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Premier – Danspace Project, 2009
Commissioned by – Danspace Project
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| (Re)view _________________ |
Premier – Danspace Project, 2009
Commissioned by – Danspace Project
(Re)view - a hilarious piece for 5 dancers and on-stage dance critic. A real-
time review shifts the attention to the role media plays in our lives, exposing the way we are (mis)guided by others' perceptions.
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Foreign Relations_______________ 
remier – Danspace Project, 2006
Commissioned by – Danspace Project |
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Transform_______________ 
Premier – Danspace Project, 2003
Commissioned by – Danspace Project
Performances – New York and Mexico, Dance Repertory Theater (Florida) |
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Premier – 2000,
Long Island University
Performances
– Duke University, Limon
Dance Center, Skidmore
Are we there yet? was
danced by Jim May and Gus Solomon jr,
two pros who know how to perform, know
their way around a stage. They are
effortlessly together on stage, despite
their struggles on the road in costumes
of elegant hopeless hobos by
Timberlake. In the unraveling rambling
down the road we learn about
friendship; of one’s looking up
to another; how even when you think you
cannot be the stronger but you must,
and so you do for however long,
touchingly, to the last note of the
music.
— Attitude Magazine
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Premier – 2000,
Detroit 
Performances – Dance
Festivals in Puebla and
San Luis Potosi (Mexico), Detroit
Dance Collective, Monclair State
University, Joyce Soho
A
joyous exploration of space. The
juxtaposition
of movement phrases lends a special
power to the moments of unison, drawing
our attention suddenly to a single
movement. The dancers utilize movements
of suspension, which are also present
in the music, and visually create the
rhythmic feel of the music. The
movement conveys the abundant joy
present in life despite its times of
difficulty. The powerful uplifting
energy of this piece was communicated
clearly, Danielson capturing the joyous
energy and rhythm of the music in the
movement he created.
— 12 Gauge Magazine
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Premier – 1999,
Limon Dance Center
Performances - Bonstelle Theater
(Detroit),
Tanssin Päivän (Finland), Iowa
Dance Festival,
Dance Festivals in Puebla and San Luis
Potosi
(Mexico), Joyce Soho
The duet Edge started with a solo
for Alan Danielson. A man moves, tempted
by a red cloth, at times almost drowning
in it, constantly balancing between
desire and fear. A woman’s arrival
starts an exhausting struggle between the
forbidden and desired, between the craved
and scared, which ends with her
destruction. At the end, the
woman’s slow disappearance into
folds of the red cloth was impressive and
unforgettable.
— Keskisuomalainen
(Finland)
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Premier - 1998, Joyce
Soho
Performance - Tanssin
Päivän and Turin Conservatorio
(Finland), Montclair State University,
Detroit Dance Collective, Dance Festivals
in Puebla and San Luis Potosi
(Mexico)
He can also be deliciously funny and was
particularly so in Harold & Agnes,
the program’s premiere, a tour de
force of incremental movements that gave
us two very quirky characters. The fine
muscle control of their constellation of
subtle moves is impressive; the resulting
odd characterizations etched to an
equally odd variety of vocalizations are
imaginative and unusual..
— Attitude Magazine (US)
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The sure and impressive
choreography tells the story in all
it’s sadness – but how
amusingly it can be told.
— Turin Sanomat (Finland)
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Premier – 1997,
Moving Art (Switzerland)
Performances – Detroit
Music Hall, Iowa Dance Festival, Dance
Festivals in Puebla and San Luis Potosi
(Mexico), T.A.N.Z. Braunschweig
(Germany), Joyce Soho (NYC), Florida
State University
Tear is a duet
about a couple who as they dance are
almost always touching, their very
closeness becoming oppressive until it
must be rent. Tear isn’t
maudlin; pronounce it to mean rip. The
score by Tom Farrell is spare and tense,
which is also true of the duet in which
tension seems to evolve naturally.
Desperation is in the air. You can feel
the weight in their arms’ length
pulls. Weight sharing isn’t casual
in Tear, but has a realistic
power.
— Attitude Magazine (US)
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Premier –
Sibelius Academy, Finland 
Performances – Music in
Motion Dance Co,
Montclair State University, Wayne
State University, Iowa State
University
Commissioned by
Kuopio Music and Dance
Festival.
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Premeire – 1996,
Insitut del Teatre (Spain)
Performances - Statens
Ballethøgskole (Norway), Palucca
Schule (Germany), Joyce Soho, Florida
State University
Commissioned by Institut del Teatre,
Barcelona (Spain)
A lyrically rising and falling dance
…. Bodies that seem to sing
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— New York Times (US)
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Premier – 1995,
Merce Cunningham Studio , NYC
Perfomances – Benefit for
EFSD (NYC), Centro Nacional de las Artes
(Mexico)
Draws one into the mysterious world of
seven vulnerable but brave
voyagers
— New York Times (US)
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