WHEN:
April 11 and 12, 2025
WHERE:
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Bram Goldsmith Theater
9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Beverly Hills 90210
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...YEAR
Choreography. Andrea Miller In Collaboration With A.I.M
Music Fred Despierre
Lighting Design Dan Scully
Costume Design Orly Anan Studio
Scenic Design Andrea Miller in collaboration with Dan Scully
The currency of this generation, and of the future, lies in information, in data. When logic becomes our entry point into every space, the body loses its relevance, its experience, its feelings, its infinite differences from one person to the next. Being present in a digital, remote, or virtual capacity changes how we as humans put stock into body language, and the exchange of being in each other’s presence. New Miller turns up the volume on human presence, embodiment, feeling, uniqueness, identity, and our reliance on bodily expression. The 30-minute piece welcomes its dancers and audiences into a space of ritual, practice, and meditation, where we enter the sublime through an investigation into the stamina of the body.
Shell of A Shell of The Shell
Choreography Rena Butler
Music Composition Darryl J. Hoffman
Lighting Design Dan Scully
Costume Design Hogan Mclaughlin
Exploring and revisiting the varied process of decolonizing the self as a point of departure, Rena Butler’s reimagines and abstract the narrative of the monolithic, titular character ‘King Kong’. Throughout the work, Butler poses the question “How does an environment force the configuration of the individual?” Through the contained scope of momentous imagery and buoyant tension, Shell of A Shell of the Shell will dissect themes of self-excavation in restrictive spaces to open the mind’s eye of cultural differences and the challenges one may face in operating under, building, and dismantling perpetuated systems or habits.
Just Your Two Wrists
Choreography Paul Singh
MUSIC. just (after song of songs) composed by David Lang from the album, the little match girl passion performed Trio Mediaeval By arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., o/b/o G. Ricordi & Co.. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH. Publisher: Red Poppy, Ltd. (ASCAP)/ Universal Music Publishing Group Label: Cantaloupe Music, LLC
The music, just (after song of songs), composed by David Lang and performed by Trio Medieval, is constantly creating chasms of loss, as well as potential. In each pocket of silence, there’s an opportunity for the dancer to keep striving. But we never know what kind of movement will come pouring out of the body—the dancer has to change qualities as fast as life happens. Physically, the work keeps unraveling in a way that begs to be seen. The entire series of steps, when attempted in just the right order and just the right timing, reveals the picture of a hand waving in the distance leaving the begging impression of “wait for me”, or “remember me” or even “goodbye, for now.”
2x4
Choreography. Kyle Abraham in collaboration with A.I.M
Music Shelly Washington
Costume Design Reid & Harriet.
Lighting Designer Dan Scully
Centered around a charged experimental classical score by composer Shelley Washington for two baritone saxophone musicians, Kyle Abraham creates an energized new quartet entitled 2x4. At its core, 2x4 is a new dance work that uses geometrical playfulness to explore conversation, confrontation, stillness, and bustling movement phrasing.
Its choreographic score echoes and harmonizes with Washington’s dynamic composition through several fast-paced curvilinear weaving patterns and various contrasting angular shape-based sequences, further articulating the interplay between opposing vocabularies..."
