Redcat Closes O'Connor's WROUGHT IRON FROG, 10/17

REDCAT is proud to present the West Coast premiere of Tere O'Connor Dance's Wrought Iron Fog. Presented as part of REDCAT's Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series, performances will be held at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater on Thursday, October 14, 2010 and run through Sunday, October 17, 2010.

Widely cited as one of America's most influential choreographic voices, Tere O'Connor is known as a master of composition and an evocative manipulator of gesture and theatricality. O'Connor's work has won him international acclaim and commissions for such important companies as Lyon Opera Ballet and the White Oak Dance Project. Of the premiere of Wrought Iron Fog at Dance Theater Workshop (New York, NY) November 2009, The New York Times raved "Go see this piece while you can... tremendously evocative in the way it allows subtle, poetic meaning to blossom."

O'Connor's richly layered choreographic structure for Wrought Iron Fog highlights unexpected shifts in rhythm and mood as it builds complex relationships with his five idiosyncratic performers. Through often-surprising, continuous dancing, they generate a dynamic network of disparate ideas, while at times revealing interior psychologies that remain ghosted beneath the surface of the dance. The result is a moving essay on the nature of human consciousness in the form of beautifully sculpted movement.

In a blog post on June 18, 2010, titled Unviable Structures, O'Connor wrote, "The coexistence of wrought iron and fog to some degree replicates the initial questions for this work: how is something in a state of finality affected by the ephemeral and the temporal? Although wrought iron and fog could easily coexist in the physical world, in this juxtaposition they are either oxymoronic or poetic or both. I am forcing these opposites next to each other, hoping the audience begins a process of negotiating the difference before the work begins."

Click here for a video excerpt of Wrought Iron Fog

Wrought Iron Fog makes its West Coast premiere at REDCAT on Thursday, October 14, 2010 and runs through Sunday, October 17, 2010. Curtain for performances on Thursday-Saturday is 8:30 pm with a Sunday performance at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $20-25 ($16-20 for students with current I.D.) and are available at redcat.org or by calling 213 237-2800. REDCAT is located at the corner of W. 2nd and Hope Streets, inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex (631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012).

Wrought Iron Fog features an original score by James Baker, lighting design by Michael O'Connor, and set design by Walter Dundervill and O'Connor. The work is performed by Hilary Clark, Daniel Clifton, Erin Gerken, Heather Olson and Matthew Rogers.

The performances at REDCAT are funded in part with generous support from the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts. NDP is supported by lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, with additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust.

REDCAT is a NPN Partner of the National Performance Network (NPN). This project is made possible in part by support from the NPN Performance Residency Program. Major contributors of NPN include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the MetLife Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information visit npnweb.org.

For high resolution and web resolution images, additional information, media and interview requests, please contact Diana Wyenn at 213 237-2873 or dwyenn@calarts.edu.

 

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