Concert
Season Archives - 2000 return
The Wilma Theater
June 21, 2000 - 7:30
June 22, 23, 24, 2000- 8:00
June 25, 2000- 3:00
From Pent-Up, Aching Rivers (1998)
Choreography: Donlin Foreman
Narration: Claire Bloom
Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff (Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.4)
Costume: Willa Kim
Lighting: Jack Mehler
Dancers: Terese Capucilli, Donlin ForemanSignificant Soil (2000)
Choreography: Jeanne Ruddy
Music: Violin Concerto by Philip Glass
(© 1987, used by permission of Donvagen Music Publishers. Inc. )
Costume: Jeffrey Wirsing
Set Design: John Stephen Hoey
Lighting: John Stephen Hoey
Dancer: Jeanne RuddyVoices and Echoes (1999)
Choreographer: Igal Perry
original score:John Mackey
Costume: Jeffrey Wirsing
Lighting: Nanette Hudson Joyce
Dancers: Gwendolyn Bye, Karen Carson, Leslie Carothers, Christine TaylorNo Fear of Flying - First Leg (2000) a work in progress
Choreography: Mark Dendy
Music: Nancy Sinatra, (These Boots Are Made for Walking)
Peggy Lee, (Is That All There Is ) and Australian DIDJERADOO
Costume: Charlotte Cloe Fox
Lighting: John Stephen Hoey
Dancers: Karen Carson, Jeanne Ruddy, Christine Taylor
Reviews 2000 Theater Season
"Jeanne Ruddy's premier solo framed brilliant and disturbing moments.
Ruddy's lacerating movements, expressing an inner struggle, recede into
soft torso
decresendos that brought to mind the fragility, grandeur and redemptive
strength of the human body."
"
Ruddy is a breast cancer survivor and the piece is clearly her prayer of
thankfulness and a message of triumph and hope for other women."
"Igal Perry's movement meditation of feminine power, Voices
and Echoes,
set to an original score by John Mackey, brought forth this company's emerging
strengths... Gwendolyn Bye, Karen Carlson, Leslie
Carothers (who just retired
from the Pennsylvania Ballet, where she was principal dancer), and Christine
Taylor seemed to flow out from the instruments of the stirring live accompaniment
by a quartet from the Curtis Institute of Music. The dancers responding
to the richness of the cello, almost like the notes were bowing their torsos."
"The highlight of Mark
Dendy's comic soufflé No Fear of Flying was
the three dancers Carlson, Ruddy and Taylor), dressed in miniskirts, '70's
wigs and white boots, amusingly acting out Nancy Sinatra's These Boots
are Made for Walking and Peggy Lee's Is that All There Is? and Fever."
"As stewardesses, Carlson, Ruddy and Taylor boldly
took the stage in Barbie-doll wigs capped by navy blue pillboxes and knee-high
white vinyl boots. They
gave semaphoric pre takeoff instructions with an honesty no real flight
attendant would dare use."
"JRD promises to be a fixture on the Philadelphia dance scene."
