Tom Gold Dance Announces A Program And Artist Update For 2019 Spring Season

Tom Gold Dance will present the World Premiere of Tom Gold Dance Founder and Director Tom Gold's Significant Strangers to selections from Bernstein's Anniversaries for solo piano during its annual spring season, Wednesday, April 3 and Thursday, April 4, 2019 at The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College. Also on the program are the New York City Premiere of Gold's Blind Revelry to Stephen Sondheim's rarely heard Concertino for two pianos, and a revival of Gold's Counterpoint.

Dancers Michael Sean Breeden, Breanne Coughlin, Barton Cowperthwaite, Kaila Feldpausch, Michael Holden, Amy Holihan, Evelyn Kocak and Abigail Mentzer, as well as pianists Joseph Liccardo and Adam Marks are scheduled to perform. Accompanying both Significant Strangers and Blind Revelry, Mr. Liccardo will be making his third appearance with the Company. Mr. Marks, the second pianist on Blind Revelry, performed in the World Premiere of this work with the New York Theatre Ballet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of Boston in May 2018. Learn more about all of the participating artists at tomgolddance.org/company/artists.

For Significant Strangers, Gold has selected pieces from each of the four groups of Anniversaries, composed between 1942 and 1988 honor some of the many individuals who played pivotal roles in Bernstein's life. The Anniversary to Stephen Sondheim is included in Significant Strangers, which marks the first time Gold has choreographed to the music of Bernstein.

A contemporary reimaging of the chance encounter of Dionysus and Ariadne on the island of Naxos, Blind Revelry was created in connection with a program commemorating the restoration of the Gardner's famed Farnese Sarcophagus. Blind Revelry is set to Concertino for two pianos, composed by Sondheim in 1949 while he was a student at Williams College, but never performed publicly until 2001, when it was rediscovered and presented as an orchestral arrangement. For Blind Revelry, Gold uses the original two-piano version.

Counterpoint, a pas de deux in four movements to Reich's New York Counterpoint and Nagoya Marimbas, premiered in 2017 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre.

Tickets, $42, $30, and $22, are on sale as of Monday, February 4 at 12:00PM, and are available for purchase online at tomgolddance.org/kaye19, by phone at (212) 772-4448, or in person at 68th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues, 12-7:00pm Monday through Friday. Student tickets are $10 student with valid ID, in person only.