Folk purists might have objected to the generalized glides, leaps and acrobatics, spiced with a bit of tapping, in the 18-piece program presented by the troupe on Saturday afternoon.
One of the festival's most hilarious pieces (Program B) -- it's, yes, Moby Dick in space.
Doing this will give you great piece of mind while programming and using your script.
There is just one piece per program, though the players typically discuss the music in advance.
Besides Mr. Bermel's piece, the program includes Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.
"It does not require that every last piece of program be eradicated but simply that progress has been made".
But a piece of program music must have a convincing musical structure of its own, as Julia Wolfe's restless "Cruel Sister" does.
It was based on a poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel and was the first piece of program music written for such an ensemble.
The piece, the program told us, was inspired by "the Nazca Lines in Peru whose mysterious origins and meaning have never been understood".
The pieces on Program B showed Cedar Lake's choreographic range, and the first piece, "Simply Marvel," by the Dutch choreographer Regina van Berkel, highlighted the dancers' technical gifts.
Isn't that a great piece of programming?
