Daniel Burkholder/The PlayGround & Jane Jerardi @ Dance Place

March 28, 2009 @ 8pm

March 29, 2009 @ 7pm

Dance Place, Washington, DC

www.danceplace.or

DC-area artists Daniel Burkholder and Jane Jerardi generate inventive dance works that engage audiences in unexpected ways by employing improvisation, experimentation and multi-media. Daniel Burkholder's company, The PlayGround, combines the formalism of choreography with the spontaneity of improvisation in My ocean is never blue. Called  a "stunning display of ensemble work" by The Washington Post, the work examines our multi-faceted relationship to water, from the personal to the ecological and political. Jane Jerardi's dances move fluidly between media - from dancers captured in videos that are projected on the sides of buildings to intimate personal private performances and site-specific works. With Perspective, she returns to the stage and collects excerpts from several pieces she's created over the past five years. Re-imagined as a series of related dances, they will intersperse projected video with striking gesture and compelling performance, including a new piece to a score by Amy Farina of The Evens. "Jerardi's talent is well established within dance circles; her perfectly capable video installation proves her merits in other genres as well." - Washington Post's Express