• This multi-sensory choreographic installation for 8-88 performers, 24 haystacks, 10 fans, 5 sprinklers, 4 TV/VCR’s, and 2,000 ice cubes, creates images full of mystery and humor. With surprise after surprise, the ordinary becomes extraordinary and beauty is redefined. What at first appears out of place falls into place in exhilarating shifts of perception.

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Tour Highlights • Wave Hill, Bronx, NY • Gilsland Farm Audubon Sanctuary, Falmouth, ME • Hopkins Center / Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Commissioned by • the Bates Dance Festival (1997), Dancing in the Streets and Wave Hill (2001; additional funding provided by NYSCA and the Harkness Foundation), Hopkins Center / Dartmouth College (2003)

• A dancetheater piece for 300 oranges, 6-16 performers, and 2 knives that “pushes the rituals of a traditional community over the edge into mysterious, subversive, and often funny acts.” (The Village Voice) and has been seen by over 15,000 people throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America.

• Set to the enchanting folk music of pre-war Italy, the 55-minute work explodes with images both wildly kinetic, deeply moving, and delightfully odd.

Premiere • P.S. 122, New York City, April 1995

Tour Highlights • Kennedy Center Millennium Stage • Joyce Theater • 9-city tour of Switzerland • Festival Internacional de Danza, Lima, Peru • Woking Dance Umbrella, England • Bates Dance Festival • Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center • Maine Festival • Grace Street Theater, Richmond, VA • Redfern Arts Center, Keene, NH • Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors • Central Park SummerStage

Commissioned by • P.S. 122 with funds from the Jerome Foundation, the Harkness Foundation, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, and the Union Bank of Switzerland.

• “ Much of Pearson's dance is spent heart and hands on the ground, as if to lay pulse to pulse. There is a sense of rolling room and open air. There's a memory of the playground, of group effort and shifting affinities, of empty fields lengthening in the distance. Andy Teirstein's music, ghostly bagpipes and tectonic drones, makes that distance a dusky, mystical one.” The Village Voice

• Original music by Andy Teirstein

Premiere • Bethesda Terrace, Central Park, NYC, 1989

• Commissioned by Dancing in the Streets