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Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - Photoformance: Long Lie Down, 2011
(2014)
This work was originally made for a museum installation with photographer Ernestine Ruben. Separated from the museum exhibit, this work shows a reclining figure in constant metamorphosis. Peter Sparling: dancer and video; ...
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - black body, 2010
(2014)
Entitled "black body", this piece was created in December 2010 in Paris and signifies a surface or body capable of absorbing all the radiation falling on it.. Peter Sparling: performer/editor and music by Zenharmonic Gamelan.
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - Door to the River, 2010
(2014)
This video captures a performance that was choreographed by Sparling and made for the University Dance Company. The piece shows four dancers navigating between projections on two screens. This is a study in the scale of ...
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - Patient Spider, 2011
(2014)
This work is a hypnotic study of the nude figure in a strip of natural sunlight, but colorized and abstracted as with a flat painting. Music by Yehuda Yannay. Peter Sparling: dancer and video.
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - In Memorium: Shirley Verrett, 2010
(2014)
This work is both a triptych of a man mourning a loss and a tribute to acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Shirley Verrett. Peter Sparling: performer and editor. Features the aria, "When I am laid in earth" (from Henry Purcell's ...
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - The Snowy Owl, 2011
(2014)
Inspired by a poem written by Benjamin Landry, this work combines text and movement into a 'dancepoem' with music by Benjamin Duboc. Peter Sparling: dancer and editor; Benjamin Landry: poet; Jacques Mersereau: videography; ...
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - Forest Through the Trees, 2012
(2014)
This work was choreographed by Sparling and performed by the University Dance Company. The dance is a meditation on Gertrude Stein's text,'The Making of Americans.' Annette Masson portrays Stein; Mary Cole: lighting; Colin ...
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - DEVANT/DERRIERE, 2009
(2014)
This work presents two studies of the male nude in motion and contrasts two facings of the body to the camera. Peter Sparling: dancer and editor; Jacques Mersereau: videographer; and Jeff Alder: lighting. Features music ...
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - He was Locked in a Race Against Time, 2008
(2014)
This work is a one-man odyssey through four stages of mental destabilization. The piece is set to Stravinsky's 'Sacre de Printemps.' Sparling performed and edited this work.
Performances, Auditions, and Rehearsals - Travelogue, 1994
(2014)
A Pilgrimage for Dancers, Narrator and One-Man Band in Three Acts. This work was performed by the Peter Sparling Dance Company in 1994 and features the actor Malcolm Tulip with music by Frank Pahl. Peter Sparling: ...