Since his days as a break dancing B Boy, Doug Elkins has not only turned himself on his head but the dance world as well. His irreverent and provocative work often deconstructs classics
This program features the Elkins' take on Shakespeare's Othello and José Limon's The Moor's Pavane, Mo(or)town/Redux. Set to a Motown score, Mo(or)town Redux prompted this praise from Alastair Macaulay, chief dance critic of The New York Times: "It's a rare artist who can make you feel as though you'd never paid attention to one of the world's most popular songs. The song is 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'; the artist is Doug Elkins."
In addition to Mo(or)town/Redux, Elkins premieres a new piece, O, round desire, and his new film, A Hundred Indecisions, produced by Dance for Film on Location at Montclair State University. These new works are set to scores that range from classical to rap and explore the writer Gabriel García Marquéz's notion that "one can be in love with several people at the same time ... and not betray any of them."
