Week #2: April 17 – 19 (double bill)

Double‐Edge Dance AND Travesty Dance Group

Double-Edge Dance with boomerang and Guest Performers

Enjoy diverse works choreographed by Kora Radella, ranging from solos to sextets, accompanied by original music compositions by Michelle Birsky and DEDance co-founder, Ross Feller.

Double-Edge Dance is a contemporary dance and music company co-founded by choreographer/dancer Kora Radella and composer/saxophonist Ross Feller. Radella is the artistic director of Double-Edge Dance as well as boomerang, a fearlessly physical, poetically nuanced dance and performance project comprised of Radella, Matty Davis, and Adrian Galvin. DEDance work has been performed in cities including New York, Cleveland, Amsterdam, Basel, Brussels, and London. boomerang has performed in NYC at venues including Dixon Place, Irondale, Center for Performance Research, and Triskelion Arts. DEDance considers Kenyon College and CPT their artistic home bases in Ohio.

Performers include dancers Hannah Beckerman, Matty Davis, Eden Deering, Megan Darnell, Freeland Ellis, Elizabeth Furman, and Phoebe Rotter and musicians Klara Auerbach (voice), Michelle Birsky (voice), Eliza Blum (violin), Ali Goergen (percussion), Zoe Lyon (cello), Nandi Plunkett (piano) Rioghnach Robinson (voice), and Edek Sher (guitar).

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Travesty Dance Group- SoloSolo

Travesty Dance Group presents “SoloSolo,” an evening of new dance and live music. Artistic Director Kimberly Karpanty has choreographed new contemporary dance solos for herself and four TDG artists, each accompanied in performance by a live musician. Commissioned and contemporary scores for solo piano, French horn (Radek Baborak), cello (Zoe Keating), percussion and voice (Chuck Richie) will be played by local and nationally recognized performers including Neil Chastain and Claudia Howard Queen.

Travesty Dance Group (TDG) was conceived to support and produce the creative projects of its founding members, Kimberly Karpanty (Cleveland), Rebecca Malcolm-Naib (Philadelphia) and Karen Stokes (Houston). Enriched by collaborative process, Travesty Dance Group seeks to bring diverse original dance work to a variety of communities. The founders believe in dance as a basic human art, embracing both the complexities of contemporary society and the life affirming essence of movement. The fundamental hope of Travesty Dance Group is to create dance that rises above travesty to inspire and enlighten.

TDG debuted at Case Western Reserve University’s Mather Dance Center in May 1997 and has since presented work in Akron (Weathervane Community Playhouse), Cleveland, Houston, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle and abroad in Canada and Sweden. In 2010 the co-founders decided to pursue separate missions; Stokes created a sister company in Houston, Karen Stokes Dance, and Malcolm-Naib serves as an advisor for both groups. TDG is now an Ohio not-for-profit dance company under the sole direction of Kim Karpanty.

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Playing April 17 – 19 on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm