Innovations 2013

Trapped
Revival

Choreographer: Christopher Ruud
Music: Vladimir Martynov – Autumn Ball of the Elves
Lighting Design: Nicholas Cavallaro
Costume Design: David Heuvel with Christopher Ruud
Set Concept: Christopher Ruud
Lighting and Set Design: Nicholas Cavallaro
Set Execution: Robert Clifford

 "Man is born free,
and everywhere he is in shackles."

-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Humankind seems trapped within the repeating cycles of obedience to systemic normalcy.

 Mechanism
World Premiere

Choreographer: Easton Smith
Music: Concerto for violin, strings & BC No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lighting design: Nicholas Cavallaro
Costume design: David Heuvel

Behind Closed Doors
World Premiere

Choreography: Christopher Anderson
Music: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Lighting design: Nicholas Cavallaro
Costume design: Christopher Anderson 

Violinist: Aubrey Woods

 

 Spun
World Premiere

 Choreography by Adrian Fry
Music: “Film Credits,” “This Place Is A Shelter” and “Near Light,”
by Ólafur Arnalds from Living Room Songs,
Recorded on Erased Tapes Records
Lighting by Nicholas Cavallaro
Costumes conceived by Tyler Gum

Spun was inspired by the spinning tops in the 1969 short film Tops by Charles and Ray Eames. 

 Mercurial Landscape
World Premiere

Choreographer: Jodie Gates
Music: Max Richter, selections from Recomposed by Max Richter:
Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Lighting design: Nicholas Cavallaro
Costume design: Melanie Watnick 

mer-cu-ri-al: characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood. Mercurial describes someone whose mood or behavior is changeable and unpredictable, or someone who is clever, lively, and quick.