call (608) 258-4141;or purchase at Overture Ticket Office; or at the Overture website at
www.overturecenter.com
For Kanopy questions please call (608) 255-2211 or visit www.kanopydance.org
Hearing impaired please call TTY/TDD 866.704.2328
Show times:
Fridays at 7:30 P.M.; Saturdays at 8:00 P.M.; and, Sundays at 2:30 P.M.
All performances are at the Overture Center for the Arts in Promenade Hall
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