Fragments of Time

September 20 at 8:00 PM
September 21 at 8:00 PM
September 22 at 2:00 PM

at the New Hazlett Theater
6 Allegheny Square E, Pittsburgh, PA 15212​

Buy Tickets

Children's Performance
September 21 at 4:00 PM
Click HERE to find out more about our interactive Children's Performance! 

---

Fragments of Time will feature Artistic Director’s Alan Obuzor’s work Un-Preservation of Humanism, which first premiered in 2016. This work is set to the stirring and emotional music of Ezio Bosso. In this piece, the dancers are on pointe while melding together movement that is grounded, visceral, and human. This piece abstractly takes a look at humans, human conflict, and the way that some groups of people have treated, ‘othered’, and subjugated their fellow humans throughout our existence as a species. Throughout our history humans have at times struggled with a lack or loss of compassion which has enabled them to dehumanize others; Un-Preservation of Humanism explores what this can look like. 

The program will also showcase Alan’s newest work What is a Life?, which explores concepts of the universe and an individual's place in it. Alan has jumped into a new avenue of creativity by writing a spoken work poem which will be featured in this new piece. The rest of the soundscape for this piece features other spoken word poems, as well as music by artists such as Old Sea Brigade and Gregory Alan Isakov.

​Join us to witness in-person this striking, emotional and thought provoking performance - On stage September 20-22!

​*Group sales available for groups of 10 or more - Contact: 412-322-8332.
​*For more information about accessibility, contact Marjorie Liese at [email protected]​​
​

Texture Contemporary Ballet is a Pittsburgh-based dance company that fuses the power and precision of classical ballet with the freedom and creativity of contemporary dance to surprise and delight audiences and empower the next generation of dancers and choreographers.

We were founded in 2011 by Alan Obuzor, and since then we have been creating and presenting predominantly new and original dance works for people who love to be inspired through dance. In our work, we enable our artists to take creative risks, and we help our audiences to experience their thoughts and emotions by forming connections through live movement and dance.
​

​Texture's season is made possible in part with generous support from:

• ​​The Heinz Endowments​​
• Grant from PACE through the Capacity Building 1 Program, a program of the Pittsburgh Cultural Treasures Initiative (PCTI)
  

• ​New Hazlett Theater ​​​
• Individual Donors​
• Corporate Donors