Dances from the Garden
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Terra Firma Dance Theatre, Randy James Dance Works and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
WHEN: Saturday, October 23, at 2 & 8 PM
WHERE: The Theatre at Raritan Valley Community College, 118 Lamington Road, Branchburg
Box Office: M-F, 11-4, 908.725.3420
TICKETS: $20 & $25
Dances from the Garden is RVCC’s second annual celebration of choreographers from the Garden State. The 2010 edition features performances by four different New Jersey dance companies: Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company; Terra Firma Dance Theatre; Randy James Dance Works; and Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company.
Since 1982, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company’s high-energy and technically demanding repertory has used movement as metaphor to take audiences on what one reviewer described as, "intellectual and emotional journeys."
Terra Firma Dance Theatre, under the guidance of Artistic Director Stuart Loungway, serves as a cultural think-tank for the dance landscape. As a rapidly rising contemporary ballet company, the core of their work focuses on movement as the primary language of basic human interaction.
“Typically James' Dancers don't hold anything back. They perform with an intensity that frightens, yet it is their dramatic subtlety that makes [it] so convincing. “—Robert Johnson, Star-Ledger
A blossom of color, energy and motion, "like endlessly proliferating forces of cosmic energy," says the New York Times. The dances of Nai-Ni Chen fuse the dynamic freedom of American modern dance with the grace and splendor of Asian art. The Company's productions take the audience beyond cultural boundaries to where tradition meets innovation and freedom arises from discipline.
