SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS
Rite of Spring
Choreography by Shen Wei

ABOUT THIS PIECE
Rite of Spring, Shen Wei’s abstracted reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s score uses movement and scenic elements to emphasize the music’s structural form.

COMPANY BIO
Shen Wei Dance Arts was founded in 2000 by Shen Wei, who is widely recognized for his defining vision of an intercultural and interdisciplinary mode of movement-based performance. His work incorporates a range of media elements such as paint, sound, sculpture, theater and video. Shen Wei was a lead choreographer for the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremonies and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including an inaugural New York City Center Choreography Fellowship for the 2011-2012 season. Shen Wei Dance Arts has toured to 30 countries and 130 cities across the globe, performing at premier festivals and venues.

LDP - LABORATORY DANCE PROJECT
No Comment
Choreography by Chang Ho Shin

ABOUT THIS PIECE
No Comment was inspired by the video-only, no-commentary news format that characterized the Iraq War press coverage in Germany, and features explosive, rhythmic music by the Serbian world-music composer Goran Bregovic and the London-based group Transglobal Underground.

COMPANY BIO
LDP–Laboratory Dance Project, based in Seoul, South Korea, was founded in 2001 by graduates from the Korea National University of Arts’ Department of Dance in Seoul. LDP was the first dance conservatory in Korea and the first national university devoted to professional dance education with the support of the Korean government’s Ministry of Culture & Tourism. Its performances draw from breaking and other hip hop forms, martial arts and contact improvisation but put those raw energies in the service of smartly structured ensemble movement and striking visual concepts.

CIRCA
CIRCA (adapted for Fall for Dance)
Choreography by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Esemble

ABOUT THIS PIECE
CIRCA, created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa ensemble and adapted for Fall for Dance, features daredevil acrobatics and moving physical theater.

COMPANY BIO
Circa, from Brisbane, Australia, is a bold new contemporary circus. Its works are highly innovative, genre-bending pieces that stretch the practice and perceptions of circus. Circa features a full-time ensemble, a concentrated administrative team and a dedicated circus studio. Circa’s touring program in 2011 reached more than 174,000 audiences locally, nationally and internationally.

MarÍa PagÉs CompaÑÍa
Deseo Y Conciencia (Desire & Conscience)
Choreography by María Pagés

ABOUT THIS PIECE
Deseo Y Conciencia (Desire & Conscience) (Live Music), a U.S. premiere choreographed by María Pagés, is a poetical dance inspired by Don Quixote and the poems of Neruda, Benedetti, Machado and Baudelaire.

COMPANY BIO
María Pagés Compañía, founded in 1990, has toured the most prestigious stages throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the United States. Pagés was born in Seville, Spain and is internationally renowned for her personal esthetic concept of the art of flamenco. She is a pioneer in conceiving flamenco as an art that is in constant evolution, modern and alive. Her works embrace cultural differences, and she believes that that artistic interaction improves understanding between human beings.