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Mozart Now and Then

April 12 @ 8:00 PM

AGNIESZKA LASKA DANCERS

    with

Oregon Symphony String Quartet
    Chien Tan - violin, treble violin
    Amy Schwartz-Moretti - violin
    Joel Belgique - viola
    Nancy Ives - cello


guest cellist: Justin Kagan

    and

Las Pléyades
Contemporary Dance from Mexico
    Luis Arreguín artistic director

Newmark Theatre, PCPA
1111 SW Broadway
Portland OR 97205
tel: 503.248.4335

           


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Justin Kagan, Alison Camp & Taryn Johnson
in "Bach Suite"

photo © Chris Leck


    MOZART NOW AND THEN is part of Portland's Month of Mozart. It is a program of entertaining and artistically substantive updates of period musical masterworks on the modern dance stage. Portland's Month of Mozart could find no better collaboration ‹ a smart, artistic, deeply sincere, homegrown, multi-layered music/dance interpretation of Mozart and his great inspirer, J.S. Bach. Sharing the stage are two of Portland's fastest-rising fine-arts performing ensembles: Agnieszka Laska Dancers and the Oregon Symphony String Quartet, joined by celebrated guest artists Luis Arreguin, choreographer/dancer and his company Pleyades Danza Contemporanea of Queretaro Mexico.



program

Suite No. 6 -- music of J.S. Bach (2005 - comissioned by Phil Hansen)

    choreography: Agnieszka Laska
    costumes: Ela Kwasek
    dancers: Alison Camp, Amber Davis, Taryn Johnson, Allegra Carlson, Heidi Nelson, Kristen Overbay

Guest cellist Justin Kagan takes center stage with ALD in Laska's choreography premiered and commissioned August 2005 by Phil Hansen, another virtuoso PDX cellist, recently departed to take the first cello chair with the Calgary Philharmonic.

Mozart Now and Then -- music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (premiere)

    Choreogrpahed by ALD members: Amber Davis, Taryn Johnson, Patricia Germann
    costumes: Taryn Johnson, Nick Cavanaugh
    dancers: Alison Camp, Amber Davis, Taryn Johnson, Heidi Nelson, Nick Cavanaugh, Kristen Overbay, Patricia Germann, Rayito Citlali Zamudio, Carlota Desiree, Karla Rabling, Luis Arreguín

Nancy Ives(cello), Chien Tan, (treble vln.), Joel Belgique (vla.) perform a suite of original obbligati. Each, appropriately costumed, is joined on stage by a different dancers, around one of 3 antique (ca. 1900) cylinder and disc gramophones, poised at intervals across the stage, sequentially playing music of Mozart (2-4 min. each). This quasi Mozart de/re-construction offers "vintage" gramophone renditions with unique obbligati. Dancers interact with both, in part, extemporaneously. PSU Music Professor of clarinet and ardent gramophone collector Stan Stanford, does the honors.

intermission

String Quartet in C major K. 465 No. 19 "Dissonant" -- music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (premiere)

    choreography: Agnieszka Laska & Luis Arreguín
    costumes: Ela Kwasek
    dancers: Alison Camp, Taryn Johnson, Heidi Nelson, Nick Cavanaugh, Rayito Citlali Zamudio, Carlota Desiree, Karla Rabling, Luis Arreguín

OSSQ, positioned on stage (not in the pit), performs in the premiere of new choreography by Agnieszka Laska in collaboration with Luis Arreguin (formerly with Ballet Nacional de Mexico). Agnieszka Laska Dancers will be joined on stage by members of Arreguin's company Pleyades Danza Contemporanea.



Agnieszka Laska Dancers: Alison Camp, Amber Davis, Taryn Johnson, Allegra Carlson, Heidi Nelson, Nick Cavanaugh, Kristen Overbay, Patricia Germann

Pleyades Danza Contemporanea: Rayito Citlali Zamudio, Carlota Desiree, Karla Rabling, Luis Arreguín

choreography: Agnieszka Laska, Luis Arreguín Garmendia (Mexico)

costumes: Ela Kwasek (Poland) view projects

This event is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council.

Las Pléyades' appearance is possible thanks to
Concejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes de Mexico
and
Instituto Queretano de la Cultura y las Artes

        

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