COMPANY REPERTORY

Choreography: Jim May
Music: Lin-Hue, Oregon
2 dancers, 8 minutes

A nuanced portrait of a relationship, that grows in a confined space from its first tentative meeting, to mesmerizing courtship, to acceptance of a common path.

Choreography: David Parker
Music: Jean-Michel Bossini
7 dancers, 5 musicians, 15 minutes

Dancers and musicians share a fantastic voyage in La Nef des fous (The Ship of Fools), a wry, poignant work inspired by the paintings of Heironymus Bosch. In David Parker's alternate cosmogeny, musicians give birth to dancers, dancers reply with rhythm, and the conversation develops to a haunting conclusion.

"The musicians sketch choreographic movement. The dancers respond to them in rhythm. Each one tries in the discipline of the other with gusto. It's a true melding of the arts."

Haut Anjou, 2004

Choreography: Jim May
Music: Philippe Boivin
5 musicians, 8 minutes

The musicians of le concert impromptu set Philippe Boivin’s evocative music into motion in this exploration of sound and space.

Choreography: Rae Ballard
12 dancers, 50 minutes

A full-length work about Vincent Van Gogh as seen through the eyes of his sister-in-law, Johanna, who preserved his paintings and translated and published his letters after his death. This four-act dance-theatre piece uses an ensemble of 12 dancers, with an original script created by Ms. Ballard from Vincent’s letters and Johanna’s memoirs.

The score includes classical music, traditional Japanese music, French folk songs, as well as original transitional music. The production also uses projections, slides, sets for three different locales and canvases of various sizes.