ETM: double down

Using original tap “instruments” designed by 2014 Bessie Award Winner Nicholas Van Young, the score is not simply danced to, but danced BY the company. With the right programming, the sound of a single footfall can range from a snare drum to a note in an arpeggio.

Propelled by the range of possibilities inherent in being both dancers and musicians, embodying the visual and aural, in ETM, Dorrance Dance explores the organic and inorganic, juxtaposing the acoustic and the electric.

program details:

• Run time: 80 minutes, with a 15 minute intermission

• 8 dancers 3 musicians

• Created by: Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young

• Choreography: Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young, with Ephrat Asherie, and solo improvisation by the dancers

• Original Music: Gregory Richardson, Nicholas Van Young, Donovan Dorrance, Aaron Marcellus, Warren Craft, with Michelle Dorrance

• Additional Music: Adele Adkins, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Olof Dreijer, Justin Vernon, Patrick Watson

• Lighting Design: Kathy Kaufmann

• Costume Design: Amy Page and Shiori Ichikawa

funding credits

ETM Double Down was created in part during a Creative Development Residency at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, in part at The Yard during a 2015 Yard Offshore Creation Residency, and during a residency provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation with major funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.