Rhythmically Speaking's The Cohort 2022 runs August 11-13 at the Southern Theater
Saturday, June 4, 2022 at 3:10PM
Rhythmically Speaking (RS) recently announced The Cohort 2022 will run August 11-13 at the Southern Theater.
The Cohort 2022 will feature new works by local dance artists Erinn Liebhard (RS Artistic Director) and Rae Charles (RS Company Member), and remounted works by visitors Kathleen Doherty (Halifax, NS Canada) and Laura Ann Smyth (Los Angeles, CA). Liebhard’s new work An Opening is a musing on the synergy of keeping it together and breaking apart, and Charles’ new piece Learning to Understand uses the metaphor of falling in love to explore how we come to understand ourselves and one another. Visitor Kathleen Doherty is remounting her work BASS-line, which takes inspiration from how prominent basslines within music influence movement choices, rhythmic timing and shapes in the dancers’ bodies, and visitor Laura Ann Smyth is setting her work Character A/Musings, using the jazz idiom to consider the way in which we invent and reinvent ourselves throughout our lifetime.
In addition to these four choreographers, The Cohort 2022 includes a group of ten local dancers who will perform all four pieces on the show. The cast includes company dancers Nieya Amezquita, Rae Charles, Doug Hooker, Sara Karimi, RS Artistic Director Erinn Liebhard, Kelli Miles, Javan Mngrezzo, Jake Nehrbass, Kathleen Pender and Betsy Schaefer-Roob
Since being founded in 2008, Rhythmically Speaking has presented 98 original and remounted works, and engaged 350+ artists and thousands of audience members.
