Events
2nd Best Dance Company
First Street Studio is excited to bring 2nd Best Dance Company to Austin for a performance AND classes!
PERFORMANCE of RED
When: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Doors 7:15PM, Show 7:30 PM
Where: First Street Studio, 701 Tillery St
CLASSES
When:
—Tuesday, May 14 at 10AM and 7:30PM
—Thursday, May 16 at 10AM and 1:30PM
Where: First Street Studio, 701 Tillery St
**Drop-In and pay before class
2nd Best Dance Company blends humor and tragedy while tackling big topics through “rigorous, inventive movement and wit” (Dance Magazine). The company brings its signature style to Oklahoma and Texas stages with a physically rigorous, sometimes virtuosic, almost always slapstick work entitled RED.
RED is a new evening-length work that walks the fuzzy, shag-carpet line between dance performance and narrative play, leaning into both text and movement to tell an abstracted version of a well-known fictional story of survival: Little Red Riding Hood.
The performers–Courtney Barth, Hannah Garner, Will Noling and Ryan Yamauchi–cycle through distinct characters, either true to the original story or entirely new. 2nd Best Dance Company will explore how we confront the many-faced “big bads” that lurk on our personal wooded paths. In RED (choreographed, written, and directed by Hannah Garner), four performers brave the unknown by way of spectacle, sentimentality, glamour, mortality, and answering the phone.