Dancing to a genius in jeans

Craig Smith |
8/7/2008 - 8/8/08

Talking to David Parsons is fun. Not only because the American choreographer is interesting, articulate, and eager to talk about dance, but because he has a world-of-fun view. Certainly the word popped up several times in a recent phone interview about his dance Wolfgang, which Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performs this weekend in a mixed-repertoire program at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.

Set to music by Mozart and commissioned and first danced by ASFB in 2005, Wolfgang is on the slate with two other works in the company's repertoire: Twyla Tharp's Sweet Fields and Helen Pickett's Petal. ASFB performed Parsons' The Envelope here in 2001, and Parsons Dance, the company he founded in 1985, played here for Santa Fe Stages in 1998 and 2001."I feel great they're doing it again," Parsons said from Middletown, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, west of the Hudson River. "I enjoy the company very much; they're good artists. That's hard to achieve, that consistency. My hat's off to those guys."

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