inDANCE and Patricia Beaman

Friday, December 6 and Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 7pm
CFA Theater

ROWDIES IN LOVE is the latest work by inDANCE led by award-winning choreographer Hari Krishnan, Professor of Dance, Global South Asian Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Eight male dancers blaze through an inspired and inventive movement vocabulary, queering Bharatanatyam and contemporary dance from global perspectives. The work is a transformative act that uses dance to resist the continued oppression of queer people, created in response to the prevailing socio-political context in parts of Asia, especially India and Singapore, where Krishnan has roots. The piece is set to a soundscape by United Kingdom-based composer Niraj Chag, winner of an Asian Music Award. Support for this work has been provided by a production grant from the National Dance Project and a Jacob’s Pillow Lab residency.

The Jewel Thief is an exciting collaboration of Neo-Baroque dance-drama based on Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller To Catch a Thief (1955). Choreographed by Patricia Beaman, University Professor of Dance, and composed by Neely Bruce, John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, this lavish spectacle weaves the past with the present, drawing inspiration from Madame Sevigny’s reminiscences of the fêtes of Louis XIV’s court, the 1920s Modernist costume parties of the Bauhaus, and Truman Capote’s infamous Black and White Ball of 1966. Bruce will conduct the live performance of his evocative score, which interlaces Baroque and Modern motifs. The ensemble will include Piano Instructor Carolyn Halsted, as well as Charles Yassky, Alex Waterman, Cynthia Knotts, and Nola Campbell.