Natural Selection

Natural Selection was commissioned by the American Dance Festival with support from the Doris Duke Awards for New Work and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

The creation of this work was also supported by funds from the 92nd St. Y New Works in Dance Fund. Created with the support of the Joyce SoHo Space Grant.

Music: Michael Gordon, Weather One

Lighting Design Adaptation: Burke Wilmore

Costume Design: Elizabeth Payne

Premiere: June 22nd, 2004, American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina

“Everyone appeared to be gripped by some awesome, yet oddly exhilarating, force of nature.”

- Jack Anderson, The New York Times (2005)