City/Dans: DANCE BY ALAN DANIELSON a way here March 5-7, 2009 • [Thu-Sat] at 8:30 PM Admission: $18.00 (members $12.00) With a powerful cast of international artists from Osaka (Japan), Turku (Finland), and New York City, Alan Danielson's new evening-length work explores the physical and metaphoric aspects of distance and space. Created over three different continents, in compact venues and at great distances, the dances are shaped by the physical laws of bodies in space and the complex logistics of a long-distance creative process. Time and language barriers, varying perspectives, and cultural (dis)connections yield a dynamic and intriguing exchange in a work that bares the emotional weight of distance in relationships: communication, isolation, interdependence, memory, and trust. a way here features performance by New York-based dancers Geraldine Cardiel, Danielson, Whitney Hubbard, Elisa Schreiber, Alexandra Shilling, Yayoi Suzuki, and Jessica Weiss; SALT (Sari Hannula, Niina Airaksinen, and Maria Nurmela) from Turku, Finland; and U-Air (Hiromi Uesegi and Yoko Nakayama) from Osaka, Japan; as well as music by Pau Mottram, Loscil, and Mie Miki, and lighting by Carol Mullins. www.alandanielson.com "...a choreographer of effervescent wit and charm." Dance Magazine a way here is made possible, in part, with funds from the 2008-2009 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from the Jerome Foundation. Additional support has been provided by the Regional Dance Center of Western Finland and Turku Conservatory Dance Department.