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SUMMARY:Beth Soll & Company:  Four Dancers\, One Choreographer and One Musician
DESCRIPTION:An informal showing of two repertory works and four premieres\nwith discussion led by Beth Soll \nSunday\, February 18th \, 2024 at 3 pm\nAt the Martha Graham Studio Theater\nIn Westbeth at 55 Bethune Street\, NYC\nSuggested Donation $10\nPresented by Dance Projects\, Inc.\nPhone: 212-927-0476 \nAbby Dias \nBeth Soll NY Choreographer and Artistic Director of Beth Soll & Company will\npresent “Four Dancers\, One Choreographer\, and One Musician” in a showing of two repertory works and four new dances. \nSoll\, whose work is often described as enigmatic and uncategorizable\, will give the audience some insight into her creative process with a discussion of the sources for the works listed below. Questions from the audience will be\nwelcome. \nDANCERS: Janet Aisawa\, Abigail Dias\, Lindsey Miller\, and Beth Soll.\nMUSICIAN/COMPOSER: Kathryn Woodard. \nInformation about Beth Soll & Company:bethsollandcompany.org\nhttps://www.facebook.com/BethSollandCompany. \nTHE FULL PROGRAM: \nBeth Soll in “Zerkolo” Photo: Barry Hetherington Folk Dance: A Restless Fugue. (2022) Duet for Abby Dias & Lindsey Miller. This work was\ninspired by traditional folk dances and embroidery patterns from Eastern Europe. The dancers move\nfrom upstage to downstage with detailed\, ‘embroidery paths.’ Much of the dance is performed as a\nfugue\, but as it develops\, the dancers abandon the fugal structure and dance together or in\nopposition\, which both enriches and undermines the conventions of folk dance and evokes a sense\nof the passionate emotions and suggestions of conflict that are often implicit in traditional dances.\nImprovised music for this work will be performed by noted musician/composer Kathryn Woodard. \nArdent Things (2023). Solo for Beth Soll. Now in her eighties\, Soll has observed that the challenge\nand richness of experience do not fade with age\, but\, in fact\, as time passes\, they achieve a kind of\nglowing intensity that has both positive and negative implications. The dance is also inspired by the\nmany poems that contain the word ‘ardent’ and the phrases ‘ardent things’ that reflect the\nreceptivity of the artistic sensibility to the vibrancy of life. Music by Eka Chabashvili. \nBeth Soll “Flight” Photo: Laszlo Toth Four Conversations (premiere) Duets for Janet Aisawa and Abby Dias. Several months ago\, Soll\nwatched videos of many of the dances she had created almost 50 years ago. With no clear goal and\nworking intuitively\, she found herself creating four very different conversations from the\nvocabulary and moods of these old works: \n-Quiet Negotiation is based on Soll’s observation of her Russian grandfather\, who lost a leg to\ntuberculosis of the bone\, working in his garden and negotiating the awkwardness of his heavy\nwooden leg. The resultant\, purely formal dance reveals a tranquil interaction between the dancers. \n-Jittery Chit-Chat was inspired by the energetic\, restless\, free-form interchanges carried on by\nkids and teenagers. \n– Secrets is shaped by Soll’s 1979 work: Conversations in a Foreign Language\, in which she\ncreated a sense of the sublime intimacy of quiet personal conversations that happen in a foreign\ncontext where meanings are often suffused with a sense of the mysterious and magical. \n-Runaway Interplay. A fast\, furious\, athletic dance that reveals an absurd\, sometimes awkward\nconnection between the dancers. Music by Eka Chabashvili. \nBeth Soll “Neonate” Beth Soll. Since the beginning of her career\, Soll has been recognized as a choreographer of\nenigmatic and powerfully expressive dances. \nEarly on\, she studied in Ithaca\, NY with Romanian modern dancers Iris Barbura and Vergiu Cornea and later attended the Kurt Jooss School and the Harald Kreutzberg School in Europe. Since graduating in Dance from the University of Wisconsin\, she has choreographed more than 150 dances and has also established an impressive reputation as a\nsoloist. She has held faculty positions at Boston University\, MIT\, where she directed the Dance\nProgram for 20 years\, the Harvard Summer Dance Center\, and UC Santa Barbara; she has also taught\nas an adjunct at numerous Boston and New York colleges\, including Hofstra University\, the New\nSchool\, and Manhattanville College. Before forming Beth Soll & Company in 1977\, she performed\nprofessionally in Madison\, Wisconsin\, and in Boston with the Ina Hahn Dance Company\, Dance\nCollective\, and the Harvard Summer Dance Company. In addition to major Boston and New York\nseasons\, her company has participated in numerous residencies and performance engagements at\nAmerican universities and performance venues\, including a 3-week residency at Jacob’s Pillow. As a\nsoloist\, she has performed and taught in Canada\, France\, Germany\, Hong Kong\, Hungary\, Romania\, \nand Russia. Her work has been generously supported by grants and prizes from corporations and\nfederal and state agencies. Her book\, Will Modern Dance Survive? Lessons to be Learned from the\nPioneers and Unsung Visionaries of Modern Dance\, was published in 2002.\nReview quotes:\n“. . . there is an understated virtuosity in the movement\, and it was this that held my attention\nthroughout this short but extraordinarily rich concert.” David\nVaughan\, Dance Magazine.\n“Soll works like a collector – showing us in varying lights the odd and/or beautiful discoveries\, the\neveryday objects treasured for their private significance.” Deborah Jowitt\, The Village\nVoice.\n“[Soll] stood still and just saw\, her focus channeling distances so apocalyptic or visionary that we\ntrembled as they appeared within the lens of this beautiful dance.”\nFiona Dolenga\, Culture Vulture. \n“Soll is something of an alchemist: she takes the dross of everyday life and\nturns it into the equivalent of spun gold.”\n                                                       Thea Singer\, The Boston Phoenix.
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LOCATION:Martha Graham Studio Theater at Westbeth
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