PearsonWidrig DanceTheater

The company employs dance, text, and video to explore ideas ranging from the socio-political—in "Katrina, Katrina: Love Letters to New Orleans" (“Heart-wrenching and wryly comic” [The Washington Post]) -- to the poetic—in "Thaw" (“Carries enough everyday magic for several productions”—Eva Yaa Asantewaa) -- to the mystical piece "The Return of Lot’s Wife" ("unfolds with the pulsating rhythm of a carefully crafted poem" [The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York]).

This site work has featured rowboats in Central Park, the Great Lawn at Jacob's Pillow, the Eiun-In Buddhist temple in Kyoto, the modern architecture of I. M. Pei’s Portland Museum of Art, and Wave Hill, the bucolic estate in the Bronx.

Their biggest site-adaptive work, "A Curious Invasion" at Wave Hill, featured 88 performers, 24 haystacks, 10 fans, 5 sprinklers, 4 TV/VCR’s, and 2,000 ice cubes.

They also developed a new company/concert stage work "Sayonara, Martha", and created the site-specific performance project "Paradise Pond" in celebration of the Bates Dance Festival’s 25th anniversary, with original music by Robert Een.

They engaged in two weeks of cultural exchange, collaborating with the Rosario Cárdenas Dance Company and Cuban dancers and musicians on a new site-specific performance in Old Havana.