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"Bound
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Bound
Edition is the evening-length collaboration between David
Parker and Dutch couture design team Melanie Rozema and Jeroen
Teunissen. This exciting bi-national project is about the
way costumes and dancers can interact to create music and
relationships with clothes and movement. It's an explicitly
functional and dysfunctionally hilarious sartorial obstacle
course. Commissioned through the Danspace Project at Saint
Mark's Church and supported by the New York State Council
for the Arts, Arts International and the Netherland-America
Foundation, the first half of this work premiered in 2001
at Danspace Project in New York. Rozema/Teunissen won a 2002
New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award for their collaboration
with David Parker and The Bang Group. The evening-length production
of "Bound Edition" will premiere in early 2004 at
Dance Theater Workshop in New York. It can be combined in
sections with repertory works offered below.
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"Chapter
1: Slapstuck"
A duet for two men dressed, neck-to-ankle, in black velcro suits.
In these costumes the men can leap upon one another and stick
like flies to flypaper. They can also make a fabulous, syncopated
score out of the sticking and unsticking noises made by their
suits. Hilarious. |
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"Chapter
2: Knotless"
A solo for a woman in beautiful, unusual "dragon pants"
featuring extravagant, trailing straps with which she can wrap,
whip, tie and bind herself. The costume transforms the dancer
by representing memory and experience and allowing her to creat
multiple identies for herself. The ultimate dress-up. |
"Chapter
3: Enough"
A wild and tender romantic quadrangle danced by two men and
two women in all-red formal wear embroidered with actual leaves
and branches. In this literally decadent work love is discovered,
abandoned and regenerated in countless ways. Music by Rachmaninoff.
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"Rainbow
Down"
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Rainbow
Down tapdances barefoot down the yellow brick road with tender
affection and queer intentions. Parker and Kazin recast themselves
as the stars of an 8 minute distillation of Hollywood musical
romance which finds them strutting, fretting and grappling to
songs sung by beloved divae like Debbie Reynolds and Jane Powell.
The rainbow may be upside down but their love is here to stay. |
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"Critical
Mass"
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(co-choreographed
by David Parker and Sara Hook)
Two veteran performers hoist their flagging egoes while strutting
and fretting their tired booties across the boards. |
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"Hind
Legs"
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A solo for a man on pointe who explores the percussive potential
of his toe shoes. This funny, heroic piece is accompanied only
by the stabbing, stomping, tapping sounds of the toe shoes.
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"Pop"
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A solo in
which a woman devilishly tries to have her bubble wrap and pop
it too. |
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"On
the Tip of My Tongue"
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A trio for two men and one woman, all on point and clenching
harmonicas between their teeth, playing them as they partner
each other in thythmically and musically dazzling choreography. |
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RESIDENCY
ACTIVITIES
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The
Bang Group offers residencies which can include the creation
of new work on student dancers, the development of new curricula
about career development, and composition technologies based
in science and rhythm. The Bang Group has done teaching/performing
residencies at Harvard Summer Dance Center, Summer Stages Dance
in Concord (Mass.) Pro Danza Italia Festival, Bard College,
The University of Maryland, Muhlenberg College, Ram Island Dance
Company, Corte Ospitale in Rubiera (Italy), Dansacademie Arnhem
(Netherlands) and many others. |
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