ARMENIA

World Premiere

Music: Ten Armenian folk songs and dances by Vardapet Komitas

Choreography: Twyla Tharp

Twyla Tharp’s new duet features challenging ballet technique as well as her trademark humor and off-beat timing.  The Company is honored to have been selected as the first to perform this work by master choreographer Twyla Tharp.

STARSHADOWS

Company Premiere

Choreography: Michael Smuin

Music: Maurice Ravel 

The Company is pleased to honor the memory of Michael Smuin with its performances of Starshadows, a romantic adagio for three couples that is one of his most beautiful and graceful works.

VESPERS

Company Premiere

Choreography: David Grenke

Music: Tom Waits

Described by the New York Times as “a tour de force of choreographic ingenuity”, Vespers is a sensational, physically challenging duet by David Grenke, former principal dancer of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

ECHOES OF INNOCENCE

Choreography: Charles Anderson

Music: Ingram Marshall

Ingram Marshall’s haunting score is the inspiration for Charles Anderson’s intriguing and provocative look at the lost innocence of childhood. 

BOLÉRO

Choreography: Charles Anderson

Music: Maurice Ravel

Radiating strength and physicality, Charles Anderson’s interpretation of Ravel’s famous composition, choreographed for the full Company, returns for a second season after thrilling audiences in 2007.