Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre

Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre Presents: Third Course featuring a piece set to Debussy’s Clair de Lune

May 5, 6 & 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM

Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby St., Houston, TX 77002

Walsh says: “After my creation of The Afternoon of a Faun set to Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un faune, I became more interested in the composer’s other work, notably his Clair de Lune, and I thought it would make for a fascinating subject to interpret.”

Clair de Lune is considered to be the most adventurous movement of Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque for piano—the rest of the suite is clearly in the Baroque style—and even the composer said that he did not like what he composed in the rest of the suite because of its strict adherence to the style. Debussy’s L’après-midi d’un faune is considered a symphonic poem, a piece of music that evokes the content of some type of literary or visual piece of art. Clair de Lune, taken from a poem by French Symbolist poet Paul Verlaine, is engaged with a similar dialogue between art and music which Walsh finds compelling. Verlaine’s poem uses abstract imagery to embody the themes of melancholy hidden beneath the flamboyant disguises of bergamasques, or French masqueraders. “I am looking forward to creating movement that reframes this piece of music that we, as a culture, have such a familiar relationship with,” says Walsh. Walsh’s revisualization of this iconic work will be created for DWDT Company Member Domenico Luciano.

Ticket prices range from $25 to $52 however, there is a special $5 discount for TFAA associates.  Visit www.dwdt.org for tickets and enter Promotion CodeTFAA or call 713-315-2525 and mention the TFAA code.  (No minimum number needed.  Offer not valid on VIP Opening Night Package or Casting Couch.)

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