MDT Presents Enduring Prescience At The Lab Theater 10/15-24

Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) presents Enduring Prescience, a two-weekend, two-program fall dance festival to kick off its 2010-2011 performance season at the Lab Theater October 15th-24th. This Minnesota dance event offers a double program with a variety of work. Enduring Prescience will feature MDT repertory pieces alongside one local premiere and two world premieres.

Enduring Prescience, Program A, which runs October 15th - 17th presents new work by New York-based choreographer Emery LeCrone, From Here to Here. Ms. LeCrone has compiled and arranged music from Xerophonics to sounds of the work place to Ray Charles for her new piece. The New York Times praises the work of this up-and-coming artist, calling her choreography "a delightful whole, exploring innovative partnering as well as the ways spinning full-throttle movement can echo and incorporate the planes of space around it." Ms. LeCrone is a 2006 graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts.

Enduring Prescience, Program B, October 21st - 24th features company dancer Justin Leaf in the premiere of his second work for MDT, Some Goddess in Another Body. Mr. Leaf has commissioned a piece for piano by New York composer Brad Crane.
The 2009 McKnight Fellowship recipient describes the motivation behind the piece as, "exploring the timeless nature of mythologies."

Both programs will feature two works by the renowned choreographer Elisa Monte, Tears Rolling, performed by MDT in 2003 and White Dragon, an MDT premiere. Ms. Monte has gained international acclaim through her company and has created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Teatro La Scala Ballet and the Batsheva Dance Company of Israel.

Other MDT repertory will be founder Loyce Houlton's Boccherini Dances, 293.6 to Webern's Five Movements Opus 5, artistic director Lise Houlton's Sidetracks to the ballads of Rickie Lee Jones and an excerpt from Rumblings, Winter on Taft with appearances by ‘pianoman' Tom Linker and ‘saxman' Jeff King.
Also, master choreographer Anthony Tudor's pas de deux, Leaves Are Fading will return to the stage with guest artists Matthew Stewart and Courtney Elizabeth of the San Francisco Ballet.

Enduring Prescience offers Minnesota audiences a fall festival of dance with not one, but two unique weekends of a dance that dares experience.

Tickets to Enduring Prescience are available for purchase at The Lab Theater. Please call (612) 333-7977 or visit www.thelabtheater.org for tickets.

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