Commissioned by the Newport Beach Arts Commission, Keith has been working with seven members of the center there to create a new work, Dancing with Ghosts. The piece includes photos from the performers’ ancestry (going back to the early 1900s), oral histories, music and movement. Also on the program will be the award winning Slip Knot and White Guy Swell Dance (for Duke). The latter dance is a solo from the evening length Mavericks, which toured coastal California 2001-3. However, for this and some future performances, the solo is performed by an awesome woman (Sara Fenton)!
Completing the program is the duet Keith’s been working on during the summer with veteran performers Alan Grant and Christina Gray. This work explores Alan’s current range of movement, almost a year after he unexpectantly suffered a stroke. The true performer that he is, the limitations did not slow down Alan’s desire and love of performing. The working title for the piece is Left and music is culled from the in-progress drafts of Sergio Cervetti’s 2005 score for Audacious. A truly riveting dance! |
| Choreographer Keith Glassman was honored with a prestigious 2007 Lester Horton Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement for Revival, Reconstruction, Restaging of Slip Knot at the annual award ceremony in Echo Park April 27, 2008. Nominated by a jury of local experts and voted on by the membership of The Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles, the 1994 work was recently performed in Culver City and Santa Monica with additional performances scheduled for 2008-9. Having premiered at Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks series before Keith relocated to Los Angeles, this new version is beautifully performed by dancers Sara Fenton and Louie Cornejo. Don't miss it! |
