Brocade review: https://www.facebook.com/449243405115579/posts/2986314964741731/ The Xoregos Dance Company began in San Francisco premiering works by Carolyn Carlson, Welland Lathrop, Nancy Spanier and Artistic Director Shela Xoregos as well as the early American dance repertoire of Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn and Doris Humphrey as set by Klarna Pinska. Charles Weidman worked with the company for
his LYNCHTOWN, BRAHMS WALTZES and FLICKERS. Following his death in 1975, his assistant, Janet Towner set the EASTER ORATORIO on them. Katy Litz worked on her SCORE for the company. Duke Ellington invited the company to perform with him at Grace Catherdral in his Second Sacred Concert. Two years after incorporating as a non-profit corporation, the company added theatre, poetry and musical works in carrying combinations including Wilde's SALOME, directed by David Ostwald, LOVE, ISADORA, a one-woman play with eleven dances for Shela Xoregos as Isadora Duncan, written and directed by Rick Foster, choreographed by Rael Lamb, ZAHN STREET, poems of Curtis Zahn and now that fierce few flowers... nine poems of E E Cummings, both choreographed by Shela Xoregos. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, a dance-theatre piece adapted by writer Leonard Cahn and composed by Janice Giteck and other hybrid works was the reason to change the company's name to the Xoregos Performing Company, as they no longer did only dance. When its North Waterfront studio/theatre was torn down, Shela Xoregos moved to New York City to pursue freelance work and the company slumbered until Fall 2001, when it was invited to do MAID TO MARRY for the IONESCO FESTIVAL at the Connelly Theatre; the company did several Greek classics for Cypreco Theatre including ELECTRA and HIPPOLYTUS. (GONE WITH) MISS JULIE, a production of the Stringberg play, set in the South of 1895 with dancers as the Villagers for the Mid-Town International Theatre Festival, (2003), readings of new plays including QUILTING THE SUN (the life of Harriet Powers) by Grace Cavalieri at the Smithsonian Institution in 2003. TYPEWRITER DREAMS in 2004 (five one-act plays by Ade Ademola, Grace Cavalieri, Dave DeChristopher, Robert E. DiNardo and the premiere of a FLORENTINE TRAGEDY by Oscar Wilde). October 2004, REPERTORY TREASURES (PIECES OF EIGHT) for ART/NY's Off Broadway Festival and for New Day Repertory in Poughkeepsie. ON THE BANKS OF SURREAL in 2005, plays by John Cocteau and Rene Magritte (premieres), Tristan Tzara, Michel de Ghelderode and Eugene Ionesco. Also in 2005, SEANCE ON WEST 36th, two one-acts by the late Michael Kalmen for the mini-Fall Festival in WHERE EAGLES DARE Theater. March 2006, a staged reading of HYENA IN PETTICOATS by Grace Cavalieri (the life of Mary Wollstonecraft), currently in development. In June 2006, THE HAPPY IDEA, a play with music by Ade ADemola at the 45th Street Theater. Readings of MEASURE FOR MEASURE, OTHELLO and a full production of HAMLET for Grass Roots Shakespeare in Bryant Park mark the company's Shakespeare forays. The Company has performed in many festivals and at museums including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the DeYoung Museum, The Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Smithsonian Institution as well as Guest Artists at the CUNY Graduate Center, UC Berkeley, US Davis, Solano College and others.
