CHOREOGRAPHER TAKES LIGHTER TOUCH TWO BOUQUETS FROM PETRONIO, WAINWRIGHT.Byline: Vicki Smith Paluch Correspondent Purity, simplicity and lightness are not words usually used to describe the choreography of Stephen Petronio Stephen Petronio is an artistic director, choreographer and dancer based in New York City. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1956, he later received a B.A. degree from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he began dancing in 1974. . Ferocious, intelligent, aggressive and sexually charged are more like it. But after the dark elegy elegy, in Greek and Roman poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse (i.e., couplets consisting of a hexameter line followed by a pentameter line). The form dates back to 7th cent. B.C. in Greece and poets such as Archilochus, Mimnermus, and Tytraeus. of his post-9/11 work, ``City of Twist'' (2003), and the anger and violence of ``Island of Misfit mis·fit n. 1. Something of the wrong size or shape for its purpose. 2. One who is unable to adjust to one's environment or circumstances or is considered to be disturbingly different from others. Toys,'' he needed to come up for air and light. So, last spring as he turned 50, Petronio created two bouquets -- ``Bud Suite'' and ``Bloom'' -- in collaboration with singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright. He also invited a youth chorus to join ``Bloom.'' While a recording of Wainwright's voice and music will be heard when the Stephen Petronio Company returns to UCLA's Royce Hall Royce Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Designed by the Los Angeles firm of Allison & Allison (James Edward Allison, 1870-1955, and his brother David Clark Allison, 1881-1962) in the Italian Romanesque Revival style and completed on Friday and Saturday, the Paulist Choristers of California youth choir will perform live. Literary elements Wainwright wrote the music and applied unconventional lyrics to his score for ``Bloom,'' combining a Latin Mass The term Latin Mass refers to the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Mass celebrated in Latin. Specifically, the term is frequently used to denote the Tridentine Mass: that is, the Roman-Rite liturgy of the Mass celebrated in accordance with the successive editions of the Roman (Lux Aeterna Lux Aeterna can refer to the following:
``This piece is very much about optimism, with a bit of regret, only because I find so much in this world right now and in this country,'' Wainwright told The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times before the piece opened last year. ``But I think for young people, who are blooming and are really, really innocent about the ways of the world, they really need to be nurtured and given a sense of hope. And I think that was the main vision in my head, with the youth choirs and the dancers, to illustrate the fragile love that exists when someone is approaching adulthood.'' Petronio, who often collaborates with musicians, artists and couture designers, said he had long wanted to work with Wainwright. ``I love his music. That's where it starts for me. I had worked with his mother, Kate McGarrigle Kate McGarrigle (born on February 6, 1946 in Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who writes and performs as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle. . She sang a Lou Reed Lou Reed, born Lewis Allen Reed[1] March 2, 1942, is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. Reed first found prominence as the guitarist and principal singer-songwriter of The Velvet Underground (1965-1973). song for `Island of Misfit Toys,' and I asked him to see the show. Then I chased after him.'' While they were trying to work on ``Bloom,'' other obligations tied up Wainwright. He will bring his tribute to Judy Garland to the Hollywood Bowl The Hollywood Bowl is a modern amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California, USA, that is used primarily for music performances. The "bowl" in this context is the natural cavity in the earth into which the amphitheater is built, rather than the shape of the in September. Bud, but not a flower So, Petronio started choreographing a male duet called, ``Bud,'' set to Wainwright's recording of ``Oh What a World.'' Petronio continued creating dances to four Wainwright songs and completed ``Bud Suite.'' The ``bud'' is not necessarily floral. ``I was thinking bud, like in buddies, when I did the duet,'' he recalled. Of Wainwright's songs, Petronio said, ``It sounds so light and uplifting, and yet it has this ironic edge that turns it on its head.'' Petronio is a master of provocative irony. He started dancing in 1974 and became the first male dancer in the Trisha Brown Trisha Brown (25 November 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.) is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer. Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington, and received a B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. Brown later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. Company (1979-1986). A provocative list Since the inception of his company in 1984, he has created more than 30 works and has collaborated with some of the world's most provocative talents, including Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson, James Lavelle, Michael Nyman, visual artists Cindy Sherman and Anish Kapoor, and fashion designers Tara Subkoff, Manolo and Rachel Roy. The last time Los Angeles dance audiences saw Stephen Petronio Dance Company was two years ago at Royce Hall when the choreographer delved into the dark corners of post-9-11 Manhattan in ``City of Twists,'' which came as close to narrative dance as this post-modern formalist has ever gotten. The company also performed ``Island of Misfit Toys'' with music by Lou Reed. ``Stephen Petronio is one of the most underestimated choreographers in the United States. He is top among his generation,'' UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Live Director of Performing Arts David Sefton said. ``He has his own choreographic voice, a distinct style and his work is always fresh.'' ``Rufus has made (`Bloom') as light and eternal as possible. He took me very literally,'' Petronio said. ``We need light when the world stage is so dark.'' STEPHEN PETRONIO COMPANY What: Dancers perform ``Bud Suite,'' ``Bloom'' and ``The Rite Part.'' Where: UCLA's Royce Hall, near Sunset Boulevard and Westwood Plaza. When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets: $45 to $22. (310) 825-2101. www.UCLALive.org. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The Stephen Petronio Company performs ``Bloom'' and ``Bud Suite'' to the songs of Rufus Wainwright on Friday and Saturday at Royce Hall. |
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