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WROUGHT IRON FOG (2009)

Tere O’Connor’s new evening-length work, Wrought Iron Fog, engages in a poetic interface with the convoluted ideologies of contemporary culture. Its richly layered structure flows through unexpected shifts in rhythm and mood, revealing interior psychologies ghosted behind the surface of the dance. With this work, O’Connor has created a choreographic essay on the nature of consciousness, a complex network of disparate ideas willfully wrapped in a patina of concert dance. The New York Times writes, “Mr. O’Connor seems to be charting new territory in “Wrought Iron Fog.” Much of its unassuming beauty is seen in his agility at guiding dancers through space (or is it the space that guides them?), with choreography that allows the structure to expand and shrink with a curious blend of dexterity and fervor.” Wrought Iron Fog features an original score by James Baker, lighting design by Michael O’Connor, and set design by Walter Dundervill and Tere O’Connor. The work is performed by Hilary Clark, Daniel Clifton, Erin Gerken, Heather Olson, and Matthew Rogers. Wrought Iron Fog premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City, November 2009. (65-minutes)
 
 

 

Wrought Iron Fog was commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop’s Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Wrought Iron Fog was funded by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation. Wrought Iron Fog has also been made possible with critical support from The Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, Creative Capital Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency); the New York State Council on the Arts (a state agency), and the University of Illinois Creative Research Board. Wrought Iron Fog was developed, in part, in residence at The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University.

 

 

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Photographs by Paula Court, Yi-Chun Wu, Paul H. Taylor