STEELEDANCE 20TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON

Featuring:
Devastating Beauty (world premiere)
Music mixed by: DJ Heinz
Costumes by: Nadia Tarr
Lighting: Brant Murray
Performed by: Zoë Blake, Hollis Bartlett, Jake Bone, Carolyn Cryer, Chris Coates, Meredith Fages, Marc Mann, Amber Morgan, Donnell Oakley, Tamora Petitt-Hendry, Yarden Raz, Jordan Risdon, Alex Dean Speedie, Elizabeth Steele, Oliver Steele, Teri Lee Steele, Natalie Trogdon, Michael Wright, and Leslie Ziff.

May 2*, 9, 10 at the Salvatore Capezio Theater (126 E. 13th Street, between 3rd and 4th Avenue)
*opening night/Gala reception. Tickets available: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/1425933

Steeledance’s Devastating Beauty explores themes on human relationships and how people and society relate to and interpret the concept of beauty. This work takes on new challenges for the Steeles as they develop the role of fabric in the work. The fabric layers the vision with a unique tactile component from exorbitant costumes built onto the dancers onstage, to flowing large pieces used to create separate spaces. In this work, the Steele’s liken fabric to the skin of one as they age--the perceptions of beauty, the acceptance or defiance of age and the changes it brings. Teri and Oliver explore what it means to maintain and refine beauty in movement as one matures. They play with and discover the idea of forcing oneself into an image not genuine but rather what others want to see or will accept.  

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