Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men -
-Emily Dickinson-
DANSKERN 2dance2gether
1990 ZIGGURAT
1991 CYCLE & PIECES
1992 LOVELINES
1993 SUR PLACE
Premiered as separate programs
Toured in mixed combinations
'Strikingly clear dances...'
'Duets and solos of deep emotional charge...'
'2dance2gether penetrates into the core of dance...'
'Top class modern dance and choreography...'
A SEAT ON CLOUD NINE 1990
Choreography: Adriaan Kans
Music: Enrique Granados: Danzas Espanolas: Minueto, Oriental, for piano.
Two dance poems, one sparkling with bravado, the other with tender playfulness.
Celebrating my reborn bliss in the creative, focused work with my inspiring dance partner Maureen Krumeich.
Both equally dedicated to the work, supportive of each other's growth as mature dance artists.
Like drinking every day through parched lips from a rejuvenating fountain.
BEING (1969)
Choreography: Elizabeth Dalman
Music: Ian Cugley (1945 - 2010)
Staged by: Elizabeth Dalman
THIS TRAIN (1965)
Choreography: Elizabeth Dalman
Music: 3 songs by Peter, Paul and Mary:
Motherless Child, All My Trials, This Train
Staged by: Elizabeth Dalman
LITANY (1982)
Choreography: Adriaan Kans
Music: Béla Bartók: Suite opus 14 (sostenuto, allegro molto, sostenuto) for piano
On the wall in chalk is written: 'They want war'.
He who wrote it, has already fallen.
(Bertolt Brecht)
All wars are bankers' wars.
And for us deplorable useless eaters, it's devastation, misery, or cannon fodder glory.
ME, EGON 1990
Choreography: Adriaan Kans
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite nr.2 in d minor (prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, menuet, prelude) for violin
An evocation of the life and work of the Viennese painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918).
The struggle between eroticism and death lacerates the form in the compositions of Egon Schiele.
Lacerated the social order of his day.
Is it this fundamental theme that makes Schiele’s art seem so relevant today?
CLOUDS OF ALMOST EVENING 1990
Choreography: Adriaan Kans
Music: Piet Ketting: Interludium (from Preludium, Interludium e postludium per due pianoforti)
Sometimes violent, sometimes serene was our life’s motion.
Remembrance blends with desire.
Inevitably night swallows up our body.
And we write our dreams in the starry sky.
