© 2009

Project Direction Reggie Wilson

Co-Choreography Reggie Wilson
Co-Choreography Andrèya Ouamba
 

Co-Lighting Design  Jonathan Belcher
Co-Lighting Design  Carrie Wood
Costume Design Naoko Nagata 
Cast:  Rhetta Aleong, Fatou Cisse*, Marcel Gbeffa*, Michel Kouakou, Paul Hamilton, and Anna Schon and Reggie Wilson 
Music:  Franklin Boukaka, Traditional Atege-Gabon (the village of Odjouma), Aretha Franklin, Serge & Dechaux, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, mixed by Craig Loftis, Franco and Le Tpok Jazz, Robert Belfour. 

75 minutes running time

WORLD PREMIERE
Walker Arts Center
McGuire Theater
November 12-14, 2009 

NY PREMIERE
2009 Next Wave Festival 
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
December 16-19, 2009

SELECTED REVIEWS

"The Good Dance is the final offering of the 2009 Next Wave Festival, and it’s hard to imagine going out on a higher note than this meticulously constructed, beautiful work."  -NYT (full review)

"The Good Dance really does communicate viscerally and visually. In what seems to be an effort to suggest the flow of influence between the two continents, the eight dancers kick, shovel, toss, and carry 300 plastic water bottles back and forth from one side of the stage to the other. The piece is honest about the differences and rivalries between the two cultures, but it's dominated by an underlying sense of affinity and kinship." -Chicago Reader (full review) 

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