Tere O'Connor Dance Rammed Earth San Diego Premiere
Thursday, Feb 12th @ 8pm
Friday, Feb 13th @ 7pm & 9pm
Saturday, Feb 14th @ 7pm & 9pm
Sunday, Feb 15th @ 8pm
Performers: Hilary Clark, Heather Olson, Matthew Rogers, Christopher Williams
Original Soundscore: James Baker
Rammed Earth is a 60-minute piece designed for a limited audience of 50 people per performance. It explores architecture as a fundamental, subliminal force in the choreographic form as well as in human experience. O’Connor’s interest in “sentient architecture” in which structures change form in response to temperature, climate or human activity, is a catalyst for this work .Audience members are incorporated into the expanding, contracting, liquid space of the work, as they are escorted into different viewing positions throughout the performance.
Tere O’Connor has been making dances since 1982 and has created over 30 works for his company. The company has performed throughout the US and in Europe, South America and Canada. O’Connor has created numerous commissioned works for dance companies including the Lyon Opera Ballet, White Oak Dance Project, de Rotterdamse Dansgroep, Holland; Carte Blanche, Norway; TRAFO/The Workshop Foundation, Hungary; for Canadian dancers Bill Coleman and Laurence Lemieux in Montreal; Dance Alloy in Pittsburgh, PA; and Zenon in Minneapolis, MN. He recently created a solo work for Mikhail Baryshnikov.