A dance about courage, love and loss
Adam Hougland created Beyond for the Juilliard School Senior Dance Production series in the spring of 1999. It was next performed by the Juilliard Dance Ensemble for their 2000 spring Concert with Juilliard Orchestra, and in the Emerging Masters of American Choreography series in December of 2000. The ballet is set to a lush score by Ralph Vaughan Williams and is danced by Four Women and Four Men. It is a dance about courage, love and loss that examines what happens when we cross the threshold into the unknown. Beyond explore the attraction and repulsion of the unknown against a decor composed chiefly of shadow and light.
