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Tere O'Connor Wrought Iron Fog

Discipline
Performing Arts
Medium
Dance
Subject

Body

Politics
State
New York
Year
2009
Status
Touring

Description

Tere O’Connor’s new dance work for eight dancers, with music by composer James Baker, will center on the nature of authority and on change as a generative force. O’Connor builds each work through exploration with his dancers. For this new piece, the order in which material is performed changes each night, separated into “swatches” of choreography that each dancer chooses to arrange as he or she sees fit. His goal is to evoke an ordered performance experience while allowing every member of the ensemble to dictate and change that order.

Tere O'Connor

Tere O’Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created more than 34 works for his company. These works have been presented in the U.S., Europe,…
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Project Updates

2010: Wrought Iron Fog has west coast premiere at REDCAT in Los Angeles
2010: Wrought Iron Fog is showcased at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in NYC
2009: Wrought Iron Fog has its world premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in NYC