SEAN CURRAN COMPANY.SEAN n. 1. A seine. See Seine. CURRAN COMPANY JANUARY 5, 7, 8, 1999 Sean Curran's solos from his 1995 Five Points of Articulation are a stunning marriage of virtuosity and emotion. He dances like a soul in free fall, furiously moving his limbs to express sadness, shame, and ecstasy. Performed as a companion to newer works during this Altogether Different engagement at the Joyce Theater The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a , Curran seemed to be leaving behind such psychologically charged terrain and turning to a greater focus on form. He has always been a master of form, collaging idioms from Balanchine to 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. so that each style maintains its own integrity. His world premiere Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 , Symbolic Logic, gestured toward ballet and modern but was dominated by Indian dance. Although the piece created some striking shapes, it was never clear where the exploration of this form was taking him. In Folk Dance for the Future (1997), he put gay and racially mixed couples in the context of traditional Irish dance. Both pieces immerse Curran in singular style, but they lack the idiosyncrasy idiosyncrasy /id·io·syn·cra·sy/ (-sing´krah-se) 1. a habit peculiar to an individual. 2. an abnormal susceptibility to an agent (e.g., a drug) peculiar to an individual. of his 1998 Each of Both, a piece with searching emotional themes that are not as well developed as those of Five, but which do point him in the right direction. |
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