Dance Company Concert! HERE. now.

For Immediate Release

Contact: Christine Kiernan Fisher

Phone: 919-560-3926, ext. 23235

Email: Christine.fisher@dpsnc.net

Durham School of the Arts

Dance Company

Presents

HERE. now.

DSA’s Dance Department enthusiastically invites you to join us for HERE. now.- an evening of contemporary dance presented by our Dance Company with special guests. Please plan to join us on May 17th and May 18th in Weaver Auditorium on DSA’s campus at 400 N. Duke St in Durham. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door. This year we are thrilled to be joined by guest artists, Melissa Pihos, Renay Aumiller Dances (RAD) and Todd Fisher. 

The company will perform Group Consciousness, choreographed by Melissa Pihos- artist-in-residence. This dynamic ensemble piece explores the idea of the group versus the individual and what behaviors take place within a group.

DSA Dance Company will premier their newest work, If Not Now, When? -an abstract exploration of the ideas surrounding Humanism, choreographed by Fisher. Also on the concert are two repertory works: Walls, which explores the idea of walls we build, break down, hide behind, and try to escape- literally and metaphorically and Off the Grid, the infamous “sock piece” which delighted audiences in the spring and returns for this final performance.

Stephanie Blackmon-Woodbeck and William Commander of RAD join us to perform an excerpt of a full-length performance entitled Pretty/Ugly. Join us for this sneak peek and be sure to see the hour-long performance, which will premiere at the Durham Arts Council's PSI Theater June 1st at 7:30pm and June 2nd at 3:30pm. This duet is part of a collection of solos, duets, and sextets that investigate aesthetics in beauty and the unfamiliar. 

Todd Fisher joins his wife, dance company director, Christine Kiernan Fisher to perform Somehow- a simple duet about life, love and marriage. Christine Fisher met her husband on the stage with John Gamble Dance Theater and takes this opportunity to explore their journey together through movement. This duet celebrates a decade of dancing together, exploring partnership through contact improvisation and revisits snippets of the past 10 years of life on stage and off.

Two pieces of student choreography will also be in the concert: Lose Yourself, choreographed and performed by Akinyemi Blackshear and Remember, choreographed and performed by Edie Sanders.