Same Planet Different World

The company makes its Dance Center debut with a repertory program.

Artistic Director Joanna Rosenthal will contribute Grey Noise, a work inspired by film noir of the 1940s and ’50s, which focuses on the complexity of relationships, the need for self-preservation and the effect of violence and aggression. Minnesota choreographer and Black Label Movement Artistic Director Carl Flink will create a new work on SPDW entitled HIT, which asks SPDW dancers to embrace singular events, such as athletes and fans at a stadium gridiron or around a boxing ring, yet without the goal of victory over an opponent. Collision is the goal itself; HIT allows no middle ground, illusions or deceptions; the collisions are real and the impact felt and heard. To Have and To Hold choreographed by Joanie Smith and Daniel Shapiro (SPDW Dance Premiere 2008) takes the audience on a journey of life’s fragility; the work evokes feelings of memory, love and loss.