danny grossman dance company

Licensing & Teaching

PROCESS I THE GROSSMAN COLLECTION | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION


Process

The following dances are now available to be licensed and taught to professional dance companies and training institutions. 

The Grossman Collection

 
 
 

 

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.”

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."

Scherzi (1976)

Music by Jean Baptiste Arban

Length: 8 minutes

Number of Dancers: 3

"Scherzi, a romp for three zany characters who look as if they have escaped from a Victorian circus. Grossman's almost childlike delight in packing the piece with witty, acrobatic movement transmits a simple pleasure in the physicality of dance which needs no explanation."

 

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."

 

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.”

 

 

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."

  

 

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.”

 

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"

Old Hannah (2008)

Music by Leadbelly

Length: 17 minutes

Number of Dancers: 9

 

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."

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’.”

Human Form Divine (1992)

Music: Kirk Elliot

Length: 25 minutes

Number of Dancers: 15

 

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. 

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."

 

Ces Plaisirs (1985)

Music by Ann Southam

Length: 25 minutes

Number of Dancers: 8

Two for the Road' (2005)

Music by Pat Metheny and Charlie Haden

Length: 14 minutes

Number of Dancers: 2

Two for the Road was inspired by the tremendous loss suffered by a good friend. It is a story of loneliness and found love. The texture and simplicity of the music greatly affected the dance, softening the carefully thought out movement and instilling it with subtle feeling.

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."

 

Chasing Bird (1999)

Music by Charlie Parker

Length: 15 minutes

Number of Dancers: 6

 

This is Heaven to Me (2001)

Music by Darren Copeland

Length: 15 minutes

Number of Dancers: 6

Momento Mori (1988)

Music by J.S. Bach

Length: 15 minutes

Number of Dancers: 1

 

Passion Symphony (1998)

Music by Marcel Dupré

Length: 15 minutes

Number of Dancers: 4

 

 

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