Pearson Widrig Dance Theater

Repertory

•	Company Works

•	Solos & Duets

	–	Sayonara, Dear
	–	Partners Who Touch, Partners Who Don’t Touch
	–	Heimweh (homesick)
	–	Journal Entries
	–	Dr. Pearson’s Guide Loss and Fear
	–	Be Careful What You Wish For
	–	Alpsegen
	–	Muezzin

•	Site-Specific/ Site-Adaptive

•	Community Performance Projects

•	Video Works

•	Lecture Demonstrations

•	Young People’s Concerts

•	Repertory List 1986-2007

Character Generators

“Daredevils of the Heart.”

Dance Magazine

• Sayonara, Dear is an elegantly eccentric dance/video drama reflecting on states of being at the edges of existence. Through continually shifting kinetic designs drawn from silent movies as well as from the orientalist strains in early modern dance, images of endless loss and longing are layered with Ms. Pearson's new monologue of her 88-year old mother's sexual attraction to her male caregiver. Jamie James Wenger’s Japanese chiyogami video (designed in collaboration with Pearson and Widrig) sets a vivid environment for the choreography, intensifying the exploration of what is hidden and what is revealed.

Choreography, Text, Performance, Set Design by • Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig
Original Sound Score • Karinne Keithley
Video Design • Jamie James Wenger, in collaboration with Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig
Costume Design by • Tzveta Kassabova

Preview • The Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, New York City, April 10-12, 2008

Funding Credits • Created and performed with the generous support provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Harkness and Sequoia Foundations, Jon Wiener, and the Friends of PWDT.

Dona Ann McAdams

“They dance together as if all
dances began and ended in bed.”

The Village Voice

• A duet about the dynamics of connection and separation; the meeting of two cultures, two languages, two people, dance and performance art, silence and speech, aggression and tenderness.

• See Video Excerpt

• Music by Chopin, Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, The Heavenly Gospel Singers, Jimmy McHugh

Premiere • Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, January 1988

Tour Highlights • Joyce Theater • Rote Fabrik/Switzerland • Stadttheater St. Gallen/Switzerland • Belluard Bollwerk Festival/Switzerland • XI Festival Internacional de Danza/Peru • Kyoto Arts Center/Japan • Chang Mu Arts Center/South Korea • Darpana Academy/India • Teatro Firkas/Greece • P.S. 122/New York City • Bates Dance Festival • Posthof International Festival/Austria

Nancy Mellgren

“How much they - and we, too -
relish the immediacy of any
destructiveness we can wreak
short of the fatal.”

The Village Voice

• In Heimweh (homesick) they are catapulted against themselves and each other as the internalized forces of Catholicism and family traditions reign supreme.

• See Video Excerpt

• Music by Odetta, Ambrosian Junior Choir, Public Enemy, Louis Armstrong, James Brown

Premiere • Swiss Dance Festival, May 1989

Tour Highlights • Rote Fabrik, Switzerland • Stadttheater St. Gallen, Switzerland • Belluard Bollwerk Festival, Switzerland • Chang Mu Arts Center, South Korea • Darpana Academy, Ahmedabad, India • Teatro Firkas, Crete, Greece • P.S. 122, New York City • Bates Dance Festival • Posthof International Festival/Austria

• Commissioned by the Swiss Insitute

James Murphy

“Terrific comedy, unassuming,
hilariously earnest and poignant.”

The New York Times

• “Details journeys across landscapes literal and psychic. It seems to be exploring every avenue of a new neighborhood, the common places and the strange.” The Village Voice

• Choreography, Text, Performance by Sara Pearson + Patrik Widrig

Premiere • ChoreoSpace / Nikolais Louis Foundation, New York City, 1987

Tour Highlights • Mayfest International Festival, Glasgow, Scotland • Dance Theater Workshop, NYC • Rutgers University • Teatro Firkas, Crete, Greece


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