About the Dances

Colossal

by Kendra Portier

Choreographer Kendra Portier’s piece Colossal explores the energy, texture, color, and poeticism of geologic mechanizations - the majestic and cataclysmic. Arriving like a movement painting, the dancers move through vibrant swells of action that cascade, careen, and skitter into quicksilver rhythms and simmering pools of patience and care. Complex patterns unearthed like hills shaped by time, rivers, and wind, the performers are the architects, the painters, the creators of a world built together.

Luminance

by Falon Baltzell

The Wooden Floor’s Artistic Director Falon Baltzell’s piece Luminance examines the wonderment, oddity, and idiosyncrasies of pushing ourselves beyond our limits through courage and curiosity. Dancers explore moving through space and time to engineer a luminance world composed of structural landscapes and minimalistic movement design. The performers are exploring, trying to find out as much as they can about their new world, reminding the audience about the courage, curiosity, and glowing light within us all.

duneswept

by Christina Robson

Choreographer Christina Robson’s piece, duneswept, is a meditation on constructing patterns of movement and experiencing their impermanence. The ensemble swells through space, each fleeting moment thoughtfully imprinted into the swirling melodies of the Emerson String Quartet. Like elements shape landscape, movements erode, drift and flood, forming and reforming. This work explores a continuous cycle of gestural movements, their inherent dissolve and residual impressions. duneswept is inspired by Robson’s New England upbringing and the capricious coastal landscapes of Provincetown, Massachusetts.