OBERON’S GROVE

Visiting Bradley Shelver @ Steps Rep  

   

Monday March 17th, 2014 - Steps Repertory Ensemble will be participating in the REVERBdance Festival March 21st - 23rd, 2014 down at Baruch Performing Arts Center. Since I was previously committed for the dates of the performances, the Ensemble's artistic director Brad Shelver kindly invited me to stop in at a rehearsal today.

Photo at the top: Gabriela Soto and Malik Kitchen.

   

Ravel's Bolero is the setting for Brad's 3114 BCE, a wild ensemble piece in which the movement is as relentless as the music. The dancers more with increasingly ferocious energy as the music surges forward on its long, inevitable crescendo; they even scream like savage beasts.

The other work to be shown at REVERBdance is Bradley's She and Him, Him and Her, He and I, Us and Them (excerpt) which was created in 2012. To music by Beethoven and Bach, two couples perform intense, intimate duets:

 

Carley Marholin and Aurèlien Peillex...

...and Gabriella Soto and Malik Kitchen.

Here are a few more photos of the Steps Repertory dancers at work:

 

Aurèlien and Carley

 

Katherine Sprudzs

 

Lane Halperin

 

Malik Kitchen

 

Brad Shelver coaching Malik and Gabriela

 

Aurèlien and Carley

 

Carley and Aurèlien

Malik Kitchen  

 

Gabriela Soto

Carley Marholin

 

The Steps Repertory Ensemble will be at Ailey Citigroup in July 2014 presenting both the works detailed above, plus works by William Forsythe, Elisa Monte, and Francesca Harper. Further details will be forthcoming.