Dance Concert #2
- Brittanie & Elise

Constellations and Alliances + Barricades and Legacies

The Dance Concerts #1, #2 and #3 are specially created for this edition of La Maison de la Danse. In this series, Frédéric Gies compiled different programs of bold, tender and virtuosic dances extracted from our recent performances for the stage. Selected duos and solos from the pieces will be presented on the original music by Fiedel, but also uniquely revisited with group dances danced as solos and/or solos as duos. Excerpts from group dances will be presented in a unprecedented intimate setting, by 2 dancers.

In Dance Concert #2, Brittanie Brown will dance her solo from Barricades and Legacies: Chiron in Aries, Recital #3 as well as her solo and a group dance from Constellation and Alliances: Chiron in Aries, Recital #4, which was originally created for Weld company extended and never presented in Malmö. Elise Brewer will dance her solo and a group dance form the same piece.

Since 2020, Frédéric Gies has been working on the 7-piece cycle Chiron in Aries. To that day, 4 pieces have already been created. Chiron in Aries takes for framework the astrology and mythology around the figure of the centaur Chiron, the wounded healer.

Choreography: Frédéric Gies
Dance: Brittanie Brown & Elise Brewer
Music: Fiedel
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag

Dates & Times
Wedn. 14 June 2023 - 19.00
Thur. 15 June 2023 - 19.00

Program
18.30: Doors open
19.00: Show
20.00: Discussion with the artists

Photo: Thomas Zamolo

About Brittanie Brown & Elise Brewer

Brittanie is currently a freelancer who received her B.F.A. in Dance from The Juilliard School in 2011 after being named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2007. Throughout the years, she has performed original works by Alexander Ekman, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, Christopher Roman, Stijn Celis and Victor Quijada. Brittanie has worked with companies such as the GöteborgsOperans DansKompani, Skånes Dansteater, Norrdans and Corpus.

Elise has a BA in contemporary dance from Dans and Circus School in Stockholm. Her artistic activity consists of collaborating with other artists, developing own artistic projects and working to strengthen the free dance field by developing and supporting sustainable structures for the dance to operate within. All her work in dance involves a hybrid of doing, thinking, reading, write and discuss.