Description
After the Fall evokes a primordial time of innocence, raw emotion, and struggle.
The dancers shift from sympathetic co-dependents to feral challengers, highlighting the human capacity for kindness and cruelty, savagery and generosity. With powerful lifts that require equal parts control and abandon, the path of this dance offers brief glimpses of unison and unexpected reversals of partnering.
Jan Bartoszek premiered After the Fall for a performance at an exhibit by painter Phyllis Bramson at the Chicago Cultural Center. The primal music score by Winston Damon enhances Bartoszek’s visceral choreography.
Production
Choreographer: Jan Bartoszek
Composer: Stone (Winston Damen)
Costume Design: Judy Lundberg
Cast
Mei-Kuang Chen
Shannon Preto
Performance(s)
Dance Chicago ‘99
December 3-5, 1999
Athenaeum Theatre
Chicago
FORECAST
November 10-11, 2000
Storefront Theater
Chicago
In the Absence of Restraint dances of dependence and desire
April 6-7, 2001
Athenaeum Theatre
Chicago
Hedwig Reloaded 2003
November 7-8, 2003
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Joyce Soho Theater
April 27-30, 2006
New York City
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
40th Anniversary Concert, June 20, 2025
… a masterful, richly expressionistic duet Adam and Eve. Jan Bartoszek’s complex and powerful choreography (set to a striking score by Winton Damon) was superbly performed by Mei-Kuang Chen, a dancer of tremendous authority, and her fine partner…
— Chicago Sun-Times
Special Thanks
Special thanks to Joan Pangilinan-Taylor and Shannon Preto.
