Licensing & Teaching
PROCESS I THE GROSSMAN COLLECTION | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Process
The following dances are now available to be licensed and taught to dance training institutions. Please contact us for information on each and we will be happy to help work with you in deciding which piece will be most suitable for your students. |
The Grossman Collection |
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**Solos/Duets/Trios/Quartets** |
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Higher (1975)
Music by Ray Charles
Length: 15 minutes
Number of Dancers: 2
"...slipping and slithering up, down or through the rungs with hardly any visible support,
so that it seems levitation as much as acrobatics…An astonishing work and a tremendous
hit.”
- John Percival, Dance and Dancers Magazine |
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Triptych (1976)
Music by Daruius Milhaud
Length: 8 minutes
Number of Dancers: 3
"Triptych features three dancers dressed up as desolate street people. It displays the
kind of motion that makes the air quiver, motion that makes a hush around itself. A beautiful
and touching dance, it is a power in sustained movement...Grossman has choreographed a harrowingly beautiful study in desolation."
- Frida Crisp, Spectator |
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Inching (1976)
Music by Dumisani Abraham Maraire
Length: 7 minutes
Number of Dancers: 2
"Caterpillar-like, the two dancers ooze inexorably towards each other and then inch by
inch unfold the intricacies of an inventive pas de deux."
- Robert A. Fredericks, Morning Union (Beckett, Massachusetts) |
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Bella (1977)
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Length: 15 minutes
Number of Dancers: 2
“Bella is a small gem in which two lovers fly, swing, slide and hang from a flowered horse.
Their interactions are tender, humourous and sexual. The come-hither/go-away sexuality
with its astonished stares and suddenly stiffened postures, is pure Grossman at its best.”
- Alina Gildiner, The Globe and Mail
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Trio from Ecce Homo (Behold The Man) (1977)
Music by J. S. Bach
Length: 8 minutes
Number of Dancers: 3
"Ecce Homo, to music by J.S. Bach, is a work of almost devastating beauty. Inspired by paintings and sculptures of the passion of Christ, Grossman has given paint and marble
the warmth and movement of flesh. It is a work that fills the eye and the spirit."
- Christoper Dafoe, Vancouver Sun
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Curious Schools of Theatrical Dancing: Part 1 (1977)
Music by François Couperin
Length: 10 minutes
Number of Dancers: 1
“[Mr. Grossman’s] solo for himself to Couperin music, called “Curious Schools of Theatrical Dancing: Part 1” and obviously taken from Gregorio Lambranzi’s famous 18th century
textbook on Venetian dance and department, revealed a vivid flair for grotesquerie, as
sharply observed as a Callot etching.”
- Clive Barnes, The New York Times |
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Magneto Dynamo (1985)
Music by Charles Mingus
Length: 6 minutes
Number of Dancers: 4
"(the dancers) transform themselves into human pinballs set berserk in the game of life....
this is a tough, athletic piece, gutsy and satiric"
- Gary Smith, The Hamilton Spectator |
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National Spirit (1976)
Music by John Philip Sousa (Anthems and Marches)
Length: 12 minutes
Number of Dancers: 8
"National Spirit finds a sqaud of gung-ho guys and gals in stars and stripes making like a
phys-ed. class to patriotic songs and anthems. It offers push-ups and headstands to the
Star Spangled Banner, criss-crossed marching to the American Patrol and a total collapse
to America the Beautiful. Danny Grossman knows his target, takes straight aim and once having delivered his shot, retires quickly from the field."
- William Littler, The Toronto Star |
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Nobody's Business (1981)
Music by Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers,
Joe Turner with the Trumpet All Stars
Length: 14 minutes
Number of Dancers: 8
“Gender bending with a message…that sexual orientation and expression are ‘Nobody’s Business’.”
- The Vancouver Sun |
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Endangered Species (1981)
Music: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
For 52 strings Krysztof Penderecki
Length: 10 minutes
Number of Dancers: 9
"...has a grisly, post-apocalyptic mood that lingers in the mind long after the performance.
The images are striking - the jack booted authority with a blood-red flag, the mindless cowering masses following, and those left with a remnant of humanity clinging desperately
to one another like terrified monkeys. It's a nightmare that still has the power to wake us
out of our sleepy complacency about freedom.
- Pamela Anthony, The Edmonton Journal |
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La Valse (1987)
Music by Maurice Ravel
Length: 11 minutes
Number of Dancers: 11
"...an hypnotic, decadent and thought-provoking deconstruction of ballroom dancing, which says volumes about vertical expressions of horizontal desires, all set to the music of Ravel."
- John Coulbourn, The Toronto Sun |
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Hear the Lambs A Cryin' (1997)
Music by Paul Robeson (Negro Spirituals)
Length: 20 minutes
Number of Dancers: 7
"a brilliant metaphor for the suffering and oppression of physical and emotional bondage."
- The Hamilton Spectator |
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Parade of the Spirits (2005)
Music by Ann Southam
Length: 8 minutes
Number of Dancers: 8
"In 2004, I was commissioned by New York State Summer School for the Arts and
American Dance Legacy Institute, to create an Etude for their students. I decided to
deal with the sacred and profane prevalent in much of my works. Originally intended as a
study tool, it became a dance entitled Parade of the Spirits."
- Danny Grossman |
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The Human Family (2006)
Music by Schubert
Length: 25 minutes
Number of Dancers: 34
"I first began working on The Human Family, in 2005, in honour of the 60th anniversary
of the liberation of Auschwitz. I began by creating two sections of it on Etobicoke School
of the Arts for their Spring Gala A Tribute to Danny Grossman. The students of Lester B. Pearson Pefroming Arts School in London, Ontario, performed them in September 2005 for Holocaust Awareness Week."
- Danny Grossman |
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Request for Information
For licensing and teaching information, please contact:
Danny Grossman Dance Company
157 Carlton Street, Suite 202
Toronto, Ontario, M5A 2K3
Tel: 416-408-4543
Email: niki@dannygrossman.com |
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