6 dances premiered between 1990-1992

Batida, Alone, Together
Premiered 1990- Keck Auditorium, Occidental College, Los Angeles CA

War, Remembrance
Premiered 1991- Bovard Auditorium, USC, Los Angeles CA

Wedding
Premiered 1992- Glendale Arts Galleries, Glendale CA

Batida, Wedding, Alone, War, Remembrance, and Together

Costumes and sets: Linda Borough
Music: All dances except Remembrance by R. Musci & G. Venosta
Rembrance by Michael Brook interpreted by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Urban and Tribal Dances is about people of present, past, or slightly future time in an urban setting.

The first and last dances reveal an ever-present communal or tribal theme that lies below the surface. “Alone” is just the opposite, bleak and isolated. Although choreographed in 1990, it foreshadows our dependence on our phones, but at this time by the attached line. When it breaks, the dancer is deaf and blind. “Wedding” views the familiar rite of passage from the wedding party members various points of references.  “War” draws on warriors from many times, and was inspired by Desert Storm, which in many ways translated as entertainment on television. Not much was shown of the many who suffered and died during the war. Not much has changed about the physical combat since 1991. “Remembrance” was also used with some changes in Reichlin’s 1995-98 “The Email Dances” used within as both a solo and duet with Reichlin. It was again used in THE BAGGAGE PROJECT with digital art by Audri Phillips.