Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company is internationally recognized as an important part of Argentina's avant-garde dance movement. Based in Buenos Aires, the troupe has appeared at the International Arts Festival of Costa Rica, at the Urban Landscape Festival in Barcelona, at the First International Aerial Dance Festival in Boston, and at the American Dance Festival, where Brenda's company first performed in 1998 and where she was commissioned to create new work in 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2005.Since February, 2001, when the company made its Kennedy Center debut, it has returned annually to the U.S. for engagements that have included multiple-performance runs at Spoleto Festival USA and in New Haven, Connecticut; Dallas, Texas; at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas; and in Atlanta, Kansas City, and Omaha, Nebraska. During the spring of 2005, the company performed at the Carlson Center in Overland Park, Kansas, at the Premiere Dance Theater in Toronto, and at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada. In the fall of 2005, the company participated in the Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center, and then appeared in an extended engagement at The Holland Festival. Last season, the troupe performed at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and in the spring of 2008, Brenda returns for engagements in Portland, Oregon, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
For the 2008-2009 season, Brenda will be touring a full-evening program entitled "Air-Condition" which premiered in its entirety at American Dance Festival in the summer of 2005. The program is comprised of sections from "Otras Partes" (1997), "South, Wall and After" (1998), "De Parte en Parte" (2000), and several new pieces of choreography including "Duet of Transition" and "New Quintet.”
For the past decade, Miss Angiel has been developing a dance language that defies the laws of gravity, suspending her six dancers from a special support structure with harnesses, ropes, and bungee cords. The result is aerial dance which attempts to transcend the stationary viewpoint of the audience, subverting the traditional relationships among weight, movement and space, and generating a new perspective. "Who would not want to defy gravity, particularly in such a buoyant, light-hearted way? (In 'Otras Partes'), without losing any of that magical sense of airborne travel, she sets her dancers to purposeful tasks and everyday activities. Moments of delicious physical wit. (In 'South, Wall and After'), the result is hauntingly beautiful and full of subtle surprises. A powerful piece!" - The New York Times
"In an inspired departure from traditional dance forms, the Brenda Angiel Aerial Dance Company made its Spoleto debut with sparkle, wit, and the magic of flying. Poetry in motion. A tour de force for an innovative young choreographer." - The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC
The production requires a minimum 24-hour load-in and rehearsal period (over two or three days) for the anchoring of a 42'x18' upstage wall (to be used when the presenter's backstage wall is not clear of pipes, etc.), the set-up and rigging of a specially-designed scaffold, and technical rehearsals. The work can be performed in a proscenium theatre or in a black box theatre. A fly loft is not required.
VIDEOS: SPOLETO USA AIR-CONDITION
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