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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston
October 2018
Commissioned by the museum as part of the 2018 Inaugural Choreographer-in-Residence Program
Boston
October 2018
Commissioned by the museum as part of the 2018 Inaugural Choreographer-in-Residence Program
"Dancers gently connect and disconnect, limbs entwined, gazes calling our attention to details around the rooms. As movement phrases send dancers swirling toward open balconies, the natural light from the courtyard’s atrium plays off lunges, spins, and embraces. Sounds of bells, whispers, a watery piano, and women singing echo in each room and across the courtyard from tiny speakers inside the illuminated lanterns the guides carry. The soft clack of a typewriter in Kenyon’s score suggests America’s burgeoning industrial age...Gardner would be pleased."
- Karen Campbell, The Boston Globe
In November 2017, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum named Peter DiMuro its inaugural Choreographer in Residence for the year 2018. Returning to Isabella’s original want to gather music, dance and performance in the Palace and grounds, ISGM sought to create a residency for choreographers. Over 9 months, DiMuro immersed himself in the life and curiosities of Isabella Stewart Gardner and her accumulated beauties through research in the museum archives and dialogue with staff and guests of the museum.
Over decades of work, DiMuro interests have included the illumination of the extraordinary present in the everyday, often leading him to create work with diversely trained professional dancer/actors and those new to moving- including communities of all kinds, with a respect for multiple ideas of technique allowing a simple gesture equity with multiple turns. Core collaborators on the project are the individuals who comprise Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (PDM), artists who span six decades in age and from diverse movement backgrounds. This core group includes Ann Brown Allen and Ann Fonte (long time collaborators with PDM) and Tony Guglietti, Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Allyson Esposito, Kara Fili, Irene Lutts, Hai Dang Nguyen, Lonnie Stanton and Michael Winward. Guests with the company include the artists Elver Ariza Silva and Kris Lenzo, all of whom bring a unique collaboration through their physicalities and their translations into movement: Mr. Ariza-Silva is a Columbian-born actor/mover and an adult survivor of polio, and Mr. Lenzo, a double leg-amputee, performs as a dancer nationally.
The artists of PDM and their guests acted as the parallel collective personification of the accumulated ideas of beauty we see in Isabella’s eclectic collection.
The unique soundscore and aural environments were created by Boston-based composer Beau Kenyon, a recipient of several notable commissions that push the definition of music and a people’s relationship to it. Original costumes were designed by Heidi Henderson. Stephen Petrilli and Brooke Stanton provided the finishing touches to the overall feel of the project with lighting, props, and other technical design.
Over decades of work, DiMuro interests have included the illumination of the extraordinary present in the everyday, often leading him to create work with diversely trained professional dancer/actors and those new to moving- including communities of all kinds, with a respect for multiple ideas of technique allowing a simple gesture equity with multiple turns. Core collaborators on the project are the individuals who comprise Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (PDM), artists who span six decades in age and from diverse movement backgrounds. This core group includes Ann Brown Allen and Ann Fonte (long time collaborators with PDM) and Tony Guglietti, Lindsay Caddle LaPointe, Allyson Esposito, Kara Fili, Irene Lutts, Hai Dang Nguyen, Lonnie Stanton and Michael Winward. Guests with the company include the artists Elver Ariza Silva and Kris Lenzo, all of whom bring a unique collaboration through their physicalities and their translations into movement: Mr. Ariza-Silva is a Columbian-born actor/mover and an adult survivor of polio, and Mr. Lenzo, a double leg-amputee, performs as a dancer nationally.
The artists of PDM and their guests acted as the parallel collective personification of the accumulated ideas of beauty we see in Isabella’s eclectic collection.
The unique soundscore and aural environments were created by Boston-based composer Beau Kenyon, a recipient of several notable commissions that push the definition of music and a people’s relationship to it. Original costumes were designed by Heidi Henderson. Stephen Petrilli and Brooke Stanton provided the finishing touches to the overall feel of the project with lighting, props, and other technical design.
Press:
The Boston Globe previews PDM's Residency Performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Dance Magazine names PDM's ISGM Residency Performances a highlight of the 2018-19 Season
WBUR covers The House of Accumulated Beauties dance tours
Dance Informa (USA online edition) covers PDM's Residency Performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Dance Magazine names PDM's ISGM Residency Performances a highlight of the 2018-19 Season
WBUR covers The House of Accumulated Beauties dance tours
Dance Informa (USA online edition) covers PDM's Residency Performances at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Top Cover Photo by: Timothy Avery Photography
Slideshow Photos by: Timothy Avery Photography and Sarah Whitling
Slideshow Photos by: Timothy Avery Photography and Sarah Whitling
Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (PDM) is under the fiscal sponsorship of The Dance Complex. Tax deductible donations can be made through The Dance Complex's website. Follow this link, and select Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion when making your donation.