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Jane Comfort Asphalt

Discipline
Performing Arts
Medium
Dance
Subject

Pop Culture

Race
State
New York
Year
2000
Status
Completed

Description

Asphalt is an evening-length dance theater work, with music by composer Toshi Reagon and text by spoken word artist Carl Hancock Rux. Asphalt tells the story of Racine, an aspiring DJ who uses the elements of jazz, classical, and trip hop beats to transcend his urban reality and enter a world made right by music.

Jane Comfort

Jane Comfort was honored with a Bessie Award for her work, Underground River. Her company has been presented by such venues as Lincoln Center’s Seriou…
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Project Updates

2001: Asphalt is performed at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in Oregon
2002: Asphalt has its official premiere at The Joyce Theater in New York
2002: Asphalt is performed as part of the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston ME
2003: Asphalt is performed at the University of Maryland in College Park MD