Title: Dig, a dance in 21 parts

List of Images:

1. to the quick

2. archaeology

3. caryatids

4. pondering the circle

5. signatures: Wendy, Lisa, Lesli, Jessica, Rosa

6. finding

7. cutting off

8. prancing vase

9. koroi/Isadoras

10. signatures: Sarah, Nicole

11. wind and wrists

12. in pieces

13. line of tears

14. six columns

15. signatures: Benedette, Anita, Cary, Lisa

16. piecing together

17. second prancing vase

18. finding

19. offering

20. vase

21. gathering

Premiere: February 1991, University Dance Company, Power Center, Ann Arbor, MI. Subsequently performed at the UM Betty Pease Studio Theater, Ann Arbor, MI.

Dancers:

Thursday, Saturday:

Anne-Marie Acchione, Sarah Blackburn, Lisa Catrett, Anita Cheng

Rosa Huang, Wendy Light, Jessica Shinn

Friday, Sunday: Anne-Marie Acchione, Lisa Catrett, Anita Cheng, Lisa Darby, Wendy Light, Cary McWilliam, Benedette Palazzola

Special thanks to dancers Lesli Cohen and Nicole Meyer for their contribution to the rehearsal process.

Music: The Continuing Story of Counterpoint, Part Nine, by David Borden

Musicians:

Stephen Rush, synthesizers

James McLeod, bass clarinet

Louise Mygatt Lerdahl, soprano

Costume design: Ann Kessler

Set design: Peter Beudert

Props: Arthur Ridley

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