SUPER WE
SUPER WE is a 8 min duet created and performed by Raja Kelly and Tzveta Kassabova.
SUPER WE is a movement journey that parallels the relentlessness of contemporary life. Rapid and interminable, the performance relies on rhythm as movement, as sound, as pattern, and as metaphor. The collaborators highlight the complexity of human interaction, both through and with each other and through and with space.
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SUPER WE choreographed and performed by Tzveta Kassabova and Raja Kelly music by Raja Kelly (inspired by Laurie Anderson) |
SUPER WE was restaged with Shannon Healey and Daniel Morimoto and was selected to present University of Florida at ACDF Gala concert at Kennedy Center, 2014.
In 2016 SUPER WE was commissioned by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. See rehearsal footage here.
'Last Thursday, that care was most evident in the dancing itself, humble yet hyper-aware. Each piece contained echoes of the others — have we seen that pathway, that lunge, that embrace before? — in a way that seemed more intentional than incidental.'
SIOBHAN BURKE, The New York Times
'With her halo of curls streaming behind her, she heaves and flings her body: an angel trying to loose the demon inside. Her spastic volatility, riveting in its purity, finally exhausts itself as, in a smudge of hazy light, Kassabova pulses into an expansive split....
Less human beings and more magical creatures dropped in from a world infinitely gentler and wilder than ours, the two (Kassabova and Kelly) treat space like paper: With limbs functioning as scissors, they slice and dice air into origami, occasionally collapsing into each other’s arms or flopping onto the floor, their energies exhausted, but only for that moment.'
Erin Bomboy, Dance Enthusiast
SIOBHAN BURKE, The New York Times
'With her halo of curls streaming behind her, she heaves and flings her body: an angel trying to loose the demon inside. Her spastic volatility, riveting in its purity, finally exhausts itself as, in a smudge of hazy light, Kassabova pulses into an expansive split....
Less human beings and more magical creatures dropped in from a world infinitely gentler and wilder than ours, the two (Kassabova and Kelly) treat space like paper: With limbs functioning as scissors, they slice and dice air into origami, occasionally collapsing into each other’s arms or flopping onto the floor, their energies exhausted, but only for that moment.'
Erin Bomboy, Dance Enthusiast
SUPER WE was performed at:
- The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, DC
- St Marks Church, Danspace Project, NYC 2015;
- Andy Detroit, MI;
- Ririe-Woodbery Dance Company Concert, Park City, UT;
- Utah Arts Festival, Salt Lake City;
- Winter Season, Salt Lake City, UT
- Faculty Concert, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
- ACDA, Valdosta State College, GA
- ACDA Gala, The Kennedy Center, DC