Recordings of them are a key element of the dance capsules the foundation is creating for its preservation initiative.
To prepare for the workshop, Harper and Freebury studied the archival materials kept in one of the trust's "Dance Capsules," an online archive of notes, photographs, performance videos, production data, and interviews.
Still, the Merce Cunningham Trust is putting its faith in what it calls digital Dance Capsules; that plan, unveiled shortly before Cunningham died in July, has spurred discussion among other companies.
That distinction, which is clear on paper, blurs in practice — and nowhere more so than in the duties of Lent, who, as an outgrowth of her licensing responsibilities for the foundation, is also helping to edit and funnel data into "dance capsules" that will be available to ensembles that license the pieces in the future.
In this comeback phase (the company closes at the Joyce Theater with a 2 P.M. matinee today) he presents a capsule introduction to Spanish dance.
Each glistening globe -- a dance of darkness and light, a tiny capsule whose pop releases an ocean -- could be the last.
Thus, in "The Other Paris," he appears to offer a catalog, taking us through capsule histories of bars and dance halls, bohemia, prostitution and street crime.
At center-stage, Raabe & Co's authentic time capsule renditions of the sophisticated dance and film music that charmed American and European movie and cabaret goers in the 1920s and 1930s.
"Same Place" is a cheerful time capsule that begins with "The Hustle," the 1975 dance hit of the moment, attached to a disco version of "Where or When".
Raabe and his imported ensemble are a musical time capsule, an absolutely authentic reproducer of the sophisticated dance and film music so beloved from the 1920ss and 1930s on.
