Presented by SFIAF and AXIS Dance Company
AXIS Dance Company
Full of Words (2011, San Francisco Premiere)
- When
- Event has passed (Sat May 12, 2012 - Sun May 13, 2012)
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- Dance, Modern Dance
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AXIS Dance CompanyFull of Words (2011, San Francisco Premiere)
Presented by SFIAF and AXIS Dance Company
AXIS Dance Company is the nation’s leading ensemble of dancers with and without disabilities. They are a jewel of contemporary dance and disability culture. Amongst their many honors, AXIS has garnered seven Isadora Duncan Dance awards and was recently featured to great acclaim on the nationally broadcast television show So You Think You Can Dance. Sid Smith of The Chicago Tribune said of AXIS following their performance at the Auditorium Theater this past Fall:
If art is supposed to change how we think, how we view the world, then credit AXIS Dance Company for a blazing artistic vision."
In 2011, AXIS commissioned UK choreographer Marc Brew to create Full of Words, which had its world premiere at the Malonga Center in Oakland last Fall. Judith Smith, AXIS’ Artistic Director had been following Marc’s career since he became disabled in 1998 in a car accident while on tour with a ballet company in South Africa. She sought to commission a piece by Brew because of the freshness and ingenuity of his work.
In Full of Words, Brew created duets/conversations for dancers in everyday settings, beginning with the only spoken sentence in the entire piece, "You say a word, I say a word, and we will make a sentence." The rest of the dialogue is performed by the dancers as they create their own specific romantic conversations.
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