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Forty
Choreography: Guta HedewigDanced by: Heather Harpham, Guta Hedewig, Rachel Lynch-John, Kristi Spessard, Debbie Stamos
Description: Set to snappy brass music, the whirlwind piece is performed by a cast of dancers all turning 40.
Premiered: September 4 & 8, 2007, at DancenOw/NYC's 40 Up series at Dance Theater Workshop
Menagerie
 Kristi Spessard photo © Anja Hitzenberger |
— Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice
Choreography: Guta Hedewig
Danced by: Theresa Duhon, Guta Hedewig, Rachel Lynch-John, Kristi Spessard
Video installation: Anja Hitzenberger
Original music: Edward Ratliff, performed live by string trio plus one
Costumes: Reiko Kawashima with Reiko Tomita
Set Design: Illya Azaroff
Lighting Design: Kathy Kaufmann
Description: Guta Hedewig Dance returned to Danspace with Menagerie, an evening-length multi-media piece that dives deep into the world of creatures and their quirky codes of behavior and casts an observant and irreverent human gaze into animal lives where instinct and internal logic reign supreme. Menagerie ventures into the buzzing, well-organized dances of tail-wagging bees, the leisurely lounging of larger mammals, the precise coordination that guides migrating flocks, and the mysterious symbiosis of crocodiles and Egyptian plover birds. Drama and hilarity emerge from a deadpan bipedal perspective.
Premiered: December 9, 2004 at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery in New York City
Stabat Mater/Mother Stood
Trio. 50 min. Monica Bill Barnes and Kristi Spessard photo © Anja Hitzenberger |
Danced by: Monica Bill Barnes, Guta Hedewig, Kristi Spessard
Music: 'Stabat Mater' by G.B. Pergolesi
Costumes: Lynn Marie Ruse
Set Design: Illya Azaroff
Lighting Design: Kathy Kaufmann
Premiered: Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, November 14, 2002
Click here to see a short video clip of the performance at Danspace.
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 Lisa Townsend and Guta Hedewig photo © Piro Patton |
Descend/Ascend
Duet. 15 min.Choreography: Guta Hedewig
Danced by: Guta Hedewig and Lisa Townsend
Music: Pergolesi, Albinoni
Premiered: Wave Hill/Dancing in the Streets, July 12, 2000
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Binderies
Solo. 7 min.Choreography and performance: Guta Hedewig
Music: Allegro from Regina coeli, K. 127 by W.A. Mozart
Premiered: "HighwayNCI @ Context," February 18, 2000
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Quiet Among Runaway Thoughts:
Instant creations to Mozart's Kyrie, K. 90
Collaboration with Marija KrtolicaVariable length, between 15 minutes and 1 hour
Concept and performance: Guta Hedewig and Marija Krtolica, with MC Lisa Townsend
Music: Mozart Kyrie (K.90)
Premiered: Dixon Place, December 19, 1999
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Facing North, or Northeast
Solo. 14 min.Choreography and performance: Guta Hedewig
Music: Allegro from Violin Concerto in A Minor (BWV 1041) and Allegro assai from Violin Concerto in E Major (BWV 1042), by J.S. Bach
Premiered: 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, November 19, 1999
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 Monica Bill Barnes and Guta Hedewig photo © David Wilson Barnes |
Red Queens Trapped
Quintet. 17 min.Choreography: Guta Hedewig
Danced by: Monica Bill Barnes, Guta Hedewig, Tessa Nebrida, Christine Poland, Jennifer Ward
Music: Pascal Comelade
Costumes: Lisa Powers, Guta Hedewig
Premiered: Movement Research at the Judson Church, April 26, 1999
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Red Queen Trapped
in a Garden of Live Flowers
Solo. 11 min.Choreography and performance: Guta Hedewig
Music: Nino Rota/Collage
Costumes: Lisa Powers, Guta Hedewig
Premiered: Dance Theater Workshop's "Family Matters" series, December 12, 1998
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Thirty
 Mark Landsman, Nami Yamamoto, David Figueroa, Guta Hedewig photo © Anja Hitzenberger |
Choreography: Guta Hedewig
Danced by: David Figueroa, Guta Hedewig, Mark Landsman, Rachel Lynch-John, Kristi Spessard, Nami Yamamoto
Music composed and performed by: Phillip Johnston
Premiered: Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, February 14, 1998
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Link
 Guta Hedewig, Monica Bill Barnes, Sigal Bergman, Nami Yamamoto photo © Carolina Kroon |
Choreography: Guta Hedewig
Danced by: Monica Bill Barnes, Sigal Bergman, Guta Hedewig, Nami Yamamoto
Music: excerpts from recordings of accordion music
Premiered: Performance Mix/New Dance Alliance, Joyce Soho, November 10, 1997
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 Nami Yamamoto and Guta Hedewig photo © Travis Ruse |
Appear/Disappear
Duet. 17 min.Choreography and performance: Guta Hedewig and Nami Yamamoto
Live music: Hearn Gadbois
Performed: Wave Hill through Dancing in the Streets, July 23, 1997
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 Guta Hedewig photo © Anja Hitzenberger |
Track-and-Fields
Quintet. 15 min.Choreography: Guta Hedewig
Danced by: Monica Bill Barnes, Guta Hedewig, Jenny Kleen, Freya Wormus, Nami Yamamoto
Music: Itzhak Pearlman, "In the Fiddler's House"
Costumes: Lisa Powers
Premiered: Dance Theater Workshop's "Fresh Tracks" series, November 12, 1996
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Points of Departure and Back
Solo. 6 min.Choreography and performance: Guta Hedewig
Music: Guy Klucevsec
Premiered: Bates Dance Festival student concert, August 8, 1995
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Expatris
 Guta Hedewig, Emily Fraenkel, Nami Yamamoto photo © Ivan Brodey |
Choreography: Guta Hedewig
Danced by: Emily Fraenkel, Guta Hedewig, Nami Yamamoto and nine guests
Costumes: Kasia Walicka-Maimone
Premiered: Movement Research at the Judson Church, April 3, 1995
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Not being Jewish, and All
Solo. 15 min.Choreography, text and performance: Guta Hedewig
Premiered: Danspace Project at St.Mark's Church/Food for Thought, March 5, 1995
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 Guta Hedewig photo © Ivan Brodey |
Voices of Shuffle
Solo. 14 min.Choreography and performance: Guta Hedewig
Premiered: Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church/Food for Thought, April 17, 1994
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L'olor de la urgencia
 Guta Hedewig and Cesc Casadesus photo © Bruno Brogli |
Choreography and performance: Cesc Casadesus and Guta Hedewig
Set design: Alicia Casadesus, Ferran Gazquez, Esperanca Tortades
Costumes: Heidi Henderson
Premiered: L'Espai, Barcelona, October 29, 1992
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