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length
70 minutes
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premiere
2009
Danspace Project
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music
Collage |
Tomorrow's Legs is made up of stories inspired by our memories, however true or false. Choreographer Tiffany Mills, experimental theater artist Peter Petralia, editing advisor Kay Cummings, and performers Jeffrey Duval, Luke Gutgsell, Whitney Tucker, and Petra van Noort, mix words and movement to excavate the past. We remember a father's surprising retort, a missing dog, River, and a forever-lost brother. These memories are triggered by a freshly squeezed orange, a tiny relic in the attic, and seven stitches above the eye. We intersect our collective past by traveling from Quito, Ecuador to Hamburg, Germany. On this escapade, Chris Hudacs and Naoko Nagata light and dress us. Vicious partnering, delicate gestures, straight-up story telling and a touch of foolery combine as we dig into the crevices of our mind. Memory, with all its richness and failings, will be our connective tissue.
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length
60 minutes
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performance
2007
Joyce SoHo
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music
Ikue Mori |
With choreography and direction by Tiffany Mills; video by award-winning Cuban-born filmmaker Ela Troyano; and music by internationally acclaimed Japanese composer Ikue Mori, these three diverse female artists blend their individual media and backgrounds, live and improvised in performance. Mills, Mori and Troyano will chart a journey of six dancers in three consecutive duets. Mills draws inspiration for these duets from the vast power and emotional resonance of a storm as it explodes upon the multitudes: accumulation, landfall, breach.
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length
20 minutes
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premiere
2006
Duke on 42nd Street
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music
John Zorn |
With music inspired by the films of Jean Luc-Godard, innocence and purity share the stage with corruption, contempt, and darker life experiences as this urban fairytale unfolds. Layering film, movement and music to achieve "dramatic color" (New York Times), Troyano, Mills and Zorn probe the complexities of human relationships, with a touch of whimsy in the Company's newest work. "Sad truths alternate with much needed comic relief." (OffOffOff.com)
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length
17 minutes |
premiere
2003
Guggenheim Museum commissioned by Works & Process |
music
John Zorn |
Live music drives Goetia, an exhilarating dance where the performers fly through the air in eight full-bodied visual poems. Jennifer Choi, a leading violinist of her generation, plays Zorn's idiosyncratic score. Back Stage describes Mills' feisty quartet as having "fast, intelligent interplay between sounds and choreography." |
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length
35 minutes |
premiere
2003
Guggenheim Museum commissioned by Works & Process |
music
John Zorn |
"Topsy-turvy bodies in a gothic universe" (New York Times) are revealed in a combustible world of shadows and split personalities. Elegy's terrain is a matrix of triggered emotions, where flowers and harrowing dreams co-exist. The New Yorker calls this multi-dimensional work "A technically demanding dance-theater piece, conjuring the violence of a Hitchcock denouement."
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