Dance Place's annual adjudicated showcase of new works by established and emerging choreographers from throughout the region will feature works ranging in styles from modern to classical Indian dance.
Opening the evening's program is Orit Sherman's Inside a Cell, an abstract observation of the diverse and active inner life of the cell. Cellular processes, as captured in movement on stage, range from well-orchestrated organic progression such as mitosis, to abrupt and unsynchronized disintegration of cellular moieties.
Inspired by Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Stephanie Yezek's Madwoman in the Attic, examines the passionate and fraught character of Rochester's wife, Bertha Mason, and asks if she is really mad or simply the victim of a man's faded desire.
Tiffany Haughn's Others explores the idea that no matter how convinced we are in our beliefs and principles, there is always another side to every story. Until we are willing to accept that other belief systems are valid, there will be no peace or progress but just more of the same - clashing and opposition.
Based on her experiences as a witness of the onset of dementia, Danah Bella explores the loneliness and disappointment caused by the cyclical process of losing a memory, regaining that memory, and then forgetting it once again, in the solo de_mentia.
Nkosinathi ‘Natty' Mncube presents Still Feel the Presence III, the conclusion of his journey in finding and remembering events and moments in the past, as well as travelling in the unknown world. Memories come at a price, be it nightmares or epiphanies. The question is, do we find comfort and solace in these memories or do they haunt and make us vulnerable and uncomfortable in our own lives?
The evening closes with DADADance, choreographed by Keira Hart-Mendoza of UpRooted Dance. UpRooted's work can best be described as a visual feast of color, shape, and design, that places emphasis on the presentation of dance. With the help of costume design, set design, and video, Hart-Mendoza often creates rich visual worlds in which her dances live.