American Dance Festival

Anna Sperber

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Tickets on Sale April 29

ADF Commission
Program: Beacons
Running time: 65 minutes, no intermission
Tickets: $27
All tickets are purchased through Duke University’s Box Office. 

Company Website: www.annasperber.com

We are beacons. Our dance is tenderness. It is the joy and complications of youth and aging. It is holding on. It is tethering. Traversing patterns that unfold over time, reaching exhaustion, and then resisting that limit. How do we simultaneously experience change and stay continuously present? Beacons, choreographed by Anna Sperber, is described by The New York Times as “immediately compelling” and “wonderfully strange,” exploring themes of movement, connection, and endurance through both youth and aging. Performed by Tim Bendernagel, Owen Prum, Zo Williams, and Sperber, with music by Lea Bertucci and lighting by Madeline Best, it delves into change, support, and the complexities of being present.

Wednesday, June 25 at 7:30 pm *Post-Performance Discussion
Thursday, June 26 at 5:00 pm
Thursday, June 26 at 7:30 pm

Photo Credit: Maria Baranova

Beacons was commissioned by ADF with support from the Doris Duke/SHS Foundations Award for New Works.

This performance and commission of Beacons is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.