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PERIDANCE CONTEMPORARY DANCE COMPANY RECEIVED WONDERFUL PRAISES FROM THE PRESS!

HERE ARE SOME QUOTES AND LINKS:

Igal Perry's Conflicted Terrain is "a beautiful metaphor for how deeply and intimately a dancer or a choreographer can become with a piece of music and the performance of it — as if there’s no real demarcation where the music ends and the dance begins."
- Karen Shapiro, WetPaint Journal

Enzo Celli's I'm Here is "a spoken narrative, at once poetic and gripping, (which) tells of the 'three deaths' experienced in the concentration camps. The cumulative effect of words and movement is fascinating and the work resonates deeply."
- Oberon's Grove

Dance Magazine contributor Charmaine Warren writes of Ohad Naharin's "Mabul" (an excerpted duet) "This perfectly timed duet meets each dancer where they are and shows their individual techniques in performing—ahh, but this is what Naharin does best, molds the work to each dancer."

 

Photos: rehearsals with Dwight Rhoden and Sidra Bell (by Meghan Rose Murphy)

Helen Pickett's Rave Reviews!

Peridance would like to thank Helen Pickett who recently conducted a successful workshop in Forsythe-based Improvisation.

Helen performed with William Forsythe's Ballet Frankfurt for over a decade, becoming a principal in 1991. Currently, she teaches Forsythe-based improvisation throughout the United States and Europe and choreographs works for many of America's leading ballet companies, such as Boston Ballet, Washington Ballet, Louisville Ballet, and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.

We also congratulate Helen on the outstanding reviews she received for her piece Tsukiyo which the Boston Ballet premiered in October.

Here's what the critics had to say:

"Pickett’s language is profound, fluid and intimate." -Keith Powers, Boston Herald

"The beautiful choreography was exquisitely performed and created a powerful piece that stayed with the audience long after the curtain closed." -Shannon Brown, The Simmons Voice

"Helen Pickett’s world premiere, 'Tsukiyo,' with music by Arvo Part, [is] one of the most distinctive works to now join the troupe’s repertory." -Iris Fanger, Patriot Ledger

Thanks again, Helen and congrats!