Peridance Contemporary Dance Company Goes to Italy and Israel

Artistic Director Igal Perry | Executive Director Yarden Ronen-van Heerden

Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (PCDC), under the Artistic Direction of Igal Perry together with Executive Director Yarden Ronen, is excited to continue its nearly three decade-long dedication to creating and performing powerful dance that inspires audiences nationally and internationally. This summer, PCDC will captivate audiences in Italy and Israel with a multi-city tour of "Infinity" and other works July 13-25, 2013.

International Tour Repertory

Inspired by the striking images of rural landscapes, frequent in Salvador Dali’s paintings, Igal Perry’s new creation “Infinity” is set to the famous Adagio movement of Beethoven’s “Sonata Hammerklavier”. The work, which depicts the delicate vulnerability of the human image against a background of vast, open spaces, derives its style and timbre from the music’s sustained and often haunting passages.

Altered color balance Dali painting; PCDC performing Perry's "Infinity"

Excerpts from Perry's beautiful “Twilight” are classical in style, where both partnering and movement sequences venture into a realm of deep, expansive movement, ranging in energy from soft and sustained to unexpected, sharp and fast paced sequences.

In addition to the latest repertory and repertory favorites by Igal Perry, the Company will perform works by Ohad Naharin and New-York-based choreographers Dwight Rhoden and Sidra Bell. PCDC’s moving excerpted duet by the Batsheva Dance Company Artistic Director Ohad Naharin is from the work “Mabul” (1992) and a gift to Peridance in memory of Mari Kajiwara.

"Mabul" duet

Complexions Contemporary Ballet choreographer and co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden’s new piece for the Company embodies his unique and dynamic style. This new work, "Evermore," reflects Rhoden and Igal Perry’s long-standing collaboration which has included an exchange of creations on both companies.

Scene from "Evermore"

Follow PCDC's International Tour, or see the Company for yourself!

Save the date for the Company's Workshop and Audition August 26-30th.

The Reviews! PCDC in the news

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)

Rehearsals with Dwight Rhoden and Sidra Bell

Things are absolutely heating up here at Peridance Contemporary Dance Company. The company is working hard. Really hard. It's rehearsals day in and day out. And they look amazing. Like one whole broken into 15 creative and expressive pieces. Dwight is working them hard, trying to get the choreography mastered and cleaned. Sidra's piece is slowly forming into a sumptuous and bold dance. The Season can't come soon enough!

- photos by Meghan Rose Murphy