Pearson Widrig Dance Theater - Site Specific

Repertory

•	Company Works

•	Solos & Duets

•	Site-Specific/ Site-Adaptive

	–	A Curious Invasion
	–	Ordinary Festivals
	–	Ley Lines
	–	WaterSkyBoatFly
	–	Graven Images
	–	If Wishes Were Horses Beggars Would Ride
	–	Paradise Pond

•	Community Performance Projects

•	Video Works

•	Lecture Demonstrations

•	Young People’s Concerts

•	Repertory List 1986-2007

Rebecca Blom

“We are taken into a world of
fantasy. This is generous dance that
flees the constraints of the theater.”

New York Foundation for the Arts Publication

• A dance of mystery and enchantment for nine performers in three row boats.

• Original music by Carman Moore, Jason Akira Somma

Premiere • Central Park, NYC, July 1996

Tour Highlights • Hopkins Center / Dartmouth College, July 2003

Commissioned by • Meet the Composer and the Central Park Conservancy

“It looks kind of like how paradise would look.”

Tracey Jonsson, Bronx, NY

Eleftheria Deko

“Water, sunlight, and dancing
bodies created glorious effects.”

Dance Magazine

• A summer dance for the multitudes on the beach, in and on and under the sand, in and under the water.

• Original music by the Brooklyn Conch Orchestra

Premiere • Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, June 1987

• Commissioned by Dancing in the Streets

Laura Faure, Portland Museum of Art

“Personal and public, private and
profound, humorous and sad,
sober and enlightening.”

Lincoln Journal Star

• If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride is a multi-disciplinary community-based dance theater work in which people remember, explore, and question pivotal moments of change in their lives.

• See Video Excerpt

• New video portraits can be created specifically with/for your community as part of a residency project (see Video Works).

Tour Highlights • I. M. Pei’s Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine • Wagon Train Project, Lincoln, NE • Padatik Dance Center, Calcutta, India

Commissioned by • the Bates Dance Festival, the Portland Museum of Art, the OnSite Performance Network (a program of Dancing in the Streets, with funding from the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation). Additional support provided by the NEA, the Maine Humanities Council and the Maine Arts Commission, the Davis Family Foundation, LEF Foundation, Tom's of Maine, Libra Foundation, Philip Morris, Inc., Swiss Center Foundation, Beatrice Gilmore Fund for Museum Education, and Key Bank.


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