Baryshnikov Arts Center presents
RAMMED EARTH
by Tere O'Connor
September 24-28, 2008
7PM and 9PM
Baryshnikov Arts Center
Howard Gilman Performance Space
450 West 37th Street
Tickets: $20
To purchase tickets, phone Ticket Central Box Office at 212-279-4200 or visit www.ticketcentral.com.
For information about gala tickets for the September 24 performances, please call 212-633-0016.
About Rammed Earth:
Following its critically acclaimed run at The Chocolate Factory last year, Tere O'Connor brings Rammed Earth to BAC for 10 performances this fall. Inspired by contemporary architecture where concepts of adaptability and human interaction drive design, O'Connor has created a work that adapts to each new setting in which it is performed. The work challenges the perceived rigidity of built space, juxtaposing it with the fluidity of the human form. The evening-length work brings into evidence the shifting layers of architectural reference in dance. Audience members are incorporated into the expanding and contracting liquid space of the work as they are escorted into different viewing positions throughout the performance. Roslyn Sulcas of The New York Times writes, "Mr. O'Connor transmuted dry, rigorous, minimal movement into rhythmically complex, textured encounters among his four superb dancers to create a kind of poem of richness and emotional depth."
Rammed Earth is created by O'Connor in collaboration with his longtime artistic partners lighting designers Michael O'Connor and Brian MacDevitt and composer James Baker, and is performed by Hilary Clark, Heather Olson, Matthew Rogers and Christopher Williams.
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