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THE ABRONS ARTS CENTER
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TRELLIS

APRIL 22 - 24, 2010 at 8pm
APRIL 25, 2010 at 5pm

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.

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