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Ormao Dance Company's PREPRESS

PREPRESS
...an all NEW sequel to our one-of-a-kind Ormao performance experience!

As an Ormao VIP, you have priority access to reserve your ticket to PREPRESS on Nov 12-13.
Due to limited capacity, your Advance Reservation is required!

4 performances | site specific | one-of-a-kind experience
Sat Nov 12, 2:00pm
Sat Nov 12, 4:00pm
Sun Nov 13, 2:00pm
Sun Nov 13, 4:00pm
Former Gazette Building, Nor'wood Development Group, 30 S Prospect

Following the first edition of PRESS, a site-specific performance in the old Gazette building, ORMAO Dance Company presents PREPRESS. Last spring, through choreographic action, live music and video projections, PRESS explored the buildings environs and the loss of labor, specters in an abandoned building. PREPRESS remembers the heyday of the newspaper industry and revivifies a time when pressmen and reporters were essential to our knowledge of current events. The pressman was an exacting, highly skilled craftsman and the journalist synthesized fact and opinion for the avid reader of the daily news. Long before the digital age, the presses moved with lyric grace and precision with no room for error. The social life around the newspaper was at once glamorous and frenetic. PREPRESS is both nostalgic and uncompromising in its evocation of the newspapers glory days.

Co-Directors:
Janet Johnson, Artistic Director of Ormao Dance Company
Shawn Womack, Associate Professor of Dance, Colorado College

Composer:
Glen Whitehead, Director and Associate Professor of Music, UCCS, Bottesini Project musicians.

Lighting and Media Designer:
Robert Mahaffie, Film & Media Studies para-professional, Colorado College

Costume Designer:
Aaron Graves

Interviews:
Warren Epstein, (former Gazette editor) Pikes Peak Community College

Dancers: Ormao Dance Company with guests

Made possible with project support from the Kirkpatrick Family Fund.
Additional support from Colorado College, Bee Vradenburg Foundation, Colorado Creative Industries El Pomar Foundation Ackerman Fund and your individual contributions through IndyGIVE.