Tere O’Connor Dance

RAMMED EARTH

• Venue: USA
• Dates: 1/2/3 May
• Nationality: USA
• Time: 9pm
• Duration: 60 mins
• Tickets: €20/17 (concession)

"Mr. O'Connor transmuted dry, rigorous, minimal movement into rhythmically complex, textured encounters among his four superb dancers to create a kind of poem of richness and emotional depth."
The New York Times

Rammed Earth investigates the deep impact that architecture has on both art and existence. O’Connor builds dance and movement from what is provided by the physical environment in this site specific work. Positioned and repositioned in the space, the audience view the choreography from altering perspectives. Dancers move around you, in between you and behind you so that you can feel the rush of air their movements create.

Rammed Earth is created in collaboration with O’Connor’s longtime artistic partners – lighting designers Michael O’Connor and Brian MacDevitt and composer James Baker - and is performed by his four versatile dancers.

Seating will be provided. Audience members should be prepared to carry their chairs from place to place as the dancers move through the space.

Choreographer
Tere O’Connor

Music
James Baker

Lighting Design
Brian MacDevitt
Michael O’Connor

Performers
Hilary Clark
Heather Olson
Matthew Rogers
Christopher Williams

Rammed Earth was made possible by the Doris Duke Fund for Dance of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Foundation and MetLife Foundation. Rammed Earth has also been made possible with critical support from The Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund; the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency); Altria Group, Inc.; Bossak-Heilbron Charitable Foundation; the New York State Council on the Arts (a state agency), and the generous support of Tere O’Connor Dance.

Rammed Earth is made possible, in part, with funds from the 2007-08 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Mid-Size Presenting Organizations Initiative, implemented by the Nonprofit Finance Fund and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Photo credit
Tere O’Connor Dance
“Rammed Earth”
Pictured Heather Olson and Matthew Rogers
Photo by Paula Court

See a trailer for Rammed Earth here

For more information on Tere O’Connor see http://www.tereoconnordance.org/

Read Deborah Jowitt’s review of Rammed Earth here.