Ball Passing Project
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Created originally in 1979 for three performers Ball Passing was an immediate critical and popular success. Since then, there have been versions for 9, 18, 25, 48 and most recently 60 Ball Passers. The work has been performed in major theaters around the world by a wide variety of dance companies including the Joffrey Ballet, The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and many others. It has been performed extensively by schools and non-dance groups as well and has been used in a corporate setting to demonstrate how complex systems involving many elements can work efficiently through cooperation and interedependence. Ball Passing has been heralded as a landmark in the development of post-modern dance.

 

pic_cmCharles Moulton has created and set works on Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Project, The Joffrey Ballet, The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, The Ohio Ballet, Oregon Ballet Theater, Gauthier Dance (Stuttgart) and many other companies around the world.

A 1983 Guggenheim Award winner, Mr. Moulton is a co-founding director of Performance Space 122 and the recipient of the 1989 Dorothy B. Chandler Performing Arts Award. He has received numerous other awards and fellowships including three Jerome Foundation awards and three Meet The Composer/Choreographer awards. In 2007 he received a Dance: Creation to Performance Grant from the Irvine Foundation for his work “60 Person Precision Ball Passing” performed at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Moulton is an active commercial choreographer. He has created a featured solo for Acadamy Award winner Tilda Swinton in the movie "TEKNOLUST,” the choreography for a national print and television ad campaign for Peregrine Communications, and a rave scene for 1000 dancers in "THE MATRIX RELOADED.”

In May 2008 he collaborated with choreographer Janice Garrett and the Del Sol String Quartet to create “StringWreck,” an evening of live dance and music performed at the Yerba Buena Forum in San Francisco which was received to popular and critical acclaim. Moulton currently lives in Oakland California and is on the board of Trustees of the Djerassi Resident Artist Program.

 

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