(upbeat music) - Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company's season finale "RE-ACT" is a celebration of dance's ever evolving future.

Artistic director Daniel Charon is here to tell us more about it and his new piece.

Daniel, hi.

- Hi, Mary.

- Okay, welcome, welcome.

- Thank you.

- So your new piece "From Code to Universe" sounds very timely, very fascinating.

Tell us more.

- Yeah, you know, just so fascinated with the idea of memory, the idea of identity and the idea of how technology has such a grasp on who we are.

And so we, with my collaborator Alexandra Harbold we are creating this dance theater piece to sort of delve into that.

It's kind of a meditation on those topics, conversation.

And it's really interesting because it's takes both dance and theater and weaves them together in a really seamless way.

And so we commissioned a playwright, Connor Nelis Johnson, to create a script for us.

And this script is gonna be woven throughout the work, really kind of delving into different facets of relationship, different facets of loss, different facets of kind of reprogramming memory and the kind of ideas around that.

And it should be a really interesting, unique work.

I'm actually performing in it.

- You are?

- Yeah, and I- - Okay.

- Yeah, it's really interesting.

It's my last piece with the company.

It's my last piece.

I'm stepping down after the season and I've never been any in any of my own work.

(Mary gasps) And so I'm gonna be acting alongside an amazing actress named Nicki Nixon, as well as trying to dance a bit as well.

So it's really a kind of labor of love and cathartic moment, but it should be a really beautiful, poetic work.

- Sounds fabulous.

- Yeah.

- And great that you are being showcased in this way!

- Hopefully, yeah!

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very - I can't believe - different for me.

- You're stepping down!

- It feels very appropriate and very of the moment.

- Well, and memory is such a fascinating topic for me.

- Yeah.

- 'Cause I've had friends say, you know, it's always part conjecture.

- Yeah.

And missed memory.

And kind of what we think we remember.

- Yeah, exactly.

- So yeah.

- Anyway, thank you so much.

And I can't wait to see it.

- Okay.

Thanks Mary.

- Bye-Bye.

And if you'd like to know more about this new work, fascinating new work in "RE-ACT", April 18th and 19th at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, go to ririwoodbury.com.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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