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

Nancy Mellgren

“A true comedienne - pithy,
winsome, and able to deliver
with right-on timing.”

Dance Magazine

• In Dr. Pearson ... Sara remembers losing it, him, her, that!

• See Video Excerpt

• Choreography, Text, Performance by Sara Pearson

Premiere • Joyce Theater Altogether Different Festival, January 1997

Tour Highlights • London Dance Umbrella • Bates Dance Festival • Symphony Space, NYC

• Commissioned by the 1997 Altogether Different Fund for New Works, sponsored by The Joyce Theater Foundation, with support provided by the Greenwall Foundation, the Overbrook Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Additional funding provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, the Harkness Foundation, and the Sequoia Foundation.

Nancy Mellgren

“Tough with a fey streak,
maybe gifted with strange
powers.”

The Village Voice

• In Be Careful What You Wish For, Pearson excavates levels of desire to dig beneath the surface of what one thinks one wants, and examines what was left undone from her earlier solo, Dr. Pearson’s Guide to Loss and Fear.

• Choreography, Text, Performance by Sara Pearson

Premiere • Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, NYC, October 1998

• Commissioned by the Danspace Project's 1998-99 Commissioning Initiative with funds provided by the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. Additional support provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Sequoia Foundation.


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