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5/16 FRI 8:10PM
5/17 SAT 12:40PM
5/18 SUN 3:40PM
5/19 MON 9:50PM
5/22 THU 9:50PM
5/23 FRI 6:00PM
5/24 SAT 3:50PM
What does it mean to move?...to be moved? Film and dance collide on stage as directors of two Florida dance companies collaborate to take you on this provocative journey.

Associate Artistic Director of Florida Dance Theatre, Ferdinand DeJesus and Director of CineDance Jazz Dance, Casey Saxon, team up with their dancers to collaborate on MOVE, a show that explores movement in our lives. What does it mean to move?...to be moved?...physically, emotionally, spiritually.

Join us on this touching, thought provoking, entertaining and sometimes flip and funny journey.

Saxon has been described by Diane Hubbard Burnes as one of the area's more persistent and prolific contemporary choreographers, while her dancers have been described as fine and fearless. DeJesus is praised for his thought-provoking and dynamic works that showcase the virtuosity of his dancers.

Joining the choreographers is a cast of 11, including Mary Clymene Wilkins, Nicole Yezzi, Mila Makarova and Kassi Abreu.

Collaboration is the engine of change...so MOVE!

 

 
 

"Casey Saxon has emerged as one of the more persistent and prolific of Central Florida's several contemporary dance choreographers."
-Diane Hubbard Burnes, Orlando, FL

"CineDance...a fusion of classicism, film and funk."
-Seth Kubersky, Orlando Weekly

"Ferdinand DeJesus is praised for his dynamic and thought-provoking works that showcase the virtuosity of his dancers."

"Ferdinand de Jesus' finely hewn "Transport" (is) to compelling music by Phillip Glass. In it two couples wait for a train; one, dressed in black and sitting separately, appears in mourning; the other, sharply dressed and modern, sit together but seem just as distant. They rise and dance, driven forward by the music, but find little comfort in one another or the journey."
-Diane Hubbard Burnes, Orlando Sentinel

"CineDance Artistic Director Casey Saxon's Some Will See takes music by Sitar Ritual in a primal attitude and matches it with hard edged dancing, backed by a video that lets us see the moves from a different perspective sometimes from above, sometimes in canon with the live dancers. Very effective. And she leaves us with a striking image of a dancer reaching for the light."
-Diance Hubbard Burnes, Orlando Sentinel

"Ferdinand DeJesus' choreography drew fine performances from DeJesus, Kassi Abreu, Nick Bass, Kimberly Spencer Parks and Rebecca Yeager."
-Diane Hubbard Burnes, Orlando Sentinel

"Take six incredibly dynamic dancers, mix with a steady diet of fearful-frenetic-angry choreography, and you get a show that is frightening in its intensity; like one long hot flash...fine and fearless dancers."
-Diane Hubbard Burnes, Orlando Sentinel

"What a collection of wild shows from all over the country. Bet some of the hottest hits will include CineDance Jazz Dance, the Orlando Gay Chorus and Varietease."
-Pam Harbough, Florida Today

"It's good to see Saxon collaborating with Florida Dance Theatre's Freddie DeJesus. The two companies will perform on a joint Fringe Festival program in May. Preview peeks we got of A Pleasant Surprise! (intriguing counterpoint for a soloist and group) and Metropolitan Glide (flip and funny) looked like these dances might take both choreographers into new territory. Fortunately for Orlando dance lovers long starved for contemporary work, there will be more to come."
-Diane Hubbard Burnes, Orlando Sentinel


Public URL: http://orlandofringe.org/node/107 ( Use this to promote this show! )