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Black and white photo of 3 dancers. One stands in the back with a prop, the other two are leaping in the air. They are wearing white ensembles.

Repertory

Metallics

COMPANIES

CHOREOGRAPHER

COMPANY PREMIERE

Hunter College Playhouse, 1968 

WORLD PREMIERE

92nd Street YMHA, 1964 

MUSIC

Henk Badings, Henry Cowell 

DÉCOR & COSTUMES

Paul Sanasardo 

LIGHTING

Chenault Spence 

Metallics, choreographed by Paul Sanasardo with music by Henry Cowell and Henk Badings, is a trio between one woman dressed in black and a male-female couple dressed in white. A set of hanging metal tubes separates the dancers, who dance in front of, behind, and through the set. Through a dramatic juxtaposition between the couple and the solo, Sanasardo explores alienation and conflict between two worlds or emotional time zones. Metallics originally premiered at the YMHA in 1964 and became a part of the Company’s repertory in 1968.  

Two dancers. One is on the floor holding a long stick. The other is pulling the first dancers by the stick.

Dudley Williams and Sara Yarborough in Paul Sanasardo’s Metallics Photo by Tom Stanton

Black and white photo of two dancers wearing white. The one in front is looking back at the second. They are both leaping in the air.

Sylvia Waters and Dudley Williams in Paul Sanasardo’s Metallics Photo by Fred Fehl

Hero Credit: Photo by Fred Fehl