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Jack Wright, (617) 598-3212, jw@celebrityseries.org High-resolution photos: http://www.celebrityseries.org/Photo_Galleries/802-SCurran_Gallery.htm CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON’S 2007-2008 DANCE SERIES BEGINS WITH Engagement Features the World Premiere of Curran’s New Work, Social Discourse (BOSTON)—Celebrity Series of Boston, Martha H. Jones, President and Executive Director, presents the Seán Curran Company at the Tsai Performance Center on Friday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, October 27 at 8:00 p.m.; and Sunday, October 28 at 3:00 p.m. Currently celebrating its tenth season, the Seán Curran Company’s engagement launches the Celebrity Series’ 2007-2008 Dance Series and features the world premiere of Mr. Curran’s newest work, Social Discourse. The 2007-2008 Dance Series is sponsored by The Little Family Foundation and Emerson College. The Celebrity Series of Boston presented the Seán Curran Company’s last appearance in Boston in January 2005. October’s engagement marks the company’s third Celebrity Series appearance since its debut in 2003. In 1997, after two seasons at New York City’s Danspace Project where the dancers were paid with subway tokens, Seán Curran decided it was time to grow up organizationally, to pay the dancers in real money, and to create the Seán Curran Company. The company has since toured throughout the United States, and performed internationally at several European festivals. In 1997 the company received its first commission from Celebrate Brooklyn for the piece Folk Dance For the Future. Until then Mr. Curran, who took traditional Irish step dancing lessons as a child, had resisted using his Irish voice in his choreography. Folk Dance for the Future marked the beginning of Mr. Curran’s incorporation of his Irish background into his works. Other New York appearances soon followed the Celebrate Brooklyn performance, including performances at Dance Theater Workshop, The Joyce Theater, and The New Victory Theater. The company has performed twice at Jacob’s Pillow, most recently in 2004 for the premiere of Art/Song/Dance—a collaboration between Mr. Curran and Broadway composer Ricky Ian Gordon. In 2005, the Seán Curran Company premiered Aria, a work combining recorded apologies with opera arias by Handel. Artistic Director Seán Curran’s dance training began with traditional Irish step dancing during his childhood in Boston. Mr. Curran went on to become a leading dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and receive a New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for his performance in Secret Pastures. A graduate and guest faculty member of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Mr. Curran has also taught extensively at the American Dance Festival, Harvard Summer Dance Center, Bates Dance Festival, and the Boston Conservatory of Music. He was an original member of the New York City cast of the Off-Broadway percussion extravaganza Stomp, and has performed his solo evening of dances at venues throughout the United States, as well as in Sweden and France. Current and recent projects for Mr. Curran include productions of Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for The Shakespeare Theater; the twentieth anniversary production of Nixon in China and Street Scene at Opera Theater of St. Louis; New York City Opera productions of L’Etoile, Alcina, Turandot, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Capriccio, and Acis and Galetea; the Playwrights Horizons’ production of My Life with Albertine; and Shakespeare in the Park’s As You Like It. He recently made his Metropolitan Opera debut choreographing Romeo and Juliette. Mr. Curran’s work has appeared on Broadway in James Joyce’s The Dead for Playwrights Horizons and The Rivals at the Lincoln Center Theater. He has also created works for Trinity Irish Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre’s Studio Company, Denmark’s Upper Cut Company, Sweden’s Skänes Dance Theater, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Ririe Woodbury Dance Theater, and Dance Alloy, as well as for numerous college and university dance departments. Irish American Magazine selected Mr. Curran as one of its “Top 100” in the year 2000, and he was awarded a Choreographer’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2002. The Seán Curran Company’s engagement is the first in a series of six events that comprise the Celebrity Series of Boston’s 2007-2008 Dance Series. The series also includes: the Paul Taylor Dance Company (November 30-December 2 at The Shubert Theatre), Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (February 7-10 at The Wang Theatre), Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal featuring Ohad Naharin’s Minus One (March 28-30 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre), the Black Grace Dance Company (April 17 and 18 at the Tsai Performance Center), and the Mark Morris Dance Group with the Orchestra and Chorus of Emmanuel Music featuring Dido and Aneas (May 28-June 1 at the Cutler Majestic Theatre). Program Information: All choreography by Seán Curran except where noted. Repertory for Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27: Average Tragedy (1997) Aria/Apology (2005) Social Discourse (2007) – World Premiere Repertory for Sunday, October 28: Amadinda Dances (2003) Social Discourse (2007) – World Premiere Ticketing Information: About Celebrity Series of Boston # # # |
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