Choreography by Diane Arvanites & Tommy Neblett, 2008
22 minutes
“Lignage, set to a selection of Maurizio Pollini’s extraordinary performances of Chopin’s Études, responds to the composer’s arpeggios and the music’s undertow but not its shapeliness. The all-woman company (Prometheus has included men in the past and adds them as projects require) wear mottled brown dresses so that as they run past one another they resemble autumn leaves scattered by random gusts. There’s a motif where Megan Schenk cupped her hands before her with a sense of calm expectancy; later, the older Nicole Sell Danizio repeated that gesture in a way that indicated she did not expect her empty hands to be filled.”