Sunday, Again
UNIT IN REACTION
frame of view

founder Nancy Laurie
artistic director Benoit-Swan Pouffer
executive director Greg Mudd

corps de ballet
JubalBattisti, Jon Bond, Nickemil Concepcion, Gwynenn Taylor Jones, Jessica Lee Keller, Jason Kittelberger, Ana-Maria Lucaciu, Oscar Ramos, Matthew Rich, Acacia Schachte, Harumi Terayama, Manuel Vignoulle, Ebony Williams, Golan Yosef

company director Pamela Vachon
production director Anita Shah
maître de ballet Alexandra Damiani
technical director Andy Cappelli
stage manager Renata Braga de Almeida
audio and video supervisor Dave Rogge
tailoring supervisor Eva Blank
lighting supervisor Jim French
booking Margaret Selby, CAMI Spectrum LLC

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet
Founded in 2003 from Nancy Laurie, the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has already established itself for its extraordinary corps of dance composed from sixteen talented dancers as well as its accentuated
propensity to to work with the most sought-after emerging choreographers in the world. Under the artistic direction of Benoit-Swan Pouffer, Cedar Lake offers a wide-ranging U.S. and international repertoire, including works by Nicolo Fonte, Edwaard Liang, Crystal Pite, Jacopo Godani, Stijn Celis, Angelin Preljocaj and Ohad Naharin, Didy Veldman, Luca Veggetti and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Through bold, athletic movement dynamics and a successful integration of classical ballet and contemporary forms, the Cedar Lake dancers take audiences on a choreographic journey that explores the infinite possibilities of movement and multimedia. Performances scheduled for 2009 and 2010 include creations by Alexander Ekman and Hofesh Shechter.

Sunday, Again
choreography Jo Strømgren
lighting design Jim French and Jo Strømgren
assistant choreography Alexandra Damiani
costumes Junghyun Georgia Lee

With the entire corps de ballet - Duets:

Jason Kittelberger / Acacia Schachte

Jubal Battisti / Harumi Terayama

Golan Yosef / Ebony Williams

Ana- Maria Lucaciu / Gwynenn Taylor Jones

Jessica Lee Keller / Nickemil Concepcion
music Jesu, Meine Freude, Motet No.3 in E minor, BWV 225-230 by Johann Sebastian Bach, Maitrise Des Petits Chanteurs de Versailles, Concert Saint Julien, Direction Jean-François Fremont

Sunday, Again is primarily intended to reflect the complex variety of Johann Sebastian Bach's musical style. Abstract moving figures intertwine and follow one another as in a fugue, in the same way that melodic phrases and embellishments followed one another in the Baroque style. On an associative level, on the other hand, the performance deals with the theme of domestic life, a jungle of problems and contrasts derived from the difficult
interaction between men and women. As the title suggests, the exasperating Sunday always inevitably returns, forcing couples to to test their ability to coexist. Time off is not good for to a certain kind of relationship.
Jo Strømgen

UNIT IN REACTION
Italian premiere
choreography Jacopo Godani
assistant choreography Alexandra Damiani
lighting design and costumes Jacopo Godani

performers Jon Bond, Jason Kittleberger, Ana Maria Lucaciu, Oscar Ramos, Acacia Schachte, Ebony Williams

music Ulrich Müller and Sigfried Rössert of 48 North

It fascinates me to push the dancers to the limit of their possibilities with abrupt changes in speed and rhythm. It is at the moment when the dancers are most stressed that they are able to to free themselves from the cerebrality of dance by achieving pure physicality. Unit in Reaction is a play of patterns that
split and transform fluidly, a living geometric architecture, an exploration of our role in this world of mass communication and sensory overload. Think of the enormous amount of media messages and images by which we are constantly bombarded. I see movement, in this choreography, similar to to that produced by pixels on a video screen, animated, changing, evolving. Is it possible that the speed of such an amount of "communication" can take on artistic connotations?
Jacopo Godani

frame of view
Italian premiere
choreography Didy Veldman
assistant choreography Alexandra Damiani
lighting design Ben Ormerod
costumes and sets Miriam Buether
performers Jon Bond, Nickemil Concepcion, Gwynenn Taylor Jones, Matthew Rich, Acacia Schachte, Harumi Terayama, Manuel Vignoulle, Ebony Williams, Golan Yosef

music
K'in foils Ch'ul Me' tik Kwadulupe by Osvaldo Golijov / Philip Feeney

Mugam Sayagi (String Quartes No.3) by Franghiz Alizadeh
Ne Me Quitte Pas
Anastaja by Kimmo Pohjonen.
Let's Never Stop Falling in Love by China F. Forbes and Thomas M. Lauderdale
And the door is still open (to my heart)

I wanted to investigate the physical movement that a particular emotion can provoke, how it manifests itself in our bodies, how to long its physical connotation can last, and the energy it unleashes.
Through the use onstage of different perspectives and a varied musical landscape, I hope to have created a work that is usable, not without a touch of irony and humor.
Didy Veldman

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