Purchase Dance Company
Performance is a vital part of the conservatory’s professional training program.
The Purchase Dance Company performs major concerts in the Performing Arts Center; in student and faculty concerts in the Dance Theatre Lab; and on tour in New York City, New York State, and abroad. The Purchase Dance Company has toured to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Beijing, Amsterdam, France, and Germany.
The company presents a diversity of work, from reconstructions to contemporary modern and classical ballet repertory to new works created especially for the Purchase Dance Company.
Recent repertory for the Purchase Dance Company’s major concerts and tours has included:
Kyle Abraham’s Counterpoint
George Balanchine’s Serenade, Valse-Fantaisie, The Four Temperaments, and Tarantella
Aszure Barton’s Over/Come
Merce Cunningham’s Changing Steps, Duets, and Septet
Martha Graham’s Chronicle
Lester Horton’s Beloved
Doris Humphrey’s The Shakers and Passacaglia
Bill T. Jones’ Spent Days Out Yonder and D-Man in the Waters
José Limón A Choreographic Offering
Lar Lubovitch’s Dvorak Serenade
Kenneth MacMillan’s Pas de Deux from Concerto
Mark Morris’ Gloria, A Lake, and Grand Duo
Lin Hwai Min’s Crossing the Black Water
Matthew Neenan’s As it’s going
Stephen Petronio’s Lareigne
Paul Taylor’s Cloven Kingdom, Le Sacre du Printemps, Junction, and Company B
Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields
Doug Varone’s Strict Love, Possession, Rise and LUX and The Nutcracker
New choreography created for the Purchase Dance Company includes works by:
Kimberly Bartosik, Adam Barruch, Alexandra Beller, Gregory Dolbashian, Brian Enos, Ori Flomin, Nicolo Fonte, Shannon Gillen, Robert Hill, Loni Landon, Gabrielle Lamb, Jessica Lang, MADboots Dance, Helen Pickett, Claire Porter, Lauri Stallings, Pam Tanowitz, Luca Veggetti, Shen Wei and Stanton Welch, plus works by guest artists, emerging choreographers, alumni, and faculty
Reviews
Purchase Dance Company Opens First Full New York City Season (Harrison Patch, May 24, 2013)