Zenon’s 25th Anniversary Fall Program

It’s a big month for Zenon Dance Company. For one, they hop aboard the holiday treadmill with their premiere of The Nutcracker According to Mother Goose on December 15. But the company’s signature aesthetic—athleticism and precision, not to mention sophisticated musical tastes—will be better displayed a couple of weeks earlier, at its twenty-fifth anniversary program. Five works by Zenon’s favorite choreographers, including Danny Buraczeski, Doug Varone, and Wynn Fricke, are set to music by Marianne Faithfull, Steve Reich, and Jelly Roll Morton, to name but a few. The highlight is likely to be a reprise from Zenon’s Spring 2007 program: “Catching Her Tears (44°N, 93°W)” is a stark, abstracted meditation on loss from New York choreographer Colleen Thomas, who was inspired in part by the plight of a local friend (the title includes the coordinates of Minneapolis).

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