CHOREOGRAPHED BY LAWRENCE GOLDHUBER SET AND LIGHTING DESIGN BY GREGORY L. BAIN NEW MUSIC BY GEOFF GERSH OLD MUSIC BY SKEETER DAVIS PERFORMED BY ROY FIALKOW, LAWRENCE GOLDHUBER, AND SIRI PETERSON
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Celebrating his twenty-fifth year in dance, New York-based choreographer and dancer Lawrence Goldhuber premieres TRELLIS, the newest work from BIGMANARTS. TRELLIS peers through the standard love triangle: Roy wants Siri, Siri wants Larry, Larry wants Roy. Working without an existing narrative for the first time, Goldhuber developed the storyline through movement and music alone. What has emerged is an eerie tangle of secretive watching and desire. Following his 2008 work, Sleeping Giant, he returns to the Abrons with this exciting new trio with new music by Geoff Gersh and old music by Skeeter Davis.
The dance piece chronicles a passage of time through three dancers' (Roy Fialko, Goldhuber, Siri Peterson) coupling and de-coupling. The architecture of two bench trellises serves as semiopaque walls through which the characters separate and observe one another in circular progression. The imposing structure represents an Eden for the dancers, while additional elements bring the outside world crashing into their reality.
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Goldhuber has been surprising dance audiences for twenty-five years
since his tenure with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. His
decade dancing with that company earned him a 1995 NY Dance and
Performance (Bessie) Award. Lawrence Goldhuber's works include
choreographing Whose Broads Stripes on the steps of the Federal Hall
National Memorial, Julius Caesar Superstar at Danspace Project, The
Cost of Living with British group DV8 in Sydney, London and Hong Kong,
and performing with Meredith Monk in Ascension Variations at the
Guggenheim. His work has been commissioned by The Joyce Theater, DTW,
PICA, Danspace Project, PS122, LMCC, Jacob's Pillow, The American Dance
Festival, The Whitney Museum, The Cannes International Festival de
Danse, PS122, and Celebrate Brooklyn! Goldhuber began working with the
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in 1985 touring worldwide and
creating roles in such landmark dances as Still/Here and Last Supper at
Uncle Tom's Cabin. For more information visit www.bigmanarts.com.
Gregory L. Bain (Set and Lighting Design) is active in media
technologies, theatrical production and advanced theatre crafts,
lighting design, sound design and stage management, and 2010 marks the
twenty-four year anniversary of his collaborating with the artistry of
Lawrence Goldhuber.
Roy Fialkow (Dancer) was a principal dancer and choreographer with Les
Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo and has danced in the companies of
Jane Comfort, Donald Byrd and Takako Asakawa/David Hatch Walker.
Geoff Gersh (Composer) has composed a number of works including Swan
Pouffer's Parts of Us, Karen Graham's Opening Movement in a Still Life,
and The Thief, and several works for BIGMANARTS. He has been a band
member for the Off-Broadway production of Blue Man Group since 1998
where he plays the electric zither.
Siri Peterson (Dancer) is a Brooklyn based choreographer whose work has
been presented by Danspace Project, Dance Theater Workshop, the
DanceNow "Up and Coming" series, Dixon Place, the Flea, and the
Chocolate Factory.
Skeeter Davis was an American country music singer best known for
crossover pop music songs of the early 1960s. One of the first women to
achieve major stardom in the country music field as a solo vocalist,
she was an acknowledged influence on Tammy Wynette and Dolly Parton.
The Abrons Arts Center is a division of Henry Street Settlement, which
has provided social services and artistic programming to Manhattan's
Lower East Side since 1893. Abrons opened in 1975 to house Henry
Street's visual and performing arts alongside its community-based arts
training. The performing arts program inherits the century-long legacy
of the Neighborhood Playhouse, where some of the most adventurous
artists have trained, taught, or performed, including Laurie Anderson,
John Cage, Aaron Copland, Dizzy Gillespie, Martha Graham, Philip Glass,
Alicia Keyes, Alwin Nikolais, Lou Reed, Denzel Washington, and Orson
Welles. The Artist Workspace Program has been established to provide
performing artists with free rehearsal space to develop challenging new
projects and mount public showings of these works-in-progress.