This contemporary ballet performance showcases folk chamber music by local legend Tom Hagerman of DeVotchKa.
, and they just really captured me. The textures and emotions were very present for me, and I knew I was on to something when I started to see characters and narratives come together."
"I like to create these characters who care deeply about each other but have all the messiness of humanity bound up in them,” Ammon says."We're not in a specific place, though it could probably be somewhere in Europe. We're not in a specific time, but it could probably be somewhere in the ’40s. And we see the family's expectation of how life was supposed to be when their son returned home get completely disrupted.
The narrative was built around Hagerman's music, which Ammon says he gravitates to because of the artist's ability to fuse classical and folk sounds together. Wonderbound worked with Hagerman back in 2015 on its production, so when Ammon called the musician to discuss the current project, he was reaching out as a trusted collaborator.
The music complements the company's dance style, which, although it is rooted in classical ballet, diverts from the dance form's traditions — in which all the movement lifts upward — by returning dancers to the earth. Ammon also weaves in folk dancing as well as elements of modern dance inspired by jazz and hip-hop.
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