Complexions Contemporary Ballet Returns To Detroit Music Hall 06/17
It's that time once again as Music Hall once again presents one of the most influential and innovative Dance Companies in America, Complexions Contemporary Ballet-Sunday, Jun 17 at 4PM on the Main Stage, which will close out The Detroit Music Weekend celebration.
Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company under founder Desmond Richardson and Dwight Rhoden has become one of the most recognized and respected performing arts brands in the world. This New York City based company will be sure to excite audiences with their athleticism, lyricism, and technical virtuoso.
Their deep connection with Music Hall stretches almost a decade, as we have perennially closed our season with this now iconic Dance Company. Two years ago, Music Hall commissioned Complexions most famous offering, "Star Dust" a Tribute To David Bowie which premiered here at Music Hall in June of 2016 and has since sold out everywhere it's been performed.
This year Complexions will al present its repertory piece Ballad Unto..., a work about unrequited love set to Johann Sebastian Bach's "Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue" and "Partita #2 and Gutter Glitter.
Complexions was founded in 1994 by Master Choreographer Dwight Rhoden and the legendary Desmond Richardson with a singular approach to reinventing dance through a groundbreaking mix of methods, styles and cultures. Today, Complexions represents one of the most recognized and respected performing arts brands in the World. Having presented an entirely new and exciting vision of human movement on 5-continents, over 20-countries, to over 20-million television viewers and to well over 300,000 people in live audiences, Complexions is poised to continue its mission of bring unity to the world one dance at a time.
View a clip of Complexions "StarDust" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_H5XbqA8c
Complexions has received numerous awards including The New York Times Critics' Choice Award. It has appeared throughout the US, including the Joyce Theater/NY, Lincoln Center/NY, Brooklyn Academy Of Music/NY, Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts/New Orleans, Paramount Theatre/Seattle, The Music Center/Los Angeles, Winspear Opera House/Dallas, Cutler Majestic Theater/Boston, New Victory Theater/NY, and Music Hall/Detroit, The Bolshoi Theater, The Kremlin, The Mikhailovsky Theater, Melbourne Arts Center, and will make it's debut at the Kennedy Center in 2017, as a part of Ballet Across America.
Tickets: $50 / $40 / $30 and available at Music Hall Box Office or www.ticketmaster.com
Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts
350 Madison Avenue
Detroit, MI 48226
313-887-8501
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