Pearson Widrig Dance Theater

Repertory

•	Company Works

	–	Unmoored (Love Letters to New Orleans)
	–	Thaw
	–	The Return of Lot’s Wife
	–	HereAfter
	–	Ordinary Festivals

•	Solos & Duets

•	Site-Specific/ Site-Adaptive

•	Community Performance Projects

•	Video Works

•	Lecture Demonstrations

•	Young People’s Concerts

•	Repertory List 1986-2007

When the Holy Thaws

“And God is always there, if you feel wounded. He kneels over this earth like a divine medic, and His love thaws the holy in us.”

St. Theresa of Avila

“A book must be the
axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

Franz Kafka

Thaw • Tom Caravaglia

“The dance – an ingenious meld of movies and movement, motion and stillness, glassy white and tender green, silly props and serious ideas – keeps opening up in your mind long after the stage goes dark.”

Metroland. Albany, NY

• Thaw, a 60-minute ice/light/video dance, is an unlikely symphonic investigation of elemental encounters under increasingly curious circumstances. Inspired by the first crack of winter ice breaking up on a frozen shore, Thaw “suggests a desire to shatter surfaces and release the vital reality trapped within.” (Eva Yaa Asantewa, Village Voice critic) Rich in violent beauty and deep quiet, Thaw evolves into a kinetic poem, a love letter to time. Videos created by Patrik Widrig from documentary film footage of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctica voyage and the last ice harvests in Maine.

• See Video Excerpt

Premiere • 92on42: The 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Project at The Duke on 42nd Street, March 16-20, 2005

“Fierce and unpredictable.”

Dance Magazine

“Thaw is like a slow exhale.”

The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, NY


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