Transpose (2017)
Revised from Transparent Body (2004)
Premiere: Danspace Project, NY, 2004; revised Scotia Festival of Music, Dalhousie Arts Center, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Choreography: Rebecca Lazier in collaboration with Christopher Williams
Music: Collaboration with Dan Trueman
Costumes: Mary Jo Mecca
Performers: Rebecca Lazier and Christopher Williams
Duration: 13 minutes
Lazier, Williams, and Trueman first collaborated in 2004 to create the piece Transparent Body wherein a gestural language is expressed sonically and physically that charts the emotional landscape of two bodies that are at once united and separate. Thirteen years later, the technologies of the body and instruments originally used have changed, and the artists have returned to the studio to reimagine the piece. The new work, Transpose, refers both to transformation from past to present and how sound and movement shift forms, merging and pulling away, always at play with each other.
“‘Terrain’’s name suggests substance and texture, rightly standing for what Rebecca Lazier and her dancers shape across space in Lazier’s evocative choreography. With its new “Terra Incognita” program, the troupe beckons audiences into mostly abstract yet extravagant landscapes and mythscapes. In ‘Transparent Body’ classical sculpture breathes and evolves. Lazier and Williams make time expand and contract, and often drop its snapped-off, ragged edge before grabbing it up and working it again.”
