Hartel Dance Group celebrates its 7th year anniversary in the great OKC with “Retrospective” a choreographic reflection on 7 years creating dances under its company banner and 30 years of work by Founder and Artistic Director Austin Hartel. Performances are Friday and Saturday November 6th and 7th at Oklahoma Contemporary 3000 General Pershing Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73107
RETROSPECTIVE refers to the idea that one's body of work is related to and reflects the ideas, concerns, idiosyncrasies, style and voice of its author, and the means of deconstructing, re imagining and linking selected works from Hartel’s repertoire. For a look back at Hartel’s rich history, visit www.harteldancegroup.org
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Hartel started his professional dance career as a ballet dancer with the Philadelphia Opera Company, holding an AGMA contract at the age of 16. He graduated from NCSA in the early 80’s and there he discovered modern dance. He worked with the Frank Holder Dance Company, The Trockadero Ballet for a short period, the Limon Company and after that, Pilobolus Dance Theater. The diversity of his trajectory as a dancer, has given Mr. Hartel a very unique choreographic style. He reached international recognition with his own company, Dalton Hartel Dance, based in NYC and touring all over the world. The dances that we will be able to see from that era are “Asleep in the desert”, a soft take to the mesmerizing music of Billi Gibbons and “A Cottage for Sale” a duet set to music by Dinah Washington that digs into the crumbling moments of a relationship of a couple once deeply in love. From his time as Director of HDG, Austin has decided to bring back “Tethered”,a piece set to the early 80’s music, “Syncopated” with original score by Aaron Robinson, and PopArt, a fun interactive dance. Among other pieces on the program, will be the US Premiere of "Después de la tempestad", a duet choreographed by Gloria Oviedo from Paraguay. This dance was selected as best modern dance choreography at the Concurso Nacional de danza of Paraguay, as well as the Dance Festival in Cabo Frio, Brasil.
Hartel Dance Group presents RETROSPECTIVE Friday and Saturday, November 6 and 7 at 8:00 p.m. at Oklahoma Contemporary 3000 General Pershing Blvd, Oklahoma City, OK 73107
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Photo by Skip Largent
Funding
Hartel Dance Group is funded in part by The Kirkpatrick Foundation and many generous individuals.
Hartel Dance Group
Hartel Dance Group is a contemporary dance theater ensemble with a mission to create and perform contemporary dances that convey the essence of the human experience. Named after Founder and Artistic Director Austin Hartel, HDG's bold, interdisciplinary collaborations combine poetic choreography with sculptural shapes, projected images, and haunting original music. The resulting dances resonate with complexity and depth and provoke emotion, connection, and wonder. HDG' roster of dancers includes Thyrsa Da Rosa (Artistic Associate), Karen Boyd Bethel, Cameron Lee, Emily Oliver, Christy Strauss, Jennifer Rader (OU) and guest artist From Brasil, Regislaine Simois (Bolshoi School), Cibele Soares and from Paraguay Carlos Fossatti and Paz Ayala (ISBA).
HDG has performed several times at venues throughout Oklahoma, including the Festival of the Arts, The Lyric Theater at the Plaza , the Rose State College PRESENTS series, The Oklahoma Contemporary Dance Festival , and appeared at noteworthy events including the grand openings of the Myriad Gardens. HDG tours to numerous festivals and theaters, including New Arts Festival in Fort Myers (Florida), Momentum in Tulsa, and most recently, the Orlando Fringe Festival (Florida) where the company was awarded PEOPLES CHOICE Best Dance Company of the Fringe.
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You can always find this place packed on a weekend night and sometimes they host parties that you can't get into, but other than that happening every once in a while this is the place to be. The event space have nice upstairs and down stairs area.
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