Concert
Season Archives - 2005 return
June 16, 17, and 18, 2005
Jeanne Ruddy Dance's 5th Anniversary Concert Season was presented at The Mandell Theater on Drexel University’s campus, 34th & Chestnut Streets, June 16 – 18, 2005. Featured were the world premiere of BREATHLESS -- a powerful new work by Jeanne Ruddy, and a restaging of two popular favorites from previous seasons – OUT OF THE MIST…ABOVE THE REAL, and SUITE REEL.
Powerful, haunting and disturbing, BREATHLESS was born out of Ruddy’s meditative exploration of the ominous, fearful qualities of water, and influenced by Theodore Dreiser’s classic masterwork, An American Tragedy. BREATHLESS explores the dark side of the American Dream that has become a harsh reality of contemporary life, and lays bare their doomed pursuit of love and success...
Ruddy’s collaboration with composer Jorge Cousineau, who created the original sound score, provided a new and challenging experience, as she choreographed in silence for the first time, prior to Cousineau shaping the sound to the dancers’ movement.
In a unique multi-media twist, the choreography placed the dancers in front of projections of ../images of water by noted photographer, Bob Emmott.
The production also heralded the introduction of new dancer Rick Callender, formerly with the Fort Worth Ballet.
In conjunction with the season opening, Jeanne Ruddy Dance partnered with Women’s Way, making the Friday, June 17 performance a benefit for their Domestic Abuse Agency.
We also celebrated our 5th Anniversary with a Benefit,
" The
Quiquennial Celebration"
on
March 11, 2005.
