Classes
Choreographic Workshop: David Roussève
- 10AM
Mark Morris Dance Center
Single Tickets
In conjunction with Halfway to Dawn
Co-presented by BAM and Mark Morris Dance Group
For dancers at the intermediate-advanced and advanced levels
Choreographer David Roussève and members of his company REALITY lead a workshop mirroring the development process used to create Halfway to Dawn, based on the music of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. After a brief warm-up, dancers begin to grasp the work’s unique fusion of modern, postmodern, and jazz dance vocabularies and learn the dynamic, full-bodied phrase material. Workshop participants then manipulate that material to make their own dance and theatrical phrases, generating gestural and task-based movement based on the emotional currents of the music.
This engagement of David Rousséve/REALITY is made possible through the ArtsCONNECT program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
Los Angeles-based choreographer David Roussève presents a jubilant dance-theater celebration of jazz composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn.
David Roussève is a choreographer, writer, director, and filmmaker. He has created 13 evening-length works for David Roussève/REALITY, including Enough?, a commission for San Francisco’s RAWDance, which asks whether dance can address social movements like Black Lives Matter, and Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars, based on Athol Fugard’s Cry the Beloved Country. Roussève has been awarded a Bessie, a Cal Arts/Alpert Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and seven NEA fellowships, among others.
