As The Shadows Grow Longer BY D. Patton White
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Susan A. Schmaeling, APR
Susan Schmaeling Public Relations
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CORE DANCE TO PERFORM AS THE SHADOWS GROW LONGER BY D. PATTON WHITE
March 14-16 at MATCH
Houston, TX (February 5, 2019) After the unexpected and untimely death of his brother Claiborne, choreographer and Core Dance Company Manager D. Patton White was invited to create a new works for the company by Artistic Director Sue Schroeder. The resulting work, As the Shadows Grow Longer, is a meditation on the notion that our lives have meaning because of the relationships we form over the course of a lifetime. The work will premiere in Houston on March 14, 15, 16, at 7:30 p.m. in MatchBox 2, at Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston, 3400 S. Main Street, Houston, 77002. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door available at the MATCH Box Office at (713) 521-4533 or https://matchouston.org.
At the beginning of the evening, the audience will find the dancers onstage already in motion. Saw horses, boards, assorted construction materials will fill the space, and the dance artists will make play structures. The audience will be invited to join them in this creative playground and will help to make some of the structures. As the performance section of the piece will begin, and the audience will be seated. At the closure of the piece, the audience will be invited to go onstage and move in quiet partnership with another person. A microphone will available for people to share the name(s) of departed loved ones they wish to remember and memorialize. Musical instruments will be available for people to sound notes into the space; and incense will be available for people to light.
Patton White danced in Core Dance for 18 years prior to his current role as Company Manager. He is a regular instructor for Core Dance’s morning classes and now brings his artistry as a dance maker back into the company.
CALENDAR INFORMATION
Core Dance presents a new work by D. Patton White, As the Shadows Grow Longer on March 14, 15, 16, 2019, 7:30 p.m. a work created after the unexpected and untimely death of his brother Claiborne. Tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door available through the MATCH Box Office at (713) 521-4533 or https://matchouston.org.
About Core Dance
Core Dance, an award-winning contemporary dance company with global reach, creates, performs, and produces compelling original dance that ignites the creative spirit and actively encourages participation and conversation with the community. For nearly four decades, Core Dance has supported innovation, collaboration, artistic risk-taking and sustainable art-making in dance. Core Dance was co-founded in 1980 in Houston, Texas by dancer and choreographer Sue Schroeder and her sister, Kathy Russell. Five years later, the organization added Atlanta, Georgia as a second home base, creating a context for dance that is relevant in both cities and around the globe. Core Dance uses dance to educate, question and illuminate, and is internationally recognized for its artistically driven research practices, cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary collaborations, the humanity of the individual Dance Artists, and its rigorous physicality. (coredance.org)
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