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Dartmouth Dance Ensemble

Ford Evans, director

Cistern: An Uncommon Ritual

A Modern Dance Concert

Friday, APRIL 13 • 8 pm

Saturday, APRIL 14 • 8 pm

The Moore Theater
$14 • Dartmouth students $3
All other students $6

Click here for DDE's blog about the creation of Cistern

Click to download PROGRAM NOTES

Ancient metal cisterns stand onstage like sentinels, empty vessels full of potent symbolism. Pools of water reflect the flowing movement of the dancers and projected images by videographer Michael Sacca. In a new multimedia, multi-generational dance work — a collaboration between the Ensemble and guest choreographers — time streams between past, present and future. Movement, music and visuals shimmer with meaning and reverberate with a mythopoeic sense of ritual in this powerful sensory experience.

Performance may contain nudity.