KEIGWIN + COMPANY Announce Summer 2011 Tour

KEIGWIN + COMPANY will launch "K + C Extended," a summer 2011 tour of large-scale works, beginning with performances at the renowned Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, June 22 - 26. The tour will include performances at other major dance festivals across the country, including Green Box Arts Festival in Colorado, Central Park SummerStage in NYC and Vineyard Arts Project in Massachusetts.

The Summer 2011 Tour Schedule:

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival - June 22 - 26, 2011
Jacob's Pillow marks the launch of K+C Extended - a tour of the Company's larger scale works including Runaway (2008) and Megalopolis (2009), which will be performed outside of NYC for the first time.

Green Box Arts Festival - June 27 - July 3, 2011
Green Box Arts Festival is a multi-disciplinary arts festival in Green Mountain Falls, CO, founded by Christian Keesee. K+C will present a one-week creative residency, during which rehearsals are free and open to the public, culminating in an informal public performance.

Central Park SummerStage - July 23, 2011
K+C will make its SummerStage debut with a restaging of the site-specific Bolero NYC (2007), a celebration of city life featuring a cast of 50. The program also includes Megalopolis, set to music by M.I.A. and Steve Reich, and Love Songs (2006).

Vineyard Arts Project - August 30 - September 6, 2011
The Company will use this one week creative residency to develop a new work scheduled to premiere at the Works & Process at the Guggenheim series in NYC.

The 2011-12 Season continues:

Works & Process at the Guggenheim - October 30th - 31st, 2011
K+C will present the world premiere of Balloon Dance in Oct. 201l, marking the company's return following its acclaimed 2009 engagement and the commission of Sidewalk. The piece will feature sculptor Jason Hackenwerth's set design, using Hackenwerth's whimsical, otherworldly balloon designs as an inspirational launching point, with an original score by Adam Crystal. Other works on the program will include Sidewalk and Love Songs.

Royal Ballet of New Zealand - February 2012
Larry Keigwin has been commissioned to create a new world premiere piece.

The Kennedy Center (Eisenhower Theater) - March 2-3, 2012. The K+C Extended tour will feature
12 dancers performing Runaway, Megalopolis, Bird Watching (2010) and Love Songs.

Larry Keigwin is artistic director of KEIGWIN + COMPANY, founded in 2003 to create and share provocative, witty and engaging dances. Combining physicality with theatricality, K+C's electrifying brand of contemporary dance samples a variety of mediums and fuses art with entertainment. K+C has performed at The Kennedy Center, The Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow, American Dance Festival and more. Keigwin has created 17 dances, including the large-scale choreographic event Bolero and recent acclaimed works such as Dark Habits (2010), Runaway (2008), the site-specific Sidewalk (2009) and Bird Watching (2010). Now a centerpiece of K+C's outreach work, Bolero incorporates a cast of community members and dancers into a tableau of a specific demographic or geographical region. Based on the success of Bolero ADF (2007) and Bolero NYC (2007/2009), K+C has developed Bolero Colorado, Bolero Santa Barbara, Bolero Suburbia and most recently, Bolero Akron.

In addition to his work with K+C, Larry Keigwin is currently choreographing the world premiere musical, Tales of the City, at ACT in San Francisco, and will choreograph the revival of Rent, scheduled to open off-Broadway in July. His recent commissions include Works & Process at the Guggenheim, The Juilliard School, The New York City Ballet's Choreographic Institute and The Martha Graham Dance Company, among many others. Keigwin was named the Vail International Dance Festival's first artist in residence, during which time he created and premiered a new work with four of ballet's most prominent stars. He most recently staged the opening event of Fashion Week: "Fashion's Night Out: The Show," which was produced by Vogue and featured over 150 of the industry's top models strutting in formation around the fountain and plaza at Lincoln Center.

In 2004, Dance Magazine named Keigwin in their annual list of "25 To Watch." Keigwin's other choreographic credits include work with the pop band Fischerspooner, comedian Murray Hill, and as an associate choreographer for both The Radio City Rockettes and the Off-Broadway musical The Wild Party. Keigwin has also created Keigwin Kabaret, a fusion of modern dance, vaudeville, and burlesque presented by The Public Theater at Joe's Pub and by Symphony Space. He is a co-founder of the Green Box Arts Festival in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, a multi-disciplinary festival designed to increase cultural opportunities in the region, as well as provide creative residencies to young, emerging choreographers.

For more information on KEIGWIN + COMPANY, visit http://www.keigwinandcompany.com

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