Read reviews of THREE by Houston's Nancy Wozny and Atlanta's Lydia Warren.
Video excerpts of THREE. Please contact our Tour Coordinator for a full length video DVD.
About THREE:
From three different countries, with backgrounds in theatre, contact improvisation and site-specific installations, CORE Performance Company asked three renowned women choreographers to create new works with the company, the result of which is a triptych of engrossing and diverse contemporary dance simply called, THREE. The evening features new work by prominent Dutch choreographer, Beppie Blankert, Mexico City’s Alicia Sánchez, named one of the 100 most important Mexican creative artists of the 20th Century, and multidisciplinary artist Polly Motley, Vermont . The works these international artists have created are shorter works, each around 20 minutes, that can be performed together to form an evening, or alone in a festival or shared-bill setting.
Beppie Blankert: “Cumulus”
This rich movement piece set to String Quartet Numbers 1, 2 and 3 by Charles Ives and text of the poem "may i feel said he" by e.e. cummings, examines emotions in a physical form. Blankert asked the dancers of CORE Performance Company to bring picture books for visual inspiration to create a vocabulary of movement from which they refined and built the piece. As the title “Cumulus” suggests, the process was an accumulation of movement and emotional ideas, which are framed by the music of Ives. Blankert has choreographed for her own Beppie Blankert Danceconcerten for the past two decades, and has also done commissioned works in Wales, the UK and the US.
Alicia Sánchez: “Tus Pasos Encontrados” or “Your Found Steps”
“Your Found Steps” is a textural and character-driven ensemble work that seeks to engage audiences and has components available for performance in both a traditional theatre and in site-specific settings. The work adapts dramatic elements into its choreography, creating subtle emotive nuances combined with expressive physicality. Ms. Sánchez’s distinctive style she calls “theatre of movement” places her work in the vanguard of Latin American contemporary dance. “Theatre of movement” relies on the inherent dramatic effect of movement to convey emotion and express a sense of narrative in dance performance. Alicia Sánchez is founder of Alicia Sánchez y Compania: El Teatro de Movimiento, based in Mexico City. Sánchez was named one of the 100 most influential artists in Mexico during the 20th Century, and her company has performed in Europe, the US and across Mexico.
Polly Motley: "Charmed Romantics" Vermont based multi-media artist and performer, choreographed the third new work for THREE—“Charmed Romantics.” Polly describes it as precise, athletically virtuosic choreography. This new work will see duets transform into trios, two couples morph into simultaneous solos, trios, quartets and quintets, catalyzed by a roaming free radical. Roles are assigned and abandoned, acceleration and deceleration occur instantaneously, actions repeat, the center does not hold, exertion transfigures. Polly Motley is a dance maker and performer with over thirty years experience. Her collaborations have included work with dancers Steve Paxton, Dana Reitz, Simone Forti, and James Clouser. Her work has been presented in New York by the Asia Society, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research and others. Nationally, Polly’s work has been presented at festivals including Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and Colorado Dance Festival, and internationally including Indonesia, Tokyo, Paris, Frankfurt. She was recently commissioned to create a multimedia dance at The Kitchen with video artist Molly Davies.
