Houston-based choreographer Adam Castañeda presents Nightglade, a repertory concert featuring three premieres from The Pilot Dance Project choreographed by celebrated dance-makers Brittany Bass, Ashley Horn, and Ty Lewis. The evening also includes a guest appearance by beloved Houston dancer, choreographer, and teacher Roxanne Claire.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 @ 7:30 PM

MATCHBOX 2

RUNTIME:
60 minutes with no intermission

TICKETS:
GENERAL ADMISSION SEATING
$15 Regular (in advance)
$20 Regular (at the door)

Please note that each ticket is subject to a $5 Box Office Support fee at checkout. 

Nightglade’s title work is an ensemble piece choreographed by Ashley Horn and explores grief through the image of mirrored moonlight on an endless open ocean. The reflection ripples, breaks apart, and pulls back together without any pattern. No matter where you move, it follows you, and it stretches all the way to the horizon. Through Horn’s gorgeous movement and signature design elements, the audience is asked, “How do we move through grief when it surrounds us and there is no shoreline in sight?”

Brittany Bass will choreograph the program’s second ensemble work, Negotiations of Togetherness. The dance explores what it means to exist as an individual within a collective, and how we navigate connection, independence, and shared experience, reflecting on the fleeting nature of closeness and the spaces between what was, what is, and what might have been. 

Beginning as a movement exploration, Excavating Conversations at MET Dance Center, in the spring of 2022, the work investigates the relationships that develop when bodies share space. Through intersecting pathways, contrasting physicalities, and shifting spatial dynamics, dancers negotiate proximity and independence, coming together, moving apart, and finding moments of connection along the way. As these relationships take shape and change, connection emerges, transforms, and dissolves. Embracing uncertainty and the unfinished nature of becoming, the work considers how we shape one another and what we carry from those encounters, and the traces we carry as we make room for what remains.

Former Pilot Dance Project company member and current lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ty Lewis will set see, move, flow, go. A duet for two men, the piece was originally created in 2021, but was never produced due to the chaotic presenting landscape wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently rediscovered in a Dropbox folder, the piece will be revived and reworked on dancers Adam Castañeda and Andrew Smith, exploring how the intention of the choreography has shifted, evolved, and blossomed over five years.

Roxanne Claire appears on the program as a guest artist with an all-new autobiographical work, Perfumed. “Scent is the most intense form of memory.” For Roxanne Claire, this poetic truth is the foundation for Perfumed. Through a blend of movement, music, and monologue, Claire’s autobiographical piece takes audience members on a sensory journey through time, revisiting pivotal moments of her life. By weaving specific fragrances into her storytelling, viewers experience for themselves the redolence of lost time.

Roxanne Claire is a choreographer, writer, and video and collage artist. Her work, which explores nostalgia, memory, and loss, has been shown at Houston Fringe, Mind the Gap, Barnstorm, Diverseworks, Aurora Picture Show, and Videoformes, France, among others.

Adam Castañeda’s new solo work, Prince of Flowers, is an attempt to create an original myth rooted in traditional aesthetics and motifs using contemporary arts practices. Castañeda’s movement exploration will be integrated with the contributions of an esteemed group of collaborators, including Lynn Lane (visual media), Sonia Flores (original music), and Ashley Horn (costume design). The dance takes its name from the Aztec deity, Prince of Flowers, god of beauty, love, sexuality, dance, and playfulness.

Prince of Flowers is funded in part by a Let Creativity Happen! Grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.

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