Representing a radical shift from Jane Comfort’s history of text-driven works, Altiplano is an abstract dance that originates in movement structures that range from spare images of the desert to highly physical and complex configurations, like a flash flood or violent winds. It references the evolution of animals and social communication with its gradually increasing physicality and hive-like density.
The one hour work for seven dancers premiered at La MaMa E.T.C May 28-31, 2015.
Direction: Jane Comfort
Choreography: Jane Comfort and Company
Lighting Design: Joe Levasseur
Sound Design: Brandon Wolcott
Costume Design: Liz Prince
Cast:
Ellen Smith Ahern
Leslie Cuyjet
Sean Donovan
Petra van Noort
Gabrielle Revlock
Javier Perez
Darrin Wright
Performance History:
Excerpt showings at The Joyce Theater, Working Women Series – January 2012
Work in Progress showing at The American Dance Institute – October 2013
Excerpt showings at DanceNOW, Joe’s Pub – September 2013
Made possible through funds from:
National Endowment for the Arts (2013), American Dance Institute (commissioning funds and development residency)
