GORDONDANCE
50TH ANNIVERSARY
1968 - 2018
BENCH, BENCHES, BENCHMARK
WORLDWIDE CELEBRATIONS
2016 - 2020
BENCH, BENCHES, BENCHMARK
is the fiftieth anniversary choreography
project for
GORDONDANCE.
The dance may be performed as a solo - Bench, by a group -
Benches, or with a mass of performers - Benchmark. From 200
choreographies, the creative materials are selected: locomotor phrases,
shapes, sounds, words, gestures, body focuses, directional changes, arm
patterns, rhythms, properties, costumes, settings, etc. The materials are
utilized in a random manner by the performers, and transitions creating
connected sequences are developed. Lonny Gordon is the artistic director.
April 2018, his solo, Radiant Shaman will be premiered by Kanopy Dance
Theatre. Lisa Thurrell will create a legs and feet, arms and hands gestural
solo commenting on the human condition for GORDONDANCE repertory.
Press:
VERY MUCH HIS OWN MAN,
New York Times, New York
A REAL ORIGINAL WORKING,
Chicago Tribune, Illinois
A CLASS BY HIMSELF,
Rising Nepal, Kathmandu
ASTUTE PROFESSIONALISM, FRESH AND UNAFFECTED,
Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
STANDS APART FROM ALL ELSE
Capital Times, Wisconsin
ELEGANT, REFINED
Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, Sweden
ABSORBING AND DEMANDING TEACHER
Mainichi Daily News, Tokyo, Japan
GENUINE MOMENTS OF POETRY
IN HIS ORIGINAL AND INVENTIVE ART
Sunday Statesman, Calcutta, India
VIRTUOSO SOLO OF TECHNICAL CONTROL
AND THE PURE FREE BEAUTY OF LONNY’S
RUNNING, TURNING, FALLING, SWINGING THROUGH SPACE
Japan Times, Tokyo, Japan
ANCIENT BUT UTTERLY MODERN
EXCEPTIONALLY CONTROLLED and
PART OF AN HISTORICAL LINEAGE OF COMMENTING ON LIFE
THROUGH THEATRICALIZED WORK THAT STRETCHES
FROM WIGMAN, TO HOLM, TO KLOEPPER, TO REDLICH, TO GORDON
Star Telegram, Fort Worth, Texas
MR. GORDON COMMANDS ATTENTION
HIS MOBILE FACE BROADCASTS
WHATEVER EMOTION FLICKERS HIS WAY -
JOY, ANNOYANCE, SURPRISE, SADNESS, PLEASURE
Theatre Jones, Dallas,Texas
TRAILBLAZER
Chautauquan Daily, New York
Individual Quotes:
A TREASURE
Alwin Nikolais
INNER QUIETNESS, AND INTEGRITY
Kitty Cunningham
WITH A LIFE LIVED ABOVE THE CLOUDS,
MUSIC BECKONED HIS DESCENT TO DANCE
UPON THE STAGE OF WORLDS,
TO STAND UPON THE SOIL OF TEXAS.
David Weitzler
GORDONDANCE IS LEGENDARY,
AND LONNY IS A VENERABLE MALE ARTIST
EMBRACING A CORNUCOPIA OF EXPERIENCED WISDOM.
Rudolfo Cantu