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Kelley Donovan & Dancers present: Triadic Memories
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February 5, 2008
Contact: Kelley Donovan
kddcompany@yahoo.com
(781) 420-3893
Kelley Donovan & Dancers present:Triadic Memories
Saturday, March 15 at 8:00pm
Sunday, March 16 at 7:00pm
Julie Ince Thompson Theatre, The Dance Complex
536 Massachusetts Ave. Central Square
Cambridge, MA
$20 General Admission, $12 for Student/Seniors
Call (781) 420-3893 for information and reservations.
http://www.geocities.com/kdonovan02139
Kelley Donovan & Dancers will present the premiere of "Triadic Memories", an evening length work exploring transformation and memory. The work is set to excepts of Morton Feldman’s "Triadic Memories", performed by pianist Theodore Bale and will premiere at the Julie Ince Thompson Theater on March 15th at The Dance Complex in Cambridge.
Kelley Donovan & Dancers was recently cited as one of the Top 10 Dance Performances for 2007 by The Boston Globe. They create work that investigates the internal world transformation and expresses the intimate self through movement, ranging from soft fluidity to athletic physicality. Blended gestures intermingle to explore a definition of strength that includes vulnerability. A sequential use of the torso with abrupt energy changes and weight shifts explore the initiation of movement from the core and evolves into the creation of a serpentine movement vocabulary based on images of the snake as a metaphor for transformation. A non-linear series of images gather strength in the accumulation of details, gestures and exchanges of energy.
In Morton Feldman’s “Triadic Memories” chords are repeated three times, another, seven or eight times causing the listener to forget the reiterated chord and is a conscious attempt at formalizing a disorientation of memory. Chords are repeated without any discernible pattern. In this irregularity there is a suggestion that what we hear is functional and directional but we soon realize that this is an illusion. A similar development of a finite amount of movement material exists in the choreography.
Original phrases change into variations on variations creating a sense of impermanence of perception.
In the past year Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times wrote '' … Kelley Donovan’s “It’s All Forgotten Now” stood out from its first moments for its precise and subtle shifts in dynamics..the great pleasure was the way it used movement not merely to fill space but to create an organic narrative with its own inherent linearity.”
Recently Karen Campbell of the The Boston Globe wrote 'The choreographer … enters midway like the eye of the cyclone that has been generating movement all the while. She is like a double helix in motion, constantly flipping perspective. She seems to reach out and coil inward at the same time, her body twisting and spiraling, arms curving forward and back with quick shifts of dynamics.”
Kelley Donovan has performed work by Ann Carlson, Rozann Kraus, Amy Spencer, Richard Colton and Liz Lerman. Donovan teaches modern dance at Umass Boston and Green St. Studios in Cambridge. Kelley Donovan and Dancers, formed in 1997 creates dances about transformation and spirituality in venues around the Boston area, including; Tufts University, MIT, New England Conservatory, Mobius, Harvard, Choreographers Group, Salem State College and The Federal Reserve Bank in Boston and WAX, Movement Research, Joyce SoHo, The Merce Cunningham Studio and the 92nd St. Y in New York City.
Her work has received financial support from The Artist Foundation of Boston and a Space Grant from the 92nd St. Y in New York. Kelley studied choreography with Mark Morris and Bessie Schönberg and received a B.A. from Bradford College in 1989. Donovan received a “dance belt” for her creation of the dance action network list serve, which is a one-stop source of information for the Boston Dance Community and currently coordinates over 1000 dance artists in New England.
Theodore Bale (pianist) is dance critic and columnist at The Boston Herald. His writing on dance has appeared in many regional weekly newspapers around Massachusetts, and in Dance Magazine, Dance International, and Contact Quarterly. He received a B.A. from The Hartt School of Music, Theater and Dance in West Hartford, CT and a Master of Technical and Professional Writing from Northeastern University. He studied and performed with The Northern Connecticut Ballet and learned Humphrey/Weidman/Limon technique at the Hartford Conservatory, where he studied with Evan Williams. In Boston he studied contemporary dance with Ruth Birnberg, Cheri Opperman and Arawana Hayashi. His musical interests are focused on American piano composition since 1950.
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