DEDICATED TO [ ] BECAUSE OF [ ] (AND VICE VERSA)
“flaunts a complex of references … and content” - Indy Week Lightsey Darst, 09.16.2013
"a sinewy, fluid quality...grounded and fierce"
- Lisa Thomas 05.2006
"sensitive and dramatic"
- The Lynchburg Ledger 12.2004
"a sweet nightmare...dreamily searching" - GoTriad 01.2006
"stark and inventive"
- The News & Observer 06.20.2006
The company’s most revered work, Dedicated to [ ] because of [ ] (and vice versa), received a standing ovation at its 2007 debut at Judson Church.
Dedicated is a complex dance theater work that explores the deeply personal and cultural landscape of gender and violence. Referencing political and pop culture icons, Actor and playwright Richard Kirkwood joins the dancers as an explosive opposing force to the repetition of their movement language. Kirkwood and Comerford co-wrote the text as an ever-changing context that builds on shifts of power. The result is a multilayered dance theatre experience marked by a desire for reclamation.
This work has proudly been selected for presentation by The American Dance Festival, the North Carolina Dance Festival and the American Dance Guild.
Additional Touring Venues: Movement Research at Judson Church [NYC], Hudson Guild Theatre [NYC] The Flea Theater [NYC], ArtsCetera [Brooklyn, NY], The Field’s FAR Space [NYC]; Dance Theatre Workshop [NYC], Jones Auditorium [Raleigh, NC], Valborg Theater [Boone, NC], Aycock Auditorium [Greensboro, NC], Robinson Hall [Charlotte, NC], Community Arts Center [Wilmington, NC]
Dedicated was recently selected for the American Dance Festival's Here and Now: NC Dances, Summer 2015 Season. Click HERE for more information.