BUSK
Bessie Award–winning work created with Aszure Barton & Artists in Santa Barbara, 2009.
You show up. You offer everything. No guarantee, no promise of return. That's what a busker does on a street corner — and what a dancer does on the world's grandest stage. The act is the same. The worth is the same. BUSK — from the Spanish buscar, to seek — is a rebellion against a world that walks past without stopping, against a system that doesn't value its artists enough. A demand to be seen.
"Wildly eccentric and stunningly original… nothing short of phenomenal. Dancing of pure magic."
— WTTW Chicago
Video (above) courtesy of Grand Théâtre de Genève. Photos (below) courtesy of Aszure Barton & Artists, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet British Columbia.
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Choreography: Aszure Barton
Music: Moondog, August Soderman, Camille Saint-Saëns, Daniel Belanger, Slava Grigoryan, Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin
Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce
Costume Design: Michelle Jank
Originally danced by: Aszure Barton & Artists
Premiere: 2009
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Premiered on October 8, 2009 by Aszure Barton & Artists at the Ringling International Arts Festival, USA. BUSK was created at the Lobero Theater in Santa Barbara, California, United States of a residency organized by Dianne Vapnek's DANCEworks. The work was then developed in residence at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta, Canada. BUSK, in its original version, is a work long term. BUSK was made possible thanks to the generous support from Dianne and Daniel Vapnek, DANCEworks, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity and Ringling International Arts Festival, with the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in association with the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Additional support was also brought by the White Oak Conservation Center, the Howard Gilman Foundation and the Council of the Arts of Canada.
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"Pure energy expelled fearlessly through every atom of the flesh, without a molecule of oxygen held in reserve for the future, marvelous and marvelously unselfconscious in pure movement.”
- Chicago Reader
"otherworldly” - New York Times
