KATE CORBY & DANCERS

DEUX

"Deux, performed by Anna Normann and Michelle Scurlock, begins with overt aggression, then turns swiftly into abstraction and emotional isolation. At first the dancers are like boys on a playground, fired by hostility but continuously, clumsily engaged. Shoving, kicking, and hitting, they chase each other back and forth across the space, driven by the action/reaction rules of aggression and revenge. When they suddenly come face-to-face center stage, one woman makes what might be a conciliatory gesture, grabbing the other’s forearm, but then they explode apart. From that point each is sealed off in her own little world, and though they traverse the same diagonal as before across the space, they do it slowly, dreamily, at a great emotional if not physical distance, without affect, in disparate abstract moves oddly in synch. Is this the bloodless, codified aggression of political policy?" - Laura Molzahn,SeeChicagoDance.com

BIO

Kate Corby & Dancers (KC&D), a contemporary dance organization based in Chicago and Madison, WI. Committed to producing innovative dance theater works that push the aesthetic boundaries of concert dance, the company works regionally, nationally and internationally. Their recent U.S. projects include: The A.W.A.R.D. Show! 2010: Chicago at the Dance Center of Columbia College, the World Dance Alliance Global Dance Eventat Dance Theater Workshop in New York, the Wave Rising Series in Brooklyn produced by White Wave Dance Company, and their Chicago season, Catch, at Links Hall in May of 2011, which was a ‘Critics’ Pick’ in Time Out Chicag0. Artistic Director Kate Corby has shown her work extensively in the U.S. and internationally in Canada, Mexico, Taiwan, and Hungary, where she studied and taught as a Fulbright fellow. She was recently featured in Dance Magazine’s April 2011 issue in the article “Taking Off” highlighting six emerging choreographers, and her work has been called "ingenious" by the Chicago Reader. Ms. Corby has served on the faculties of Beloit College, Columbia College Chicago, and the Pedagogy Department of the Hungarian Dance Academy. She joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison Dance Department as an assistant professor in 2008. Please visit: http://www.katecorby.com

QUANDO E ONDE:

Domingo, 3 de julho de 2011 / 19:00h

RAMPA, Lugar de Criação

Rua Sa Ferreira, 202 – Copacabana