Media Contact: Lori Jones, ljones@fairfield.edu, 203-254-4000 x2975
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (November 12, 2019) —Choreographer, dancer, and musician Frédérick Gravel returns by popular demand to the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at Fairfield University for the U.S. premiere of Fear & Greed on Thursday the 14th, Friday the 15th, and Saturday the 16th of November, at 8 p.m. each night.
Fear & Greed is Montreal-based Gravel’s first foray into solo performance art. He has previously performed with his company, GroupedArtGravelArtGroup (GAG), a shifting collective of dancers and musicians actively involved in the creation process.
In Fear & Greed, Gravel has fun concocting a character, a sort of self-fascinated double. He is accompanied by veteran musicians under the direction of Philippe Brault, with his artistic accomplice Étienne Lepage serving as dramaturge. As always, a common thread in Gravel’s work is his distinctive way of shattering any desire for comfort and for building a world without any certainty.
Peter Van Heerden, executive director of the Quick Center, noted, “It is Gravel’s relevance in the current moment that makes his works resonate and has catapulted him to the center of the dance world.”
With his dance company, Gravel first appeared at the Quick in 2017 for the U.S. premiere of All Hell is Breaking Loose, Honey, a work that had audiences jumping to their feet for standing ovations. In March 2019, he entranced audiences with his melancholic party, Some Hope for the Bastards.
In the summer of 2018, Gravel spent two weeks as artist-in-residence at the Quick, creating Fear and Greed. The work is co-commissioned by the Quick, in collaboration with Festival TransAmériques, Muffatwerk (Munich), Theater im Pumpenhaus (Münster), Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Montévidéo (Marseille), Centre Culturel de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, and Ceprodac / Centro de Producción de Danza Contemporánea (Mexico).
Gravel has been active in the Canadian and U.S. dance scene for the past 15 years. He is currently the Artistic Director of DLD - Daniel Léveillé Danse - focused on the creation, production, and presentation of choreographic projects at the forefront of dance and the performing arts.
This performance is generously sponsored by The Chelsea restaurant and WPKN Community Radio. Tickets are $30 | Quick Members $25. For more information or to reserve your seat, visit www.quickcenter.com or call the box office at 203-254-4010 or toll free at 1-877-ARTS-396.
Posted On: November 12, 2019
Volume: 52 Number: 42
Fairfield University is a modern Jesuit Catholic university rooted in one of the world’s oldest intellectual and spiritual traditions. More than 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students from the U.S. and across the globe are pursuing degrees in the University’s five schools. Fairfield embraces a liberal humanistic approach to education, encouraging critical thinking, cultivating free and open inquiry, and fostering ethical and religious values. The University is located on a stunning 200-acre campus on the scenic Connecticut coast just an hour from New York City.