Luminarium Dance Company Presents 'Secrets & Motion'

This November, witness Luminarium Dance Company's feature production as it debuts downtown. "Secrets & Motion" combines dance, light, and text to create a performance riddled with contemplative thought and a little humor. After a sold-out preview performance at the Armory (Somerville), one critic described the production as "a powerful play on poetry in motion and the mysteries hidden in the light and dark."

"Secrets & Motion" is an evening of several new works by Luminarium Artistic Directors Merli V. Guerra and Kimberleigh A. Holman, woven into one production i?nspired by the secrets we keep, share, and dismantle.

Among the highlights of "Secrets & Motion" is a new dance-on-camera film by Guerra and group work by Holman. Played in reverse, Guerra's film secrets we withhold versus the multitude we share, told through the eyes of a solo performer caught in the turbulence of thousands of flying paper notes.

Adding levity to the production, Holman will present a dark-but-comedic trio based on the Benjamin Franklin quote "three can keep a secret if two of them are dead," all set to a Mozart piano sonata. From solo studies to large group movement, each piece of choreography finds inspiration in historical or contemporary secrets, hidden text, cultural phenomena, or personal experience.
Luminarium Dance is a Boston-based modern dance company, incorporated in 2010, that was most recently hailed as one of Boston's ten "unsung heroes" by the "Improper Bostonian".

The company strives to produce high-quality art that blends choreography with atypical lighting design, film and video projection for a multidimensional viewing experience. Luminarium Dance Company also believes in the importance of community, produces Boston's only annual 24-Hour ChoreoFest, and completes a community outreach project yearly.

SECRETS & MOTION - a dance concert utilizing nontraditional lighting design and secrets, running November 1 and 2 at 8pm, at Boston University Dance Theater, 915 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215.

Admission is $25 (general) and $20 (students, seniors, BDA). Visit the company's website to buy tickets; http://www.luminariumdance.org/secrets.
Email [email protected] or call 617-477-4494 with questions or for more information about discounted-rate group sales.