The next dance is one that was first shown last spring, The Distant Aidenn, based on a line in an Edgar Allan Poe poem and set to the music of George Winston. It weaves together three solos that Meunier created more than 20 years ago, each with a framework of longing, sorrow, and struggle. The ending, however, suggests again the way in which women find and help each other through tough times.
The last offering of the evening is Meunier and Mozart. As she has done with Metheny and Winston, Meunier's choreography mirrors the music, but never in a lock-step way. Vesperae is ballet-like in the varied use of arms, stretching and rounding overhead, held in a gentle arc near the body, reaching out to the side. They express the serene questioning, ardent supplication, and eventual exultation of the Psalms in Mozart's choral work. This piece is a strong ending to an inspiring dance concert.
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- Southern Exposure
Since Fusionworks Dance Company has maintained a studio in East Greenwich for almost five years, artistic director Deb Meunier decided it was time to bring dance to South County.
- The human condition
In the ambitious program they will perform this weekend (November 20 and 21 at Rhode Island College), members of Fusionworks Dance Company will premiere three pieces that look at the human condition from several perspectives.
- Must-see moves
Two of this fall's dance performances will tell Halloween-style stories — a reprise of Viktor Plotnikov's THE WIDOW'S BROOM , by Festival Ballet Providence, and a premiere of Miki Ohlsen's DRACULA , by Island Moving Co.
- A look back
Fusionworks Dance Company finishes its 20th season with four pieces that draw on repertory and a fifth that is a brand-new improvisation.
- Words in motion
Fusionworks director Deb Meunier first got the idea for her “Unwrapped” talks from a parent chaperoning schoolchildren to a dance concert.
- Crossword: ''Repeat after me''
I solemnly swear that's how it works.
- Oh Susanna
Music director Stephen Lord conducts a Figaro that clocks in close to three and a half hours but so engaging, few people will be checking their watches.
- Erwartung . . .
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA music director James Levine will be back in February to continue his survey of Beethoven and Schoenberg with Metropolitan Opera diva Deborah Voigt in Beethoven’s “Ah! perfido” and Schoenberg’s Erwartung (“Awaiting”), along with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Eighth Symphony (Symphony Hall, February 1-3).
- Lift every voice!
Opera is the big word for 2009.
- Contertizing
Boston Lyric Opera follows up Dvorák’s moonstruck Rusalka, with Christopher Schaldebrand in the title role of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, the BSO and much more.
- Flying high
Cantata Singers director David Hoose must feel that Weill’s music is more timely than ever.
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