DANCE

Farrell Dyde Dance Theatre presents Useless Activities (A Love Story). One Night only: Wednesday October 12, 2011 at 8 PM at Barnevelder Movement Arts Complex, 2201 Preston Street. Useless Activities (A Love Story) is an evening length dance theatre work created and performed by veteran choreographer/dancer/actor/director Farrell Dyde (pictured).

The work has three distinct yet related parts: (1) Some Game to music by the Ink Spots & Dalek, (2) The Twilight of James Morrison James to music by Nilsson & Gavin Bryars & (3) To Have & Have Not to music from the 1930s.

The work is about love, work, and the conflict between anxiety and nostalgia.

Pre and Post show features new paintings by E.M. "Mike" Hollis.

“ In pieces like Desire in the Hinterlands and the solo, Havana – both ironic examinations of love lost and regained, of meeting and parting – he opened a window on dance that revealed a panorama wider and grander than the views offered by many better known modern practitioners of movement.”
– Elizabeth Elam, Houston Home & Garden

“The ideas are brilliantly surreal and dangle on the cutting edge of cruel comedy.”
-- Ann Holmes, The Houston Chronicle