Concert
Season Archives - 2003 return
The Wilam Theater
February 12, 2003 - 7:30
February 13, 14, 15, 2003 - 8:00
Feb 13 and 15th Program
Voices and Echoes (1999)
Choreography: Igal Perry
Original Score: john Mackey
Costume Design: Jeffrey Wirsing
Lighting Design: Peter J. Jakubowski
Dancers: Amanda Miller, Janet Pilla, Amanda Seidl, Christine Taylor
Musicians: Yi-Chun Chen (Cello), Solomya Ivakhiv (violin), Yconne Lam (violin), Sharon Wei (viola)Significant Soil (2000, 2003) premiere-Third Movement
Choreography: Jeanne Ruddy
Music: Philip Glass, Violin Concerto, Second & Third Movements
Costume design: Jeffrey Wirsing
Lighting design: Peter J. Jakubowski
Dancers: Jeanne Ruddy with Renee Robinson-Buzby, Janet Pilla, Amanda Seidl, Darla Stanley, Christine TaylorThe System (2002) Philadelphia Premiere
Choreography: Janet Lilly and Peter Sparling
Original Score: Frank Pahl
Visual Artist: Terry Rosenberg
Spoken Text: Charles Baxter
Costume Design: Alison Roberts
Lighting Design: Peter J. Jajubowski
Dancers: Jeanne Ruddy and Peter Sparling (Feb 12, 14 15)
Janet Pilla and Kip Martin (Feb 13)Suite Reel
Choreography: Jeanne Ruddy
Music: Live Barbershop Quartet, Soundchoice, Appalachian Bluegrass
Singers: Dean Crissy, Walter Evens, John L. Odhner, Jim Rohn
Costume Designer: Jeffrey Wirsing
Lighting Design: Peter J. Jakubowski
Soundtrack Design: Larry Sheridan
Viedo Projections: Primitive World Production
Dancers: Renee Robinson-Buzby, Mora-Amena Parker, Janet Pilla, Christine Taylor, Stephen Walsh
Feb 14 - Valentine's Day Program
Voices and Echoes (1999)
Enfold
Choreography: Zvi Gotheiner
Music: Sarah Leander
Costume design: Alison Roberts
Lighting design: Peter J. Jakubowski
Dancers: Jeanne Ruddy and Donald T. Lunsford, IIThe System (2002)
Suite Reel (2001)
Description:
Jeanne Ruddy Dance opened its third full-concert season with
four original works and two world-premieres at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia
with great success.
The 2003 season featured a 20-year partner reunion between Jeanne Ruddy and Peter Sparling, former dancers of the Martha Graham Dance Company in The System, a new work choreographed by Sparling and Janet Lilly. The concert also featured the premiere of the expanded Significant Soil, a piece Ruddy based on her experience as a breast cancer survivor with music by Philip Glass.
Guest Choreographer, Igal Perry, re-staged Voices and Echoes, a work made for the original four members of JRD in 1999, with a live string quartet from The Curtis Institute of Music playing an original score by John Mackey, Musical Director of The Parsons Company. In a special Valentine's Day performance, the company performed a romantic duet, Enfold, choreographed by Zvi Gotheiner, to the music of a '40s German cabaret singer.
Finally, in honor of the Degas show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Ruddy's company performed Chopin Nocturne inspired by Degas' images of dancers. The concert ended with Suite Reel, Ruddy's exploration of American themes of Barbershop and Bluegrass music expanded with additional video projections and a live Barbershop quartet onstage.
The Company also gave a special performance on Friday, February 14th at 11:00 a.m. to children of Laura Wheeler Waring Public School, The Masterman School and The William Penn Charter School!
