Press

“In a stellar turn from her Pandora’s box of devastating surprises, Jane Comfort lays irony upon irony in her latest work, An American Rendition. She brilliantly manipulates the way movement reinforces dialogue.”

Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Dance Magazine

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“[BESSIE awarded Underground River] is an absolutely glorious exploration of the conscious and unconscious minds, full of humor and whimsical touches as well as an underlying sadness.”

Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

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Description

Jane Comfort and Company is a dance-theater group whose work pushes the limits of dance and drama to achieve a new form of theater. An instigator of collaborations across various artistic disciplines, Jane Comfort’s subject material is as diverse as the artists and art forms she employs.

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Jane Comfort Biography

Jane Comfort is a choreographer, director and writer who has pioneered the possibilities of multidisciplinary dance since the ‘70s. Known for issue-oriented works integrating text and movement, she is called by The New York Times “one of the most fertile minds in the theater of mixed forms,” and by The Village Voice “one of the most original choreographers on the downtown scene.”

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An American Rendition
In a time when more votes are cast for American Idol than a presidential election, An American Rendition explores our moral and political paralysis in the face of torture alongside our national addiction to TV reality shows.

 

Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3am (48 minutes)
Fleeting Thoughts: Mr. Henderson's 3AM returns Comfort to her roots - the musicality of language - after twenty years of dance theater spanning non-linear as well as narrative-driven work.

 

Underground River (25 minutes)
Underground River, winner of the Bessie Award as a “risk-taking and profound theatrical tour de force,” is a dance/theater work that explores the rich inner life of a girl who appears to the outer world to be unconscious, or comatose.

 

Persephone (35 minutes)
Persephone is performed within a set of metal and neon sculptures by internationally recognized artist Keith Sonnier, with a score based on Javanese gamelan musical structures by Tigger Benford. The work is based on the classic Greek myth of Persephone, admired by Hades who abducts her, forcing her to live with him as Queen of the Underworld.

 

 

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