RON K. BROWN/EVIDENCE DANCE COMPANY
One Shot
Friday, 3/28/08, 8 pm
Page Auditorium
$38 • $30 • $22 • $5*
One Shot finds Ron Brown’s renowned Evidence Dance Company marking its 23rd anniversary with a dazzling new work inspired by the life and art of Pittsburgh-based African American photographer Charles “Teenie” Harris — a.k.a.“One Shot.” Taking Harris’ documentary work as its point of departure, this precise, ambitious dance production reinterprets Teenie’s achievement, offering a series of “shots,” vignettes in which past and present dance forms commingle.
With sharp juxtapositions and genre-twisting effects, Brown’s company offers a seamless fusion of traditional African dance with contemporary choreography, in the process offering a stirring meditation on the idea of having “one shot” in life. At ADF for a preview in 2006, the fully realized piece makes its Durham debut.
"Ronald K. Brown choreographs some of the most gorgeous movement—which members of Evidence perform with gut-busting, deep-hearted, soul-stirred commitment."
—The Village Voice
In Conversation with Ron K. Brown
Thursday, 3/27/08, 7 pm
Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium
Mr. Brown will talk about Mr. Harris’s work and the creation of One Shot in the Auditorium at the Center for Documentary Studies. Free and open to the public.
In Conversation with One Shot
Charles “Teenie” Harris: Rhapsody in Black and White – an exhibition co-curated by Ronald K. Brown and Deborah Willis featuring Mr. Harris’s photographs that runs March 24–April 9, 2008 at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies – is presented in conversation with the performance of One Shot.
Ron K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company on the web:
Center for Documentary Studies