Licensing & Teaching PROCESS I THE GROSSMAN COLLECTION | REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
The following dances are now available to be licensed and taught to professional dance companies and training institutions. |
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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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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." - Michael Crabb, Toronto Star |
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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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Old Hannah (2008) Music by Leadbelly Length: 17 minutes Number of Dancers: 9
- 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
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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Human Form Divine (1992) Music: Kirk Elliot Length: 25 minutes Number of Dancers: 15
- Pamela Anthony, The Edmonton Journal |
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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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Ces Plaisirs (1985) Music by Ann Southam Length: 25 minutes Number of Dancers: 8 - The Hamilton Spectator |
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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. |
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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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Chasing Bird (1999) Music by Charlie Parker Length: 15 minutes Number of Dancers: 6 - The Hamilton Spectator |
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This is Heaven to Me (2001) Music by Darren Copeland Length: 15 minutes Number of Dancers: 6 - The Hamilton Spectator |
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Momento Mori (1988) Music by J.S. Bach Length: 15 minutes Number of Dancers: 1
- Danny Grossman |
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Passion Symphony (1998) Music by Marcel Dupré Length: 15 minutes Number of Dancers: 4
- Danny Grossman |
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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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