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"well-honed choreography and refined delivery"
                                     -- Lisa Kato, The Daily Fitchett
                                                                            

Tick of the Clock (chair section) from Terri Best Dance on Vimeo.

TICK OF THE CLOCK (chair section)
Choreography: Terri Best
Music: Chromatics
Video: Jerry Evans

Opening sequence from Tick of the Clock, a four-part work for 10 dancers. 

Tick of the Clock premiered as a work in progress for EDGE Performing Arts Center’s 20th Anniversary Show at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center in July 2012; the full-length work was subsequently performed for the 6th Annual Pasadena Dance Festival at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in April 2013.


   

Tick of the Clock (duet excerpt) from Terri Best Dance on Vimeo.

TICK OF THE CLOCK (duet excerpt)
Choreography: Terri Best, in collaboration with the dancers
Dancers: Dave Birr and Anh Dillon
Music: Cliff Martinez
Video: Glyn Gray, Stir Studios

Performed at the 6th Annual Pasadena Dance Festival, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, April 2013

This duet - an excerpt from the larger ensemble piece Tick of the Clock - explores the theme of co-dependency. The dancers cling to, push, pull and manipulate each other without ever losing contact or being able to completely let go.


   

Who Is The Alpha? from Terri Best Dance on Vimeo.


WHO IS THE ALPHA?

Choreography: Terri Best
Music: Fever Ray
Video: Jerry Evans

Premiere: Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, July 2011

In this rhythmic, driving, physically demanding piece, the dancers - like wolves - "run with the pack" while challenging each other and asserting themselves in an attempt to establish dominance.
  

Threshold from Terri Best Dance on Vimeo.

THRESHOLD
Choreography: Terri Best  
Dancers: Anh Dillon and Joey Thao
Music: Riceboy Sleeps
Video: Glyn Gray, Stir Studios

Finalist: 14th Annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival

Threshold takes place at the liminal border between the seen and unseen worlds – the dream state – where the spirit of one who has departed crosses over to re-unite with her beloved. It is a dance of absence and presence, closeness and distance, holding on and letting go….

  

Through the Desert from Terri Best Dance on Vimeo.

THROUGH THE DESERT
Choreography: Terri Best
Music: Sinead O'Connor
Video: Glyn Gray, Stir Studios

Finalist: 13th Annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival

In this meditative work, 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.

  

Duet from Terri Best Dance on Vimeo.

DUET
Choreography: Terri Best
Dancers: Anh Dillon and David Contreras
Music: Gustavo Santaolalla
Video: Glyn Gray, Stir Studios

  • Winner: 2008 Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Performance by a Small Ensemble
  • Finalist: 2008 Lester Horton Award for Outstanding Achievement in Short Form Choreography
  • Finalist: 12th Annual Dance Under the Stars Choreography Festival

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