Complexions Contemporary Ballet Headed to Harris Center, 10/24-25

Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden, along with their New York City-based company of dance thoroughbreds have awakened audiences around the world to a new, exciting genre that combines the best of athleticism, lyricism, and technical training and experience. Now America's original multi-cultural Dance Company brings its passion to Harris Center/Three Stages.

It is artistic directors/founders Richardson and Rhoden's lifelong appreciation for the artistic and aesthetic appeal of the multicultural that forms the cornerstone of Complexions Contemporary Ballet's singular approach to reinventing dance. Founded by the two former Alvin Ailey members in 1994, Complexions' groundbreaking mix of methods, styles, cultures has created an entirely new and exciting vision of human movement over the past years.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet will perform on Thursday, October 24, 2013; 7:30 pm and Friday, October 25, 2013; 8 pm. Tickets are priced at $21-$34; Premium $45;

Students with ID $12. Tickets are available online at www.harriscenter.net or from Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from 10 am to 6 pm, Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street.

The company's foremost innovation is that dance should be about removing boundaries, not reinforcing them. Whether it be the limiting traditions of a single style, period, venue, or culture, Complexions transcends them all, creating an open, continually evolving form of dance that reflects the movement of our world-and all its constituent cultures-as an interrelated whole.

Rhoden and Richardson's unique career paths have paved the way for them to re-define dance. "Hailed as two of the greatest virtuosos ever to emerge from Ailey land" (The New York Times). Neither has ever been comfortable with his art being placed in a box. Instead, from E! to PBS to VH1, from Cirque de Soleil to the Joffrey Ballet, the two have allowed the transformative power of their art to flow freely throughout the entertainment world-their creative vision restricted by nothing but the limits of the human body itself.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet has received numerous awards including the New York Times "Critics Choice" Award. It has appeared throughout the US, at major European dance festivals, Korea, and Australia.

In the years since its inception, the company has born witness to a world that is becoming more fluid, more changeable, and more culturally interconnected than ever before-in other words, a world that is becoming more and more like Complexions itself.

Originally named Three Stages at Folsom Lake College in 2011, the facility has been renamed to honor Brice Harris, Chancellor Emeritus of the Los Rios Community College District, for his many contributions to the capital region, including the vision and leadership he provided in opening this regional arts center. Harris Center for the Arts at Folsom Lake College presents touring artists from around the world; partners with the best regional arts organizations, and supports productions by FLC students and faculty.

The Harris Center is a $50 million facility built with a combination of state, regional, local and private funds. Harris Center has three intimate theaters, an art gallery, a recording studio, elegant teaching spaces, plenty of safe parking and all the other amenities of a state-of-the-art performing arts venue.

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