Ad Deum Dance Company Presents From One Heart

Ad Deum Dance Company presents From One Heart. Photo by Scott Morrow.

Ad Deum Dance Company presents FROM ONE HEART, a fresh and innovative springtime mix of choreographic bouquets. With a recent return from their annual New York tour and major performance in an open air festival in Times Square, the dancers are eager to bring the movement to their home front and bring the best of their season to the Houston fans.

FROM ONE HEART actually embraces the pulsating rhythms and flow of a multitude of dance makers. Ad Deum remains enriched by hosting some amazingly gifted choreographers during their season, and then showcasing their offerings to their hometown audiences. This performance is loaded with true gems of artistry.

Ad Deum founder and director Randall Flinn provides the signature pulse that carries the theme throughout the show. His work, notably, From One Heart is complete with a wonderful score from cellist Zoe Keating and resounds with articulate rhythms and driving physicality. The work ignites the sensations of the soul in a bond of unity that finds its substance in the spark of one heartbeat.

New York resident and Jose Limon dancer/choreographer Durell Ron Comedy brings forth his colorful masterpiece in the premiere of his lavishly dramatic Love In Blood. With an unexpected folk and hymn style composition, the music by master artists Tom Waits & Gavin Bryars is a bit dirge-like in quality but life affirming in content. Mr. Comedy has captured, ever so cleverly, the essence of this sacred ballad in an almost holy theatricality of body language that embodies praise and adoration.

Former Alvin Ailey dancer and NY based choreographer Freddie Moore will premier his new work on Ad Deum entitled My Soul. Ad Deum just had the honor of performing this work in a collaboration with Mr. Moore’s own company called Footprints Dance. This fusion took place at The Alvin Ailey Center for Dance where it received rave reviews from many of The Big Apple’s own dance movers and shakers.

Keeping in line with their array of guest artists, Ad Deum is pleased to bring back to the stage the intensely compelling creation of former Doug Varone dancer Ryan Corriston. Corriston’s piece is a labor of heavy burden for victims of human sex trafficking and hope for their rescue and restoration. Appropriately titled Exodus, the artists of Ad Deum clothe themselves in the mission of raising awareness for this horrific injustice of humanity.

Both Flinn and Comedy will also offer additional works on the bill. Sacrifice by Flinn is a deeply Graham- influenced work via inspiration from friend and former Graham dancer Steve Rooks. The piece is a picturesque look at the cost of true sacrifice and the depth of passion to preserve with submission to a greater cause. Comedy chimes in the celebration of such a sweet surrender in his intricate and exhilarating Joyful Noise.

So don’t miss the best of Ad Deum’s “pulsational” beat as they move into Houston’s newest and grooviest performance space called

The Barn, 2201 Preston St, Friday May 30th $15 general admission/$5 children under 12yrs. www.danceaddeum.com at 8pm and Sunday June 1st at 3pm. Tickets available at the door,