THROUGH THE DESERT

2010

Choreography: Terri Best
Dancers: 9
Music: Sinead O’Connor
Costume Design: Terri Best
Lighting Design: Ric Zimmerman
Running Time: 4:54
Premiere: Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, CA

Finalist - 13th Annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival

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                                                       Video: Glyn Gray, Stir Studios

In this meditative work, set to Sinead O’Connor’s acapella vocal, nine dancers enter an unknown and uncertain landscape.  Solos, duets and trios break away, intersect, and are re-absorbed by the group as it moves “through the desert”, suggesting the need for faith, and the support of relationship and community, in navigating the unknown. 

  “Making an impression was Terri Best and Through the Desert, an effective ensemble piece [in which the] large cast played well as a weighty counterbalance to the spare balladry of Sinead O’Connor’s ‘I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got’.”
                                                                                -Steven Woodruff, Dance Plug

Photos © Jack Hartin and © Joe Lambie

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