2nd Best Dance Company presents RED
Wed May 15, 2024 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
First Street Studio, 78702
2nd Best Dance Company presents RED
Wed May 15, 2024 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
First Street Studio, 78702
Description
2nd Best Dance Company presents RED
FIRST STREET STUDIO | 701 Tillery St. Austin, Texas 78702
Doors 7:15, show 7:30
This evening-length work walks the fuzzy, shag-carpet line between dance performance and narrative play, leaning into both text and movement to tell an abstracted version of a well known fictional story of survival: Little Red Riding Hood. By cycling through distinct characters, either true to the original story or entirely new, 2nd Best Dance Company will explore how we confront the many-faced “big bads” that lurk on our personal wooded paths. In RED (choreographed, written, and directed by Hannah Garner), four performers brave the unknown by way of spectacle, sentimentality, glamour, mortality, and answering the phone. Review here!
Created as 2019 Artist in Residence at Triskelion Arts.
Written, directed, choreographed by Hannah Garner
Dancers: Courtney Barth, Hannah Garner, Will Noling, Ryan Yamauchi
Costume, set, prop: Ariel Noltimier- Strauss
Music: Offerte non encore exécutée, H. 522 by Musica Antiqua Köln & Reinhard Goebel, Le chevalier du guet (The Night Watch Officer) performed by André Claveau, Mathé Altéry, Christian Borel & Claire Vallin, O Waly, Waly performed by Chanticleer, I’m Sorry by Brenda Lee, Nocturne Op.9 No.2 In e Flat Major composed by Frederic Chopin and performed by Brigitte Engerer, Parlez-moi d'amour by Lucienne Boyer, Messe a 3 voix (Panis angelicus) composed by César Franck and performed by Debrecen Kodaly Choir, Dezso Karasszon, and Salamon Kamp
Photo credit: Ingrid Holmquist
Photo description: Four people, apparently naked, look out in different directions covered by red feather fans.
Location
First Street Studio, 78702