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Volume CXXXIII, Number 10 |
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Susan Marshall Dance Company
New York's acclaimed dance troupe Susan Marshall & Co. will perform their newly mounted show "One and Only You" tonight in Pickard Theater.
The world premiere of "One and Only You" was recently given at the Byham Theater in Pittsburgh under the auspices of the Pittsburgh Dance Council. Bowdoin is the company's second stop on an eleven-city tour.
Artistic director/choreographer Susan Marshall creates works that tell a story and celebrate movement. Her highly athletic and technically demanding dances fuse ballet, modern, and post-modern release styles with everyday actions, transforming simple human gestures into rich dance expressions.
The story of "One and Only You" revolves around a writer stuck in a professional rut and a troubled marriage. The dance seesaws back and forth between the writer's life and the fictional world of a detective novel he is writing. As the dance evolves, the lives of the writer and his wife blur with the identities of the book's characters.
The show blends virtuosic dance, cinematic music, theater and literature.
Spoken language is incorporated into the dances, with the words of the
text supporting the frame for the dance. The text was written by novelist
and playwright Christopher Renino, Marshall's husband. The film-noirish
music was composed by Danny Blume and Chris Kelly of the electronic duo
Liminal.
Marshall founded Susan Marshall & Company in 1983. Her productions
include Spectators at an Event , The Most Dangerous Room in the House,
and The Descent Beckons. She recently collaborated with composer Philip
Glass, who called her "the next generation after [Twyla] Tharp,"
on Les Enfants Terrible and his String Quartets Nos. 4 and 5.
She is the recipient of a 2000 MacArthur Fellowship, and has received two New York Dance and Performance Bessie Awards and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. She is also the recipient of an American Choreographer Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Marshall studied at the Julliard School.
The performance is sponsored by the Bowdoin College Campus Activities
Board and the Department of Theater and Dance and funded in part by the
National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with
lead funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation. Additional funding was provided by The Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, Phillip Morris Companies Inc., Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts, and the British Council.
"One and Only You" will be performed at 8:00 p.m., Friday, November
16, at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus. Admission is $15
for the public, $12 for members of the Association of Bowdoin Friends,
and $5 with a Bowdoin ID. Tickets are available at the David Saul Smith
Union information desk, 725-3775.
-Office of Communications