From: Artifact Dance Project <info@artifactdanceproject.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 7:06 AM
Subject: "Positions of Power" directed and choreographed by Claire Hancock
Artifact Dance Project presents
POSITIONS OF POWER
Two works directed and choreographed by Artistic Director Claire Hancock
Stevie Eller Dance Theatre
Thursday, September 20 | 7:30pm
Friday, September 21 | 7:30pm
Saturday, September 22 | 7:30pm
Sunday, September 23 | 2:00pm
Concert length: approximately 1.5 hours
plus 20-minute intermission
Single Tickets $32
Season Subscriptions $90
The Oval Portrait
Original Score by Dan Coleman
A Painted Devil
Original Score by Vin Calianno
Artifact Dance Project tells two stories of manipulation and malice. Artistic Director Claire Hancock premieres her adaptation of Thomas Cullinan's novel, A Painted Devil, about a Union soldier who finds himself in an all-female boarding house entangled with rivalries and jealousies in the Confederate South. Music by Vincent Calianno for strings, piano, percussion and electronics. Hancock remounts her version of Edgar Allan Poe's short story, "The Oval Portrait", about a painter who becomes so obsessed with creating a lifelike painting of his wife that he deprives her of real love in the process. Music by Dan Coleman for string quartet.
The Oval Portrait
Original Score by Dan Coleman
I remember hearing Dan Coleman's string quartet for the first time in search of music for "The Oval Portrait", which premiered on an early Artifact concert back in 2010 entitled Poe. The music communicated the story perfectly and although Dan had composed it a decade earlier, we both remarked once we got into the theatre on how the two seemed to be made for one another. Returning to it all these years later proves as thrilling and as rewarding as the first time around.
-Claire Hancock, Choreographer, Director
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A Painted Devil
Original Score by Vin Calianno
In search of music for "A Painted Devil" I turned to past collaborator and friend, Vincent Calianno. We have worked with several of Vin's chamber works over the years and even commissioned a work by him for our Poe concert in 2010. For this project, I selected seven of his past pieces, each one from a different year, made for a different purpose, and featuring a different grouping of instruments. Collecting and sequencing the seven pieces painted an eerily vivid picture of the plot and how I was going to unfold the story on stage. It was a eureka moment: total synchronicity of sight and sound. Once I discovered the uncanny suitability of the music to the imagery of the story, I couldn't contain my excitement and got in touch with Vin. He agreed. Now none of us can contain our excitement and the story is vibrating with life.
-Claire Hancock, Choreographer, Director
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