DOUGLAS DUNN + DANCERS
PRESENTS
H E S P E R I D E S
Image: Douglas Dunn + Dancers, Hesperides. Dancers L to R: Vanessa Knouse, Janet Charleston, Dongri Suh, Kieran McBride. Photo courtesy of DD+D, 2025.
Have you ever looked into one of Joseph Cornell's boxes and imagined its contents coming to life? Here's your chance. Lauren Parrish conjures and lights a gray world. Mimi Gross adds color and costumes the dancers. Douglas Dunn provides steps. Jacob Burckhardt organizes sound and opens a video window behind the dancers. Are these cavorters a group? They wander in with separate agendas, seeming to decide as they go how to pass mythical time. Why are they not relating more? Is there strength, will, determination and courage present enough among them to overcome somnolent decadence and to activate the scene? Are these people trapped in a make-believe world of aesthetic pleasure and beauty, or, however dreamily, are they preparing to go to work to correct a high percentage of human failure?
Saturday, April 25
Sunday, April 26
Monday, April 27
Tuesday, April 28
Wednesday, April 29
Thursday, April 30
Friday, May 1
Saturday, May 2
All shows start at 8 PM
Choreography: Douglas Dunn
Music & text selections: Douglas Dunn
Costume Design, Set Collaboration (painted surfaces): Mimi Gross
Video Window and Sound Design: Jacob Burckhardt
Lighting and Scenery Design: Lauren Parrish
Dancers: cove barton, Alexandra Berger, Janet Charleston, Grazia Della-Terza, Douglas Dunn, Vanessa Knouse, Kieran McBride, Emily Pope, Deniz Sancak, Jin Ju Song-Begin, Dongri Suh, Timothy Ward
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Image: The Garden of Hesperides, Ricciardo Meacci, 1894