Kristen Hollinsworth trips the light fantastic in Susan Marshall’s ADAMANTINE (photo by Rosalie O’Connor)
Baryshnikov Arts Center
450 West 37th St. between Ninth & Tenth Aves.
June 9-11, $25
www.susanmarshallandcompany.org
www.bacnyc.org
Susan Marshall & Company will be celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary this weekend with a pair of fascinating productions at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, both of which were originally commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair. From June 9 to 11, the New York City-based troupe will present the fifty-minute Frame Dances visual art and dance installation in the Howard Gilman Performance Space at 7:00, followed by the New York premiere of the forty-minute Adamantine in the Jerome Robbins Theater at 8:00, and Frame Dances again at 9:15; audiences can select whether they want to start the program at 7:00 or 8:00. The June 9 performance of Adamantine can be purchased as part of a benefit gala ($150) or individually for $20. Adamantine is a beguiling multimedia work featuring live music by Peter Whitehead (with Elton Bradman), sound design by Jane Shaw, costumes by Olivera Gajic, and shadowy projections courtesy of Mark Stanley. Set in small boxes of grass or sand, the multimedia Frame Dances offers an interactive element, as the audience is able to move within the space to choose what they want to see. Whitehead again composed the score, with costumes by Mary Kokie McNaughter and video design and projections by Ryan Holsapple and Roderick Murray. The company consists of dancers Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke Miller, Joseph Poulson, Ildiko Toth, Petra van Noort, and Darrin Wright. It should be quite an unusual evening of dance, art, music, and theater coming together in unique, unpredictable ways.