Dance Company Trey McIntyre Project Performs at Olney Theatre Center
Olney Theatre Center - Historic Stage (2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd. Olney, MD 20832)
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The last date listed for Trey McIntyre Project was Saturday November 8, 2008 / 8:00pm.
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Denise
I was very excited to see dance at the Olney theater. I hope there will be more there in the future. And this company is wonderful!Written on Nov 12 2008
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sklavans
Older theatre has unacceptably poor sight lines for dance with a nearly flat house. While the performance was outstanding, much was obstructed. Future dance events should be moved to newer theatre at Olney.Written on Nov 11 2008
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Quotes & Highlights
- “One of ballet’s more surprising talents.” --New York Times
Description
<p>Four short years ago, Trey McIntyre Project burst onto the national dance scene with its debut performance at The Vail International Dance Festival, and was an immediate sensation. Since its inaugural season, the company has gone on to perform at some of the most prestigious summer venues in the country, including Jacob’s Pillow and Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, premiering works created during annual residencies at White Oak Plantation. Guided by Trey McIntyre’s unparalleled ear for musical structures, Trey McIntyre Project’s repertoire spans rock, classical music, jazz, and historic bluegrass musical selections.</p> <p>Two of the three works being performed at Olney Theatre Center premiered this August at Jacob’s Pillow. Surrender features a pas de deux performed against an unlikely backdrop of music: Grand Funk Railroad's “The Locomotion,” sung by Carol King; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Mirlitons,” from The Nutcracker; and Regina Spector's cover of John Lennon's “Real Love.” </p> <p>The music of Peter, Paul and Mary, from their album Peter, Paul and Mommy, serves the choreography of Leatherwing Bat. </p> <p>“This collection of music was one of the soundtracks of my childhood,” explains McIntyre. “Leatherwing Bat [is] an exploration of the sometimes very adult journey of being a child and the similarities and continuations of these processes as we enter actual adulthood.”</p> <p>The Reassuring Effects (of Form and Poetry) was premiered by the Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center in 2003, to much acclaim. The Washington Times declared: “In the Washington Ballet's splendid program that concludes this weekend, the jewel in its crown is a world premiere by Trey McIntyre. His new ballet is admirable on many levels. Waves of fresh, imaginative dancing spill across the stage; the movement is both virtuosic and nuanced...the new ballet is a tremendous addition to the company's repertoire.” </p> <p>Trey McIntyre is one of the most sought-after choreographers working today. Born in Wichita, Kansas, McIntyre studied at North Carolina School of the Arts and later with Houston Ballet Academy. In 1989, McIntyre was named Choreographic Apprentice to Houston Ballet, a position created specially for him by Artistic Director Ben Stevenson. Since then, McIntyre has created a canon of more than 75 works for companies such as Stuttgart Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet, and Ballet de Santiago (Chile). Trey has served as Resident Choreographer for Oregon Ballet Theatre, Ballet Memphis, and The Washington Ballet. From 1995 until 2007, he was Choreographic Associate for Houston Ballet. He has received many grants and awards, including two choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Choo-San Goh Award for Choreography, was named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2001 and one of People Magazine’s “25 Hottest Bachelors” 2003. In 2004, McIntyre established his critically-acclaimed Trey McIntyre Project, a dance company that allows him to continue his artistic and creative relationships with a select group of high-caliber dancers. In the summer of 2008, Trey McIntyre Project launched as a full-time company operating out of Boise, Idaho. In its first season Trey McIntyre Project will tour to more than 25 cities across the nation and the world.</p>
About the Ticket Supplier: Olney Theatre Center
Located just north of Washington, D.C. in arts-rich Montgomery County, Maryland, Olney Theatre Center for the Arts offers a diverse array of professional productions year-round that enrich, nurture and challenge a broad range of artists, audiences and students. One of two state theaters of Maryland, OTC is situated on 14 acres in the heart of the beautiful Washington-Baltimore-Frederick "triangle," within easy access of all three cities.
An award-winning regional theater, Olney Theatre Center operates under an Actors' Equity Association Council of Stock Theaters (COST) contract, one of only three theaters in the country to operate under such a contract.
In addition to its mainstage season, which emphasizes 20th-century American classics, new works, area premieres, reinterpretations of classics and musical theater, OTC offers a wide range of programs and affiliations including: National Players, America's longest running classical touring company (since 1949), which performs for high school and college audiences in over 25 states; Potomac Theatre Project, which offers experimental and alternative plays that explore provocative and challenging human situations, ideas and visions; special school performances of mainstage shows; a free Summer Shakespeare Festival; and post-show discussions.