PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release Contacts:
August 19, 2004 Deborah Reshotko, Artistic Director

Esther Gross, Program Director
303-722-0902

FREE MODERN DANCE PERFORMANCES

Denver-based modern dance company presents site-specific dances
at the Denver Performing Arts Complex and Museum of Outdoor Arts

Denver, Colorado — SPEAKING OF DANCE is pleased to present the premieres of "Dance for The Dancers" and "Dance for a Municipal Center," site-specific dances choreographed by Deborah Reshotko, SOD artistic director. "Dance for The Dancers" will be set in the concrete circle underneath Jonathan Borofsky’s sculpture, The Dancers, in the Performing Arts Sculpture Park on Speer Boulevard next to Boettcher Concert Hall in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. This piece, featuring ten SOD company dancers, will premiere at the Colorado Performing Arts Festival and will be performed on Saturday, September 18, 2004, at 11:30 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. and on Sunday, September 19, 2004, at 1:30 and 3:00 p.m. SOD will also perform "Dance for The Dancers" in site-specific school performances on Tuesday, September 21, and Wednesday, September 22, 2004, at 10:00 a.m. The school performances will be followed by workshops for the students in which they will have opportunities to create short dances to perform underneath the sculpture as well.

For the second piece, "Dance for a Municipal Center," Reshotko will re-set "Dance for The Dancers" for the outdoor amphitheatre next to the Museum of Outdoor Arts. She will adapt the choreography to this unique space and the large-scale public art in it. "Dance for a Municipal Center" will be performed twice on October 3, 2005, at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. Two additional school performances will be held on Tuesday, October 5, and Wednesday, October 6, at 10:00 a.m., followed by student workshops. All performances are free and open to the public, including school performances.

SOD choreographer and artistic director Deborah Reshotko is excited by the challenge of working with the scale of the sculpture, as well as conveying its energy and quality through her dance. The dance will feature a duet in which dancers are bungee-corded together—partner dancing taken to a new level. Original music by local composer Jon Stubbs will accompany the dance. Performing are Gwylym Cano, Lara Hayes-Giles, Christine O'Dea, Melissa Plotnick, Deborah Reshotko, Margaret Skokan, Katie Scheunemann, William Starn, Jennifer Thompson, Dais Tomita. For information and performance times, call 303-722-0902 or visit www.speakingofdance.org.

Support for these concerts is provided in part by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, the City and County of Denver, the Denver Foundation, the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colorado, Denver Ballet Guild, and Zupkus and Angell, Attorneys.
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