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Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCEConcert Program
January 27, 2007 CHOREOGRAPHY: Ronald K. Brown THE COMPANY UPSIDE DOWN (1998) Premonition Upside Down is an excerpt from the evening length work Destiny. The full evening work was created in collaboration with Rokiya Kone of the Ivory Coast and her company Jeune Ballet d' Afrique Noire and premiered at Aaron Davis Hall in June 1998. The development and creation of Destiny received support from Africa Exchange, the Rockefeller Multi-Arts Projects and Production Fund, the Aaron Davis Hall Fund for New Work and Evidence/Circle of Friends PAUSE Walking Out the Dark (2002) A danced conversation between mother, father, sister, lover, friend. Walking Out the Dark was co-commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and Philip Morris Companies, Inc; the Bessie Schonberg/First Light commissioning program of New York's Dance Theater Workshop with funds from the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and the Greenwall Foundation with additional funds provided by Chase Manhattan Bank; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Aaron Davis Hall Fund for New Work, The University of Texas at Austin Topfer Endowment for the Performing Arts. Walking out the Dark was made possible, in part, by the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Philip Morris Companies Inc. INTERMISSION GRACE (1999) Originally premiered by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in 1999 God Coming Down (Come Sunday - Arrangement Duke Ellington - Sung By Jimmy McPhail) All programs are subject to change. |
