Cid Pearlman/Performance Projects presents:
FROM ESTONIA WITH LOVE
Friday, May 25, 2012
8:00pm
Live Arts Los Angeles
4210 Panamint Street, Los Angeles, CA 90065
Tickets: $15.50 in advance, $20 at the door
Choreographer Cid Pearlman returns to Los Angeles, accompanied by five dance artists from
Estonia and U.S.A., for an evening of intelligent and deeply embodied dancing. Los Angeles is the
third stop on a mini-tour of California, including events in San Francisco and Santa Cruz.
Cid Pearlman’s This is what we do in winter features dancers from Estonia and the United States,
performing to an original score by composer Jonathan Segel (Camper Van Beethoven). Starting as
strangers – foreign bodies in the same room – this international collaboration reflects on the process
of getting to know each other during the long dark Estonian winter. Pearlman’s “…intelligent,
sensual choreography…” (SF Bay Guardian, 2011) foregrounds the individuality of the performer.
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| photo credit: Beau Saunders |
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| Rain Saukas and Alexis Steeves - Photo: Reio Aare |
Estonian dance critic Tiit Tuumalu writes:
…This is what we do in winter continue(s) to haunt me...the
simplicity of its culmination, brightness, impressionistic mood,
soft humor, unconstrained-ness and dynamics were in beautiful
harmony with the music by Jonathan Segel. (Postimees, 2010)
During the 2009-10 academic year Pearlman was a Fulbright Scholar in Estonia, teaching at Tallinn University and collaborating with Estonian dance artists. One of the highlights was working with an extraordinary group of dancers – Rain Saukas, Tiina Mölder, Helen Reitsnik, Alexis Steeves and
David King. Together they experimented with performance and embodiment, thinking about how to create environments in which the dancers could be wholly themselves, while simultaneously working with the choreography that they created together. Out of these experiments came This is what we do in winter.
Show Box LA is pleased to be acting as co-producer for the Los Angeles stop of their tour.
