Hixon Dance in Black Angels

Hixon Dance announces its new production “Black Angels” featuring live music performed by Alicia Hui, Gyusun Han, Spencer Ingersoll, and Mary Davis. The show is at 8pm on March 15 and 16, 2024 and 3pm on March 17, 2024. The evening will premiere new and favorite dance works. Performances will take place at Columbus Dance Theatre at 592 E. Main Street, Columbus, OH. Hixon Dance will present its new work, The Nameless which examines the mental and emotional toll of war on the common citizenry, and how it creates victims both on and off the battlefield. The work is set to Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8, a profoundly personal composition created during a time of deep depression for the composer due to political coercion by the Soviet Union and while reflecting on the bombing of Dresden during World War 2. The dance explores a different aspect of the war machine in each movement and serves as both a meditation and memorial for victims of war. This dynamic string quartet comes vividly alive in the hands of Hui, Han, Ingersoll, and Davis and is not to be missed! Barbara Zuck of The Columbus Dispatch said "[Hixon] is having fun in her mock-tormented Within the Interstice. With the Moonlight Sonata on what sounds like a toy piano, all is not right in Hixon's cuckoo's nest, and the dancers' ultimate response to the weight of the world is -- the fetal position.” The light-hearted dance has a connection to Absurdist Theater: a post-war exploration of existentialist ideas and what happens when human existence lacks meaning or purpose. The dancers, entirely focused on themselves and their own illogical, gain nothing from their efforts and end where they began. The evening concludes with Black Angels performed to the string quartet of the same name by avant-garde American composer George Crumb. The music is for electric instruments with additional maracas, gongs, and crystal harmonica. The dance is influenced by different cultural aesthetics, from Baroque court spectacles to traditional Asian theater. It moves through a series of dream-like images touching on themes of human ritual, spirituality, community, and nature. This production is generously supported by The Greater Columbus Arts Council, The Columbus Foundation, and The Ohio Arts Council. Hixon Dance is a modern dance performing ensemble founded in 2007 and based in central Ohio. The company has been a mainstay of the independent dance scene for almost two decades. It has a reputation for creating rich collaborative stage works that artfully ask big questions through dance that are accessible to anyone. Their work features collaborations with musicians, playwrights, and other mediums. Regular tickets are $20, senior tickets are $15, and student tickets are $12. Tickets are available online in advance at www.hixondance.com or at the door. Hixon Dance is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2007 and based in Central Ohio. For more information, visit hixondance.com.

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