Johnson, a choreographer hailed for her originality and sophisticated musicality, will present her company in a preview of a new work set to music by Philip Glass as well her Untitled, 2010, to music by Bach.
The program will preview a new quartet set to Philip Glass's Piano Etudes and Poems for Solo Cello, which, like many of Lydia Johnson's works, is primarily abstract yet rings with emotional resonance. The piece sprang from the choreographer's recent stay at a rural summer cottage in Maine, an experience that evoked memories of childhood summers in rented homes in New England. Set in the interior of a summer house, the dance fuses the present with memories of relationships past.
The showing will also include a performance of Untitled, 2010, to Solo Violin Partitas and Sonatas of JS Bach, created in 2010 for the Company's 10th Anniversary Season. Inspired simply by the intense beauty of the music, the piece unfolds through its three sections with a series of patterns and relationships - a pas de deux for a man and a woman, and a duet for two men emerge as central passages in this complex, layered work.
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