Lake Tahoe Dance Collective celebrates the 12th anniversary of its summer time competition from July 23-26. The 12th annual Lake Tahoe Dance Competition kicks off with a gap night time gala in Tahoe Metropolis, adopted by Tahoe Metropolis Neighborhood Evening, Kings Seashore Neighborhood Evening and concludes in a closing night time gala in Incline Village, that includes new commissions and performances from artists from New York Metropolis Ballet, Broadway, L.A. Dance Mission, Boston Ballet and extra!
The Lake Tahoe Dance Competition was began by longtime buddies Christin Hanna and Constantine Baecher in 2013, to current the best skilled dance and dance instruction in North Lake Tahoe. Because the competition enters its second decade, Lake Tahoe Dance continues to fee new works and current rarely-seen classics alongside fan favorites danced by the best caliber artists.
Among the performances featured on the 2024 Lake Tahoe Dance Competition embody an excerpt of Erick Hawkins Dance Firm’s Greek Desires Nymph Solo, first carried out on the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1973, with dancer Kristina Berger carrying the unique costume on mortgage from the Library of Congress; a brand new fee from Daniel Baudendistel and Valerie Madonia, carried out by Ethan Worth and Kate Loxtercamp; an excerpt of Susan Stroman’s Contact, carried out by Stephen Hanna and Ashley Fitzgerald; an excerpt of William Forsyth’s Blake Works, carried out by Lia Cirio and Paul Craig; Needle & Thread (working title), a brand new fee choreographed and carried out by Daphne Fernberger; and a brand new fee from Maxfield Haines and Dwight Rhoden that explores identification and selfhood.
Greek Desires Nymph Solo (excerpt), Erick Hawkins Dance Firm
Lake Tahoe Dance Competition first introduced this work in 2014, and filmed for archival functions throughout the 2020 Digital Dance Competition. “I don’t fairly know whether or not these dances are desires the previous Greeks had, or my desires of the Greeks. What a vivid type of society they have been that we nonetheless are enchanted by the best way the appeared on the world, and the best way they let poetic photos fountain forth. Even their language is the true place to begin for our western languages, music, the muses, the gymnasium, geography. These pretty individuals noticed that the bare physique, when it’s nurtured to be what it may be, is a poem and a mirrored image of the Divine!” — Eric Hawkins, choreographer
New Fee, Daniel Baudendistel and Valerie Medonia
Daniel Baudendistel and Valerie Medonia fashioned a lifelong friendship after dancing collectively for a few years on the Joffrey Ballet and on a number of visitor appearances. For the 2022 Lake Tahoe Dance Competition, they staged Gerald Arpino’s Gentle Rain, which they danced collectively, for Kate Loxtercamp and Ethan Worth. Desirous to work with the dancers once more on a co-creation, Valerie and Daniel are creating a brand new work “about exploring the area between music and motion and the way that mirrors wholesome relationships.”
Contact (excerpt), Susan Stroman
Did you Transfer? is from Half II of the musical Contact, winner of the 2000 Tony Award for Finest Musical. This part, set in circa 1954 in Queens, New York, takes place in an Italian restaurant, specializing in the empty marriage of a small-time gangster and his spouse.
Blake Works (excerpt), William Forsythe
Initially created by the Paris Opera Ballet, Blake Works I options the music of James Blake and premiered at Boston Ballet in March of 2019. As Roslyn Sulcas wrote within the New York Instances in 2019, “In Blake Works 1, set to seven songs by the English musician James Blake, he mined the wealthy technical heritage of the Paris Opera Ballet dancers, incorporating combos which were handed down by generations of academics, and emphasizing the overwhelmed footwork and refined arms which are French stylistic hallmarks.”
Needle & Thread (working title), Daphne Fernberger
A brand new fee and work in progress, Needle & Thread gives the viewers a singular and exploratory expertise. Because the character enters the area, the viewers finds themself in her psychological residence, or maybe it’s her lounge. With the repetitive nearly hypnotic music, the viewers discover themselves going from a deep inside world in direction of a state that’s extra open and current with the outer world.
New Fee, Maxfield Haynes and Dwight Rhoden
An explorative collaboration between Mayfield Hayens and Dwight Rhoden interrogating concepts of selfhood, identification, and the self that’s at odds with the world round it.
For extra info and ticketing, go to www.laketahoedancecollective.org/laketahoedancefestival.
