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Lust,
Protest and Collaboration Two Pacific Northwest choreographers busy the dance scene in mid-November, their works ranging from the huge to the intensely personal, celebrating collaboration with both the living and the dead.
First, the Eugene Ballet Company presents Carmina Burana. Featuring a cast of hundreds, with terrific additions from the Oregon Mozart Players, the Eugene Concert Choir and the Oregon Festival Choirs, the piece is a dependable showstopper. You all know the drill: Based on a discovered manuscript of texts scrawled out by some pretty bawdy monks, Carmina, as this work came to be known, celebrates the, ahem, earthly pleasures. Oh Fortuna! Orff's music skates through the delicacies and decadence of human nature. Who knew Latin could be so hot? And slipped into the EBC lineup is a gem by Toni Pimble, Still Falls the Rain, a piece inspired by Pimble's encounter with the ideas of the Taliban in Afganistan and their impact on women and families. In this piece, she relates that impact to the 1940s Blitz in London via an Edith Sitwell poem. There's a rich history of protest in dance, from Joost's Green Table to Dorfman's current work on the Weathermen. And this seems an especially apropos time to present art that asks some questions about war, power and fear. 8 pm Friday, Nov. 10 & Saturday, Nov. 11; 2:30 pm Sunday, Nov. 12 at the Hult Center. Tickets are $20-$47. Then the UO Department of Dance presents an innovative evening of choreography by one of the Pacific Northwest's leading dance artists, Portland-based choreographer Mary Oslund. Throughout her career, Oslund has advanced the discipline of contemporary dance through the exploration and creation of new work with choreography marked by compelling and expressive physicality, movement invention, specialized group work and a unique approach to partnering. Among the performance highlights, particularly intriguing collaborations include SKY (Section 1), part of a larger work to be premiered in May 2007 at the Imago Theatre in Portland. SKY will feature an original music score by Portland-based composer John Berendzen. Nationally recognized visual artist Christine Bourdette will design and fabricate the physical set for SKY as part of the total visual environment for the work. The Object of Unreal (2006) is an excerpt intended to read as a series of amplified dioramas, heightened by the video work of David Bryant and the music of Katie Griesar. 8 pm Friday, Nov. 17 and Saturday, Nov. 18 at the Dougherty Dance Theatre, third floor Gerlinger Annex; 1484 University St. Tickets are $10 and $5 (students and seniors).
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