Find out what Lola wants at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Company’s Signature Works. The program includes new works and audience favorites, with New York-based choreographer Joe Calej’s Whatever Lola Wants among the pieces reprised. “It’s a pretty fun piece, with a little bit of a sexual undertone to it,” says company Artistic Director Marlana Doyle. “We dance with apples and bananas. It’s five women trying to get the attention of one man. We taunt him with our apples, and he pulls out his bananas in response. It’s all very fun.” Calej knows Houston Metropolitan Dance well; he was the company’s resident choreographer before moving to New York.
Among the works having Houston premieres is Kate Skarpetowska’s 2002 piece Stand Back, a tango for three women and three men. “She’s been coming to Houston since 2005, and that’s a work that she’s always wanted to re-stage on us. It hasn’t really been performed much since 2002, so she’s brought it back for us.” And the company is reprising Skarpetowska’s 2005 Tidal Intersections, the first piece she created for Houston Metropolitan Dance.
The program also features Revisited, Rebound, Revamped and Returned by Kiki Lucas, the Houston Met’s resident choreographer. It’s a collage of several works, including a solo work by Lucas. “They were separate pieces, but now she’s combined them.” 8 p.m. Wortham Theater Center, 501 Texas. For information, call 713‑222‑5400 or visit www.houstonmetdance.org.
Sat., April 28, 8 p.m., 2012
This article appears in Apr 26 – May 2, 2012.