(2002) Last April

Description

Last April by Peter Sciscioli combines dance and text with video images from nature and immigrant populations to explore questions of identity, ancestry and the unknowable future. 

Production

Choreography, Concept, & Direction: Peter Sciscioli
Movement Development & Text: The Dancers
Music: Traditional (composed by Gorecki, Carter Burwell)
Traditional (performed by Fairus)
Sound Design / Additional Composition: Chris J. Johnson & Peter Sciscioli
Video Design: Melissa Lynn Strezlinski
Costumes: courtesy of Columbia College costume shop, Jan Bartoszek and Atalee Judy
Lighting Design: Jason Tugman

Cast

 Peter Sciscioli, Mei-Kuang Chen, Eric Eatherly, Denise Zdenek

Performance(s)

Ache of the Arc

Dance Center of Columbia College

April 18-20, 2002

 

Dances of Identity and More

Polish American Concern Committee’s Celebration of Polish American Heritage Month

October 11, 2003

Critique(s)

“…the intimate details of lives lived in the unreachable past.”
-Laura Molzahn, Chicago Reader