Only two more chances to see Heather Kravas: visions of beauty! If you're interested in reading a brief introduction by Jenn Joy, author of The Choreographic (MIT Press, 2014), or learning more about Heather, the performers, and the crew, here's a downloadable PDF of this week's program. 

photo by Ryan Jensen

More inspiration from choreographer Heather Kravas:

1. The Daft Punk Tron soundtrack

2. "This, or pretty much any high school cheerleading routine" - HK

"The Green Surround." Photo by Jason Starckie

In 2011 Heather Kravas' The Green Surround was named as one of the year's best dance performances (alongside work by Sarah Michelson, Yvonne Rainer and Wim Wenders). The Green Surround cleverly explored eroticization, group mentality, social conventions and perfectionism.

 Liz Santoro in "We Do Our Best". Photo by Ryutaro Mishima

Congratulations to Paris/NY choreographer and Kravas performer Liz Santoro, 2013 Bessie Award winner.

Extreme cheerleading, group forms, repetition & Jerzy Grotowski: An interview with choreographer Heather Kravas & OtB Communications Director Erin Jorgensen

More inspiration for the making of the quartet: Machine Dance, Moscow Ballet School, 1931. Photo by Margaret Bourke-White.

Two novels from Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing's Canopus in Argos series (her "space fiction" series) were directly inspiring to the making of the quartet: