2015 · Dance – stage work
To Go Again
Joe Goode · AXIS Dance Company
A dance-theater work for AXIS Dance Company about the lives of military veterans with disabilities and their families. It is built from interviews, and the dancers speak and sing the testimonies as they move.
- Premiere
- 2015-06
- Venue
- AXIS Dance Company premiere, Oakland (exact venue not confirmed)
- Where
- Oakland, CA
- Performances
- AXIS national 'to go again' tour 2015–16, which included Dance Place, Washington DC (May 14–15, 2016) and Stanford Live (April 2016), plus performances and workshops at VA hospitals and veterans centers (e.g., a Millersville University residency in Nov 2015). In-studio production residency May 3–7, 2015.
- Credits
- Director/choreographer: Joe Goode. Composer: Ben Juodvalkis. AXIS Artistic Director: Judith Smith. Dancers (HowlRound): Nick Brentley, Sophie Stanley, Dwayne Scheuneman, Julie Crothers, Kevin Lopez. AXIS staff contacts: Yayoi (music/production), Karl. Supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project; commissioning support credited to Geoffrey Fallon.
Press
“Joe chose composer Ben Juodvalkis, whose mother is a nurse at a Veterans Hospital; so he was thrilled to be involved.”
“Even though it's about veterans and their families, to go again is primarily about the tribulations and triumphs and sufferings and dreams of people.”
“The dancers speak and sing the lines with vulnerability and candor.”
Elsewhere
- to go again — HowlRound Theatre Commons, 2017-03-07
- Dance to move the heart: Heidi Latsky Dance & AXIS Dance Company — Critical Dance, 2015-11-19
- Virtuosity, Expression, and Story: Axis Dance Company's National Tour — thINKingDANCE, 2016-05-23
- AXIS Dance National "to go again" Tour 2015-16 — YouTube, 2015
- Julie Crothers, Nick Brentley, Dwayne Scheuneman and Sophie Stanley of Axis Dance Company in to go again — Critical Dance, 2015-11-19
- AXIS Dance Company (April 2016) — Stanford Live, 2016-04