Varone, Doug. Possession. Dir. Rachael Lincoln. Chamber Dance Company. Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater, Seattle. 2023. Performance
Choreography | Doug Varone |
Premiere Date | 1994 |
Music | Philip Glass, Concerto for Violin & Orchestra |
Costume Design | Lynne Steincamp |
Lighting Design | David Ferri |
Staging | Jake Bone and Courtney Barth |
Costume Realization | Misty Reubens Meyers |
Lighting Realization | Peter Bracilano |
Rehearsal Direction | Rachael Lincoln |
First Quartet Dancers | Gary Champi, Annie Franklin, Christopher Kaiser, Noel Price-Bracey |
Second Quartet Dancers | Derek Crescenti, Alana Isiguen. Cameo Lethem, Emily Schoen Branch, Jeremy Zihao Yuan |
Performance Date | October 12-15, 2023 |
Performance Location | Meany Hall- Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater |
Possession premiered on September 28, 1994, at the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, VA. It was co-commissioned by Virginia Commonwealth University, the Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston, ME, and the NYU Tisch Summer Dance Residency Program. The creation of Possession was funded, in part, by the New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Carpenter Foundation. Possession is loosely based on images from the A.S. Byatt novel of the same name.