Chamber Dance Project Offers Flurry of Programs at the Lansburgh Theatre

The Chamber Dance Project, the innovative dance company founded by celebrated choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning, made a spectacular debut and became a D.C. resident with its inaugural season here last year at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.

The company is in the midst of a second flurry of programs in year two through June 28 at the Lansburgh Theatre, where it’s in-residence, with a program oriented towards imaginative innovation of the kind you’re not likely to see anywhere else.

The program is a heady brew sparked by the presence of a roster of solo dancers from companies in Cincinnati, Atlanta, Milwaukee and Washington performing world premiere works with contemporary ballets and dances by four choreographers, complete with a live string quartet. The works are classic in echo and resonance and contemporary in style with athleticism, sensuality, and “arresting emotional shifts.”

The Chamber Dance Project will be performing two programs, including a world premiere of choreographer Darrell Grand Moultrie’s “Wild Swans,” founder Diane Coburn Bruning’s “Arranged,” and D.C. premieres of Ann Carlson’s “Four Men in Suits” and Bruning’s “Journey.” In addition, they will be putting on Bruning’s powerful “Exit Wounds” and “Time Has Come” as well as Jorge Amarante’s tango-flavored “Sur.”

Every performance includes CDP’s popular “structured improv”, in which the troupe builds a dance from audience suggestions.

There will also be house concert’s with the string quartet, open rehearsals, and preview performance As part of the group’s outreach organization, the CDP is donating 300 tickets to area youth and veterans

Dancers include Francesca Dugarte, Morgann Rose and Luis R. Torres from the Washington Ballet, Jacob Bush from the Atlanta Ballet, Chris Lingner from the Cincinnati Ballet, and Davit Hovhannisyan and Luz San Miguel from the Milwaukee Ballet.

Program A—“Wild Swans”, Arranged”, “Four Men in Suits” and “Timer Has Come” will be performed Friday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lansburgh Theatre.

Program B—“Journey”, “Wild Swans”, “Exit Wounds” and “Sur” will be performed tonight at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday at 1 p.m. (Family Matinee Program) and 7:30 p.m.