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COVER BOY (2011)

In Cover Boy, Tere O'Connor extracts structural conceits from the closeted gay experience to drive his choreographic process. Part expression, part exorcism, and part political observation, this work celebrates the outsider perspective of artists and willfully embraces the often marginalized status of choreographic work. The work is performed by four dancers - Michael Ingle, Niall Jones, Paul Monaghan, and Matthew Rogers. With original music by O'Connor's longtime collaborator, composer James Baker. Set design by Aptum Architecture (Roger Hubeli and Julie Larsen).

 
 

 

Cover Boy is made possible, in part, by Danspace Project's 2011-12 Commissioning Initiative, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the Vapnek Family Fund, and the University of Illinois Research Board.

Cover Boy was created in residencies at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Mounth Tremper Arts Festival, and LMCC’s Residency Program at Governors Island.


  

 

© Tere O'Connor Dance 2010 / site: bartokweb.com
Photographs by Paula Court, Yi-Chun Wu, Paul H. Taylor