# RIOULT Dance NY at Zellerbach Playhouse, May 7, 2017

[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/performances/2016-17/dance/rioult-dance-ny-bach-dances.php) presents _Bach Dances_ featuring [RIOULT Dance NY](http://www.rioult.org/)  
[Zellerbach Playhouse](http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94305+USA&hl=en)  
7:00 PM, Sunday, May 7, 2017

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## Set One

[7:04 PM lights down, announcements, waiting]

### Views of the Fleeting World

_Views of the Fleeting World_ (2008); set to unidentified selections from J.S. Bach: _Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue)_, BWV 1080 (1746)

01. [7:08 PM] _Orchard_
02. [7:12 PM] _Gathering Storm_
03. [7:15 PM] _Wild Horses_
04. [7:19 PM] _Dusk_, featuring Corinna Lee Nicholson and Michael Spencer Phillips
05. [7:23 PM] _Summer Wind_, featuring Charis Haines and Jere Hunt
06. [7:28 PM] _Moonlight_, featuring Sara Elizabeth Seger and Brian Flynn
07. [7:33 PM] _Flowing River_  
[work ends 7:36 PM]

### City

_City_ (2010); set to J.S. Bach: Violin Sonata in G Major, BWV 1019 (1723), featuring Catherine Cooch, Corinna Lee Nicholson, Michael Spencer Phillips, and Sabatino A. Verlezza

01. [7:37 PM] _Allegro_
02. [7:41 PM] _Largo_
03. [7:44 PM] _Allegro_
04. [7:48 PM] _Adagio_
05. [7:52 PM] _Allegro_  
[set ends 7:56 PM]

## Set Two

[8:13 PM lights down]

### Polymorphous

_Polymorphous_ (2015); set to selected excerpts from J.S. Bach: excerpts from _Das wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-Tempered Clavier)_ (1722), featuring Brian Flynn, Charis Haines, Jere Hunt, and Sara Elizabeth Seger

01. [8:13 PM] (untitled)
02. [8:16 PM] (untitled)
03. [8:19 PM] (untitled)
04. [8:22 PM] (untitled)
05. [8:24 PM] (untitled)
06. [8:26 PM] (untitled)  
[work ends 8:28 PM]

### Celestial Tides

_Celestial Tides_ (2011) set to J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051 (1718)

01. [8:31 PM] _Allegro_
02. [8:39 PM] _Adagio, ma non tanto_, featuring Charis Haines, Jere Hunt, Sara Elizabeth Seger, and Michael Spencer Phillips
03. [8:46 PM] _Allegro_  
[set ends 8:52 PM; all off after a couple minutes for bows and applause]

## Performers

### the Company

* Chaney Briggs: apprentice dancer;
* Joseph Columbus: apprentice dancer;
* Catherine Cooch: dancer;
* Jake Deibert: dancer;
* Amanda Esposito: apprentice dancer;
* Brian Flynn: dancer;
* Charis Haines: dancer;
* Jere Hunt: dancer;
* Melanie Kimmel: dancer;
* Corinna Lee Nicholson: dancer;
* Michael Spencer Phillips: dancer;
* Sara Elizabeth Seger: dancer;
* Sabatino A. Verlezza: dancer.

### Production Credits

* Spencer Anderson: production manager;
* Brian Clifford Beasley: projection animation;
* Harry Feiner: scenic design;
* David Finley: lighting design;
* Amy Harrison: executive director;
* Joyce Herring: associate artistic director;
* [Pascal Rioult](http://www.rioult.org/): choreographer, artistic director;
* Karen Young: costume design.

## Notes

Tonight's dance show was quite interesting to watch, though I found the melange of influences to be a bit confusing. As the program was titled _Bach Dances_, I expected that the music would be all Bach, but a variety of natural and electronic ambient sounds were used as interstitial pieces: overall it was interesting enough, though I failed to grasp why movements of a classical piece should be interrupted by chirping crickets, or a raging thunderstorm, or blips and bleeps of a synthesizer. In similarly confusing fashion, almost every dance was accompanied by video projections. In the first work these were mostly abstract washes of color, not much different than could be effected with stage lighting. But later pieces were far different: defocused scenes of pedestrians walking through New York City, close-up views of modern sky scrapers that panned up or down or sideways or slant-ways, random or moiré-like geometric patterns, or dancers paired against abstract projected shadows of other dancers performing the same dance. Again, interesting, and sometimes thought-provoking, but also disorienting and distracting. Art! It's not always easy to digest! So would I go see this troupe again? Yeah sure, you betcha!

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