Upcoming Performances

Upcoming Performances

February 4-6, 2010
MCT Center for the Performing Arts
425 East Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802
Montana Suite Part I: 100 Miles from Forsyth (2009)
Thursday 6pm Benefit performance and silent auction
Friday, Saturday 7:30pm performances
Saturday 2pm performance

Headwaters Dance Company has been commissioning one dance each year over four years from four nationally known, contemporary dance choreographers - Donna Uchizono, John Jasperse, Lar Lubovitch, Jane Comfort - to make works based on their impressions about Montana. The combined "Montana Suite" will be performed in Missoula February 4-6, 2010, followed by a performance on February 11, 2010, at the Myrna Loy Center in Helena, MT.

In “Montana Suite Part I: 100 Miles from Forsyth,” Uchizono traveled through the territory called “Custer” or “Crow” country – a vast area of rocky badlands, dry grasslands, coal mines and oil drills. She spent time with ranchers, historians and Crow and Cheyenne and attended the sacred Sun Dance, seeing firsthand the delicate balance between resource extraction and care for the environment.

The choreography runs the gamut from a calm, sensual fluidity to the fast, angular movement of dancers sliding sloshing water glasses, as they roll and skid across the floor. The music, composed by Beryl Lee Heuermann, uses cello, electric guitar, a trap set and voice for the sound score ranging from archaic croaking to a Ry Cooder-ish guitar to the driving percussion of Troy Basher’s hoof beats.

Read more in the Lively Times for more detailed information, or read more about the Four Suites at the Headwaters website.


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