Anne Gehman and Karen Swiatocha are among the dancers performing with the Fusionworks Dance Company in its fall concert series.

Allison Swiatocha

Fusionworks Dance Company opens its 22nd season tomorrow and Saturday with a performance at Rhode Island College. The production will involve one piece performed by the junior company Fusionworks II, and five pieces performed by the main company, including two premieres.

“Yoked” was choreographed by Karen Swiatocha, a Fusionworks dancer, and features the music of Cowboy Junkies and Barry Black. The piece is performed by five female dancers. The piece, according to Deb Meunier, Fusionworks’ artistic director, “is an intimate glimpse into a community of women and explores the unique solidarity that is born from shared burdens.”

The other premiere is “Double Stop: Longshore Drift,” choreographed by Meunier to the music of Pat Metheny, which is the inspiration for the piece.

“I was listening to the music while gazing at the ocean this past summer and the movement vocabulary came from staring at waves, currents, seaweed and white froth atop waves crashing on rocks. Double stop is a musical term for one instrument directly mirroring another. The body mirrors Pat Metheny’s music.”

The production also includes “The Distant Aidenn,” which Meunier choreographed and premiered last spring. It involves the music of George Winston and three dancers and three perspectives of the same person. “Vesperae,” choreographed by Meunier and first presented in 2002, presents the choral work Vesperae Solennes du Confessore and the music of Mozart. And from 1993 is Meunier’s “In Lieu of the Next Goddess,” which was inspired by a trip Meunier took to Mexico where she saw several small Catholic churches.

“It started me thinking about the many cultures where Christianity subsumed pre-Christian religions that centered around female goddess figures, but not quite completely, and the two coexist.”

Fusionworks Dance Company’s fall concert is tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m. in Sapinsley Hall at Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave., Providence. While Saturday’s show starts at 8 p.m., you can have it start at 6:30 p.m. in what’s called a “completely unwrapped” show, which includes a reception with Deb Meunier, the company’s artistic director, and a backstage tour to meet the dancers and see the pre-performance preparations. In both shows each dance will be preceded by a discussion of the artistic decision-making that went into it.

Tickets for each show are $20 to $30, $18 for seniors and $10 for students. The “completely unwrapped” version of Saturday’s show is $50. Call (401) 456-8144. For more information, visit www.fusionworksdance.org.

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