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Season 2008 return
Jeanne Ruddy Dance 2008 Concert Season will offer two major works. One, Breathless, choreographed by Jeanne Ruddy, Re-imagined Premiere with new score by Ellen Fishman-Johnson.
And Quasi Normal, a new work by guest artist, Susanne Linke, winner of the German Dance Award 2007. View Images of Susanne working with Jeanne Ruddy dancers.
video - Susanne at the German Society of PA with Jeanne Ruddy
Dates/Time
Thurs, April 10, 2008 - 7:30 - Opening Night - special ticketed event with post-performance Gala Party.
Friday April 11, 2008 - 8:00 pm - Post-Performance Conversation
Saturday April 12, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Sunday Matinee, April 13, 2008 - 2:00 pm
Thurs, April 17, 2008 - 8:00 pm
Friday April 18, 2008 - 8:00pm
Saturday Matinee, April 19, 2008 - 2:00 pm
Saturday April 19, 2008 - 8:00 pmFri, April 11, 2008 Post Performance Conversation will be moderated by Brenda Dixon Gottschild with Jeanne Ruddy, Susanne Linke, and composer, Ellen Fishman-Johnson
Location:
The Performance Garage
1515 Brandywine St.
Philadelphia, PA.19130
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Choreographed by Jeanne Ruddy.
Re-imagined Premiere with new score by Ellen Fishman-Johnson• In 1925, Theodore Dreiser published a novel centered around the drowning of an unmarried pregnant woman by the unborn child's father, who believed life offered him better prospects.
• In 1996, a young unmarried Delaware woman was murdered and her body entombed on the ocean floor by her powerful, politically connected lover, who refused to permit her to end their affair.
• In 1997, a Philadelphia man drugged and strangled his wife and mother of his young daughter and placed her body in the bathtub, in order to collect insurance proceeds and continue to pursue a professional stripper.
• In 2002, a Californian fertilizer salesman murdered his pregnant wife and set her adrift in the San Francisco Bay, culminating a pattern of infidelity.
Breathless is informed and inspired by these stories. Their stories move from the happy and hopeful beginnings that mark many relationships that fail, sometimes with tragic consequences.Spanning many months, the scenes include a pastoral lakeside, room interiors, an insurance company office and a stripper bar.
Quasi Normal by Guest Artist, Susanne LinkeQuasi Normal is composed of three sections, all informed by the idea that the past contains the building blocks for future works.
The movement vocabulary in the first section is inspired by positions of the body in the Mary Wigman work, Niobe, a kind of mourning-dance.
In the second section, improvisations were extrapolated from the choreographic sketches of Dore Hoyer, a dancer and follower of the Wigman branch of German expressionist dance, or Ausdruckstanz.
In the final section, movement impulses were inspired by the play between opposing forces: yin/yang, permanence /fleetingness, positive/negative.
Jeanne Ruddy Dance's Eighth Performance Season was made possible, in part, by a grant from Dance Advance, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by The PEW Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts.
