PAST PERFORMANCES

SPIRIT (2001)

Duende Dance Theater has presented 3 full length productions in its first year and a half of existence.  The first, Spirit, was the debut performance of Duende Dance Theater, performed in Atlanta's 14th Street Playhouse in June 0f 2001.  Spirit consists of a compilation of works by artistic director Amanda Exley Lower.  Click on the images below to see some of the works and dancers presented.

SET TO RISE (2002)

Duende's second show, Set to Rise, was performed on March 8 & 9, 2002 at the Conant Center for the Performing Arts.  Set to Rise is an evening length work created by Amanda Exley Lower that explores the nature of trauma and healing, inspired by the events and the aftermath of September 11, 2001.  This intense and emotional work includes modern dance, live music, film, and text.  Click on the images below to see some of the highlights of Set to Rise.

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2002-03-06/arts_dance.html

MAKING LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS (2002)

Part of First Glance Atlanta

Duende's third show, Making Light Out of Darkness, was performed on October 28 & 29, 2002 at the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta.  Making Light is an evening-length work created by Amanda Exley Lower that uses a 15-foot tall steel set, in the shape of a window, as the dancers explore ways to make light out of the darknesses in life.  This work is at times intense and emotional, and others playful and funny, and includes modern dance, live music, and text. 

LAYERS & LANDSCAPES (2003)

January 10, 11, 2003 @8pm

January 17, 18, 2003 @8pm

Conant Center for the Performing Arts

Oglethorpe University

Layers and Landscapes was an exciting glimpse of new works by Amanda Exley Lower, Blake Beckham, and Elizabeth Dishman.  The evening explored the way in which modern dance can cut through and peel away the veneer of emotions, situations, and characters. 

Self Same, choreographed and performed by Amanda Exley Lower and Elizabeth Dishman, depicted the conflicting drives of the ego battling with one another.  The Memory Dances used poetry and a meditation on the saxophone to look inside a human mind and watch the creation and recreation of memory.  Ophelia presented a new twist to Shakespeare’s complex lady figure.  Perched on and in a bathtub, Ophelia sings love ballads out of madness. The Affair illustrated the passion, intensity, and destructiveness of a Victorian love triangle to the passionate Cello Suite Number 2 of Bach. 

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/2003-01-15/arts_dance.html

"ON THE FLY" WORKSHOPS (2003)

Fly-By Theatre and Duende Dance Theater cross-pollinated their performance techniques for a one-month long training workshop for actors and dancers in the Summer of 2003. The workshop culminated into their July production of On The Fly, a one-hour series of vignettes performed by a diverse cast of fourteen local actors and modern dancers.  This show highlighted the physical performance techniques of Duende Dance Theater and Fly-By Theatre, including physical comedy, modern dance, and poetic scenes that resemble farce and fable.

PULSE (2003)

An evening of two new works by

AMANDA EXLEY LOWER and ELIZABETH DISHMAN

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, November 6^th, 7^th & 8^th @ 8pm

“Just for Kids” show on Saturday, November 8^th @ 2pm

Georgia Avenue Church