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life and vitality of their own.
The .obfuscating solo, initially
existing only in relationship to
another body, became its own
event.
The goal of this exercise,
Peter explained, was to engage
the students’ movement aware-
ness both internally and exter-
nally. Rather than creating a
piece of movement and then
placing it within a spatial com-
position, he asked them to
simultaneously engage the
architecture of the body as well
as the architecture around it.
Peter’s relationship to space
permeates his work. In his
notes about a recent work, Felt
Presence of and Absence, he
says, “For many years, I have
reflected about the visceral,
sensual quality of this thing we
call ‘space.’ As a choreograph-
er, I think about ‘spaces’ in the
body as areas of movement ini-
tiation; the body itself as it
moves through and occupies
space; how certain structures,
when placed, help to define
and the movement through and
in it. The act of transition,
small or large, has spatial
integrity.” l
Felt Presence of an Absence
was commissioned by
Middlebury College, where
Peter is on the dance faculty, in
celebration of the college’s
Bicentennial. The evening-
length work, choreographed in
collaboration with a company
of undergraduate and profes-
sional alumni dancers, was per-
formed at the Cunningham

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Studio in New York this spring.

Peter is notjust a choreogra-
pher, however. During his 20-
year involvement in the per-
forming arts, he’s gone many
places and done many things to
keep food on the table. He is a
longtime member of Terry
Creach’s all male company of
dancers, Creach/Company. He
is a member of a performance
improvisation ensemble, and is
on the faculty of an annual
summer intensive workshop,

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Improvisation, held on the
Bennington College campus.
He is also an actor who fre-
quently appears in Middlebury
College theatre productions,
and perfonns with the Potomac
Theatre Project in Washington,
D.C. His other theatre credits
include A.R.T. and Triangle
Theatre in Boston.

He has received a Meet the
Composer grant in
Massachusetts and in Vermont,
a Dance Umbrella commission,
guest artist residency at Rhode

Island College, and a
Massachusetts Council on the
Arts and Humanities Award.
Peter has worked at various
colleges and in numerous com-
munities throughout the US,
Europe, and New Zealand. As
guest artist, Peter has taught
and performed in Amsterdam,
Germany, France, and Italy.
When he’s in town, he lives
in an efficiency apartment
overlooking the Middlebury
Falls. It is furnished primarily

by light, books, plants, and pic-
tures and momentos from
friends, providing a simple
serenity. He is a man of wry
humor and quick wit, always
observing the ridiculous in
himself and any situation. He is
passionate, mercurial, enigmat-
ic, unpredictable, and generous
of heart and spirit.

Jennifer Ponder is the light- a

ing designer and technical
director for the Middlebury
College Dance Program. V

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