Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Matthew Rushing, Clifton Brown, and Dwana Adiaha Smallwood in Karole Armitage’s Gamelan Gardens Photo by Paul Kolnik
Repertory
Gamelan Gardens
COMPANIES
CHOREOGRAPHER
WORLD PREMIERE
New York City Center, 2006
MUSIC
Lou Harrison (“Double Concerto for Violin, Cello with Javanese Gamelan”)
COSTUMES
Peter Speliopoulos
LIGHTING
Clifton Taylor
RUN TIME
24 Minutes
Juxtaposing elegance and rawness, lyricism and geometry, Karole Armitage crafts dances that move like a blaze of consciousness, encouraging viewers to contemplate the mystery of their own lives. Gamelan Gardens plays with notions of time and place, setting the dancers in an ephemeral realm where dreams and memories bloom and the private and social interact. Armitage seamlessly weaves her distinctive movement with music by Lou Harrison.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's Clifton Brown in Karole Armitage’s Gamelan Gardens Photo by Paul Kolnik
Asha Payne and Linda Celeste Sims in Karole Armitage’s Gamelan Photo by Paul Kolnik
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