The ten member Hannah Kahn Dance Company will perform six dances choreographed over Kahn’s four and a half decade career. From her 1974 work Spill/Quell to her newest dance Beck and Call, audiences will enjoy a choreographic style that is “rich in invention, clear and forceful in tone, exceptionally vivid in dynamics and rhythm” (Washington Post). Kahn’s choreography has been described as “liquid and lyrical” and “effervescent and witty” (Rocky Mountain News).
“Beck and Call”, the program’s premiere, is set to dramatic and sweeping chamber music by Antonin Dvorak. The dynamic and rhythmic range of the music has inspired Kahn to explore movement patterns and groupings that express the myriad ways that dancers respond to the call of music and choreographic direction. The music and choreography beckon them and they give themselves utterly to the call.
