Seasoned dance professionals, Brett-Adams and Bowen came together for the first time in artistic collaboration and performance. Their presentation was based on existing solo choreographies that were recreated as duets. The themes of transformation, fertility, death and rebirth are explored in Butoh-inspired contemporary dance using origami-like folded paper sculptures. A set of gongs was be offered for audience members to play, and the reading of randomly selected haiku poems provided opportunities for audience participation.

About the artist: Julie Brette Adams grew up in Washington, D.C. and studied Modern, Jazz, Ballet, African and Latin dance in the U.S. and abroad. She discovered her affinity for choreography after moving to Santa Fe in the early nineties and since then has generated a steady stream of ensemble, solo and duet dance concerts. There is an immediacy in Julie’s work that has garnered her an enthusiastic following of loyal audiences and dance aficionados alike. Whether a moving response to melody and rhythm, a meditation on death, a geometric abstraction or a farcical parody, her dance offers a sustained outpouring of intimacy, alchemy and beauty.

Native Santa Fean Christopher Bowen holds a BA in Modern Dance from The University of California at Santa Cruz and an MA in Architecture from The University of New Mexico. He has performed and choreographed Modern, Ballet, Jazz, Baroque and Cabaret dance in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and throughout France. He is currently employed as an Architect with Plan A Architecture in Santa Fe.