Kanopy Dance Company

$15.

The modern dance company Kanopy Dance -- resident company of Madison's  Overture Center for the Arts -- will be in performance in southwestern Wisconsin at the historic Mineral Point Opera House on Sunday afternoon, April 17 at 2:30.

PROGRAM:  

METAMORPHOSIS (2014)

Choreographer: Robert E Cleary

Music: Shlomo Calvo, Metamorphosis

Lighting Design: Mark Penisten

Costumes: Robert E Cleary

Kanopy Dance Company Dancers: Jessica Hoyt, Alyssa Jendusa, Sarah Wolf, Sierra Kay Powell, Anna Betz, Olivia Claire Rivard, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Carlos Ramirez-Araujo, Brad Orego.  

PASSAGE (2014)

Choreographer: Brienna Tipler

Music: “0952” by Ólafur Arnalds and “Fake Fealty” by Balmorhea

Costumes: Brienna Tipler

Lighting Design: Mark Penisten

Kanopy Company II Dancers: Rachel Tobin, Allison Helmers, Jennifer Arzt, Maia Sauer, Maya Finman Palmer, Eve Levi, Veda Manly, Sundara Link, Catherine Maxwell, Sarah Nathan, Bess Howell

Passage explores the themes of self-reflection and eagerness that accompany the beginning of a new journey. The piece was originally choreographed in 2014 and began with musically inspired movement to the riveting violins in the music.  

PRELUDE & FUGUE (2016)

Choreographer: Lisa Thurrell

Music: Vittorio Giannini

Costume Design: Amy Panganiban

Lighting Design: Mark Penisten

Kanopy Dance Company Dancers: Sierra Kay Powell, Soloist; Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Sarah Wolf, Olivia Claire Rivard, Jessica Hoyt, Alyssa Jendusa, Anna Betz, Brad Orego, Carlos Ramirez-Araujo

It is said that neo romantic composer Vittorio Giannini was driven by “an unrelenting quest for the beautiful.” His music soared through me with its beauty, yet caused in me anger at the discord and darkness we humans can create. I visioned ‘gods and goddesses’ of the golden mean just a bit angered by our folly.  

INTERMISSION  

LA ROÑA & RAYUELA (2015)

Choreographer: Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez

Music: Jerez Texas “Bajo los Naranjos,” Los Activos “Paloma Azul”

Costume Design: Amy Panganiban

Lighting Design: Mark Penisten

Kanopy Dance Company Dancers:

1. La Roña (tag): Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Jessica Hoyt

2. Rayuela (hopscotch): Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Jessica Hoyt, Alyssa Jendusa, Sierra Kay Powell, Olivia Claire Rivard, Carlos Ramirez-Araujo, Brad Orego, Sarah Wolf, Brienna Tipler, Anna Betz  

BLUE RONDO TOCCATA (2016)

Choreographer: Robert E Cleary

Music: David Brubek, “Blue Rondo á la Turk,” Arvo Pärt, “Collage Uber Bach: Toccata”

Set: Kevin Earley

Lighting Design: Mark Penisten

Costumes: Robert E Cleary

Kanopy Company II dancers: Jennifer Arzt, Allison Hellmers, Bess Howell, Eve Levi, Sundara Link, Veda Manly, Catherine Maxwell, Sarah Nathan, Maya Finman Palmer, Maia Sauer, Rachel Tobin

Blue Rondo Toccata is a fantastical collage of images. Its surrealist expressionism and glances at nuances

in time hidden in the dancers lives create a work of theatricality and humor.  

COME MONTHS, COME AWAY (1996)

Choreographer: Lisa Thurrell

Music: Geoff Smith, “The Last of England” based on: “A Dirge” by Percy Bysshe Shelley,“Remembrance” & “Untitled Fragment” by Emily Bronte, “Faery Songs” by John Keats

Lighting Design: Mark Penisten

Costumes: Lisa Thurrell, Renee Earley

Kanopy Dance Company Dancers: Olivia Claire Rivard, Sarah Wolf, Sierra Kay Powell, Jessica Hoyt, Alyssa Jendusa, Anna Betz, Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, Brad Orego, Carlos Ramirez-Araujo. Brienna Tipler

A suite of three songs, the tone is turn of the 20th century romanticism. In the first song the year is personifi ed by a woman; the months, as shadows and blowing dusty images of autumn. This is a celebration of autumn. In the second song the poetry suggest time passage and remembrance. The Brontë sisters created an imaginary world that they named Gondal. Many of their poems were based on the lives of its fictitious inhabitants. Here the sisters are immersed in their determined bittersweet creation. In the final song, and in a seven count, John Keats speaks to us in jubilant and bright tone. The voice sings from overhead and the dance swirls below, uplifting the spirit. -Dedicated in memory of Richard J Thurrell and Richard Zillman.