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ARMITAGE GONE! DANCE

Time is the Echo of an Axe • Ligeti Essays

Friday, October 3 &
Saturday, October 4 • 8 pm
The Moore Theater
$30 • Dartmouth students $5

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Only one person in the world has danced for Balanchine and Cunningham, choreographed for Baryshnikov and Nureyev, and been dubbed “punk ballerina” by Vanity Fair: the inimitable American choreographer Karole Armitage. She's also been in the spotlight for her collaborations with Madonna, filmmakers Merchant & Ivory, and visual artists—especially esteemed postmodern painter David Salle, who's designed scenes for many of her works, including the two in this Hop performance. Time is the Echo of an Axe, a fluid, mysterious piece set to Béla Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, blew away critics in 2004 when Karole Armitage premiered it in New York. Her vivacious new company, Armitage Gone! Dance, also performs The Ligeti Essays, a suite of jewel-like movements with sublime music by György Ligeti that “sends classicism off on startling tangents…of pristine complexity and sudden simplicity” (The Village Voice). Experience the far-ranging and fearless inspiration of Karole Armitage—ingenious creator of “ballet for our times.”