Dance | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: A new dance-theater work, Halfway to Dawn, explores the life of Pittsburgh jazz great Billy Strayhorn.
Written, directed, and choreographed by Los Angeles-based choreographer David Roussève, the piece explores Strayhorn's life and career as an openly gay African-American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger. The work, says Roussève, “redefines ‘biography’ as the intersection of fact, conjecture, comment, abstraction, and fantasy” and will be performed by his dance company REALITY making their Pittsburgh debut, February 1-2 at Strayhorn’s namesake Kelly Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty.
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