November 3, 2008 at 7:30
Kenyon Hall, The Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Free Admission, Seating on a first come first serve basis
Reservations:  845.437.5541
Directions: http://www.vassar.edu/visitors/

Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance presents program including Ghosts, Bang for the Buck and a solo excerpt from Debussy Soiree.

With Ghosts, developed during a collaborative residency with Vassar lighting designer David Ferri, Sperling moves Loie Fuller’s vocabulary of billowing undulations and iridescent illuminations into the 21st-century. The dance, which plays with the appearance and disappearance of the body, is set to an extraordinary musical composition by Quentin Chiappetta for piano, percussion and cello which echoes Javanese gamelan. The dancers revolve, dervish-like, in huge silken costumes a La Loie, under multi-hued lights and hypnotic media projections. In an explosive moment, Sperling herself, as soloist, becomes the source of illumination as LED lights underneath her costume flash in successive patterns.

Sperling’s Bang for the Buck is a comic circus-collage that probes the relationship between a performer’s effort and the audience’s “payoff.” The program includes an excerpt from her magical solo Debussy Soiree.