Catherine Tharin Dance to Appear at Soaking WET, 2/16-19 at West End Theater

The Soaking WET dance series, curated by David Parker and Jeff Kazin, will present Catherine Tharin Dance in a program titled "You Who Arrived" - 5 dances, 2 premieres by Tharin. The dances that make up the full evening work are Still Center, with live music by composer John King, Dark Moons,You Who Arrived (premiere), History Doesn't End (premiere), and A Natural History, with all segments linked in their desire to reveal quiet truths.

"The dances come from the language of my body, as well as from observations of the movements and relationships of my dancers," notes choreographer Tharin. "From this material the dancers and I build movement vocabulary and over time we come to speak the same tongue. The work expresses intimacy with the self and others, the immediate present and close past. There is a sense of continuum reaching back and moving forward. Evoked are small secret delights and unspoken fears, the immediacy of affection, fondness, attachment, and reliance."

You Who Arrived (premiere)
composer: Richie Greene
poetry: Rilke

History Doesn't End (premiere)
composer: Scott Wollschleger's "Brontal Symmetry"

Still Center
composers: John Cage, John King

Dark Moons
composer: John Cage

A Natural History

composer: Richard Carrick
Costumes by Sue Julien.

CATHERINE THARIN was a soloist with the ERick Hawkins Dance Company from 1988 to 1994, originating roles and touring nationally and internationally with the Company. She spent 20 years at Iona College, where she distinguished herself as a lecturer, teacher of choreography, dance history, Hawkins dance technique, and somatics, as well as serving as director of the Iona College Dance Ensemble. Ms. Tharin is currently Curator at 92Y Harkness Dance Center, where she has programmed hundreds of choreographers, composers, dancers, musicians, set designers, and more. As a choreographer, one of her latest works, A Natural History, seen on the Soaking WET series, was described by Martha Sherman as "a reverie of sisterhood, where the duets and trios have a sweet interconnected energy, and the solos focus on a powerfully feminine strength and fullness....Tharin herself is an elegant mover." (danceviewtimes, 2015)

February 16-18 at 7:30 PM, February 19 at 2 PM
West End Theater, 263 West 86th Street (2nd floor of the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew)
Tickets: $20
Reservations: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2805878 ; or 800.838.3006
Dancers: Esme Boyce, Jenny Levy, YoungHoon Oh, Susan Rainey

Guest Musician/Composer: John King

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