Doug Varone and Dancers will perform at LSU
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Doug Varone and Dancers are winners of 11 New York Dance and Performance Awards, and they’re coming to the Claude L. Shaver Theatre in the LSU Music & Dramatic Arts Building as a part of the 2009-2010 Performance Arts Series.
The dance company will take the stage at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, with what has been described as “kinetically thrilling dances that make essential connections and mine the complexity of the human spirit. From the smallest gesture to full-throttle bursts of movement, Varone’s work can literally take your breath away.”
Doug Varone and Dancers will present three pieces: Boats Leaving, winner of a 2006 Bessie Award; Lux, a piece about freedom and the spirit of exultation with music by Philip Glass; and a third piece to be announced.
The troupe is the resident company at the 92nd St. Y Harkness Dance Center in New York.
Since its founding in 1986, the company has commanded attention for its expansive vision, versatility and technical prowess.
On tour, the company has performed in more than 100 cities in 45 states across the United States and in Europe, Asia, Canada and South America. Stages include The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, San Francisco performances, London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, Toronto’s Harbourfront, Moscow’s Stanislavsky Theater, the Venice Biennale, and the Tokyo, Bates, Jacob’s Pillow and American dance festivals.
In opera and theater, the company regularly collaborates on the many Varone-directed or choreographed productions that have been produced around the country during the last decade.
Varone, founder and director, received his bachelor of fine arts degree from Purchase College, where he was awarded the Presidential Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.
His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two American Dance Festival Doris Duke Awards for New Work, three from the National Dance Project and two New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies) — for Sustained Achievement in Choreography, and for his 2006 Boat’s Leaving.
For tickets or more information call (225) 578-3527.
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