Seán Curran Company and Third Coast Percussion
From his roots in Irish step dance to a four-year run as an original member of STOMP, Seán Curran comes alive to the beat of a drum. In celebration of their 20th anniversary, the choreographer and his company collaborate with Grammy Award-winning, Chicago-based ensemble Third Coast Percussion for a landmark evening of new and classic work inspired by the primordial nature of percussion.
First, they reimagine the hallmark 2000 piece Abstract Concrete, a spirited study of pairing and partnership set to a loose, kinetic rhythm. Then, Curran himself performs as part of a quartet in the tour-de-force body percussion work Quadrabox Redux. Finally, the company presents the New York premiere of Everywhere All the Time, set to celebrated composer Donnacha Dennehy’s Surface Tension, a “magnificently energetic” (The New York Times) piece inspired by the Irish bodhran drum, with set design by the late landscape architect Diana Balmori.
Abstract Concrete
Music by Third Coast Percussion and David Skidmore
Costume design by Liz Prince
Everywhere All the Time
Music by Donnacha Dennehy
Costume design by Liliana Casabal
Choreography and direction by Seán Curran
Set design by Diana Balmori
Lighting design by Robert Wierzel
Visual design by Mark Randall
Commissioned by BAM and the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center
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