Parallel Play
Andy Meyerson and Myles Thatcher
A virtuosic and vulnerable tour de force, Parallel Play is a recital for solo dancer and solo percussionist choreographer/dancer Myles Thatcher and percussionist Andy Meyerson exploring the past, present, and future of their respective disciplines.
PROGRAM
John Cage: Child Of Tree / Merce Cunningham: Solo
Glenn Kotche: The Path Only Appears With The First Step / Robin Dekkers: The Path Only Appears With The First Step
Nicole Lizée: The Filthy Fifteen / Rex Wheeler: The Filthy Fifteen
Danny Clay: Still Cycles / Dani Rowe: A Noticeable Pause
Raven Chacon: Portrait / Babatunji: Portrait
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chaconne from Violin Partita #2 / Myles Thatcher: Valediction
PIVOT Festival, curated by Andy Meyerson
Presented by SFPerformances
7pm at Taube Atrium Theater
Tickets
In this world premiere performance, Thatcher will dance six new solos choreographed for this project by Merce Cunningham, Robin Dekkers, Rex Wheeler (aka Lady Camden), Dani Rowe, Babatunji, and Thatcher himself. Each will be paired with six percussion solos performed by Meyerson, written by John Cage, Glenn Kotche, Nicole Lizée, Danny Clay, Raven Chacon, and J.S. Bach.
Who We Are
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Myles Thatcher is a soloist dancer with San Francisco Ballet and a choreographer. After training at The Harid Conservatory, Ellison Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet School, he joined SF Ballet in 2010. As a dancer, he has performed principal or featured roles in many classical and contemporary ballets, including Lensky in Onegin, and Paris in the 2015 film of Tomasson’s Romeo & Juliet for Lincoln Center at the Movies’ Great American Dance.
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Andy Meyerson is a drummer and percussionist based in San Francisco, California. He is the Artistic Director, co-founder, and percussionist of The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere experimental classical ensembles in the United States. Named one of the “22 performers to watch in ‘22” by the Washington Post, The Living Earth Show has presented over a decade of “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper) new music that pushes the boundaries of technical and artistic possibility while amplifying voices, perspectives, and bodies that the classical music tradition has often excluded.