2004

ARTISTIC FEATS  Hedwig Dances presented the world premiere of Blues Dances by Jan Bartoszek, a collaboration with local blues pioneers Erwin Helfer and John Brumbach at The Dance Center of Columbia College ~ in “Sweet, Home Chicago”! Intricately linking, “live pianist Helfer’s boogie-woogie stylings to the wittily tough-edged movements”, and performed by Victor Alexander, Eric Eatherly, Brooke Franklin, Becca Lemme, Kirsty Mackellar, and Christopher McCray,  the choreography “strips down the Broadway musical convention of showing a diorama of broadly painted relationships across a bustling cityscape to something more aching and internal.” Lucia Mauro, Chicago Tribune.  Pieces by guest choreographers Renee Wadleigh’s One, Two (and a Half), Three, and, Jin-Wen Yu’s Duet #1, set on the Company, were also debuted by Hedwig Dances.  The world premiere of Artistic Associate Sheldon B. Smith’s How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb (reprised in the Spring Concert) and the showing of Jan Bartoszek’s work-in-progress Trouble In Mind were highlighted during the Company’s residency at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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