Upcoming & Present

Bear Crown is commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop's Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Judy and Steven Gluckstern through the David R. White Producers Circle. Additional support was provided by the William and Karen Tell Foundation, Ivy Baldwin Dance Commissioning Circle Member Olivier Rustat, and the Dugas Family Foundation. Bear Crown was created, in part, through an ArtistNe(s)t Residency, a program of the Swiss Cultural Programme at the George Apostu Cultural Center in Bacau, Romania. The Company's residency in Bacau was made possible by a generous grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Bear Crown was created, in part, with a space grant from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange.

Directly inspired by a one month residency in Bacau, Romania, Bear Crown investigates the cause and effect of great transformation Ð personal, cultural, emotional Ð and the inevitable deterioration of what is often deemed powerful, beautiful, and grand. Cannons, harmonicas, sounds of warping metal, and Bonnie Tyler ballads accompany the performers of Bear Crown as they show off their muscles, flirt shamelessly on bear crown rugs, skip nostalgically, and manhandle each other a bit too much.