Company C Contemporary Ballet's Spring Program Features Two World Premieres by Maurice Causey and Charles Moulton, Now thru 5/11

Two world premieres by Maurice Causey and Charles Moulton headline the spring program of Company C Contemporary Ballet today, April 25-May 11 at ODC Theater in San Francisco and the Lesher Theater in Walnut Creek. The 12-year-old Company will close its 2014 season with a program featuring the world premiere of a new ballet by Maurice Causey (title to be announced) and the world premiere of Charles Moulton'sNew Country along with reprises of Charles Anderson's What's Behind Door #3 (which received its premiere on the Company C gala program in February, 2014), excerpts from Anderson's Aposiopesis and excerpts from Patrick Corbin's Partly Cloudy. [Editor note: the program has changed since originally announced in August, 2013]. Complete program details are listed below. For more information, visit www.companycballet.org .

Company C Contemporary Ballet 2014 Spring Program

Aposiopesis (excerpts - 3rd & 4th Movements) Choreography by Charles Anderson Music by Michael Nyman

What's Behind Door #3 Choreography by Charles Anderson Music by Philip K. Bimstein

Maurice Causey (world premiere--title to be announced) Music by Gabriel Prokofiev

New Country (world premiere) Choreography by Charles Moulton Music by Chris Thile and the Punch Brothers

Partly Cloudy (excerpts) Choreography by Patrick Corbin Music by Marsha Groethe

Maurice Causey's slick, sleek and hard-edged Ominous Rumblings of Discontent was a hit of Company C's 2011 season. The European dance-maker returns with a new ballet created especially for the Company set to a score by Gabriel Prokofiev, grandson of the legendary Russian composer, Sergei Prokofiev. Movement magician Charles Moulton will also create a new work for the program. Completing a trio of new works will be the world premiere of What's Behind Door #3 by Charles Anderson that takes as inspiration a creative musical score that samples doors opening, closing, creaking and swinging and a set of three doors the dancers use as inventive props. Rounding out the program and demonstrating the range of Company C artists' technique and performance mettle include excerpts from Anderson's Aposiopesis, and Company C audience favorite Patrick Corbin returns with his dizzyingly athletic Partly Cloudy Suite, set to music by Marsha Groethe.

Venues, Dates, Times:

ODC THEATER

3153 17th Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, April 26 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Thursday, May 1 at 8 p.m.

Friday, May 2 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 3 at 8 p.m.

Box Office:

ODC Theater

3153 17th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

www.odctheater.org

415/863-6606

Tickets: $25, $38, $48

LESHER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 8 p.m.

Friday, May 9, 2014 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, May 10 at 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 11 at 1 p.m.

Box Office: Lesher Center for the Arts

1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596

www.lesherartscenter.org

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