Tina Croll & Company
Tina Croll & Company
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Contact: Tina Croll, Director (212) 627-9407
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BALKAN DREAMS
Tina Croll’s evening-length work, Balkan Dreams defies concert dance’s traditional boundaries. This World Premiere is a collaboration with several groups of musicians, notably Zlatne Uste, a 12-piece Balkan Brass Band. The band Izgori will join with Macedonian singers and musicians playing gajda, kaval, and tupan. Other music features the fabulous tambura playing of Adam Good. Eight modern dancers will be joined by a group of mad male Balkan dancers, and will explore a variety of moods and energies found in this traditional music of Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Rumania. The dances are often rituals – some wild and playful, some slow and stately, some harsh and driven, others gentle, almost trance-like. Improvisation is traditional in Balkan music, and the dancing will also include sections of wild improvisation and shameless abandon. The rich inspiration that Croll has found in Balkan music has resulted in a body of innovative and fresh, rhythmically complex, high-energy work. With such a blend of folk and contemporary styles, the choreography delivers unsuspected twists of rhythm, space and time.
“Croll invents movement that stretches our ideas of what is kinetically
possible, and then ties this movement to music in such a sophisticated
manner….She keeps a viewer in suspense.” (Kate Mattingly, Washington
Square News)
Balkan Dreams was premiered at Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church in December 2002.
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