Robinson’s decision to offer the younger Norwegian choreographer a bigger stage also offers Denver a glimpse into a richer world.
On a summer afternoon, Norwegian choreographer Thomas Talawa Prestø was watching as two dancers from his Oslo-based company, Tabanka Dance Ensemble, put another dance company’s artists through the paces of one of his new works. Bob Marley played over the speaker system in the rehearsal room of the Five Points home of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance.
This weekend, Robinson’s “Firebird” and Prestø’s “Catch Ah Fire” arrive at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House as part of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance’s fall show. It was 2019 and the two talked about collaborating then, but life — and sorrow — intervened. First, there was the pandemic and its upending effects on the performing arts. COVID forced the company to celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020 virtually. Then in spring of 2022, Robinson’s husband, Tom, a co-founder of the company and himself an outsized, beloved figure in Denver, died.
It was her work with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra conductor Marin Alsop that led Robinson to take on “Firebird.” “She loved working with me,” recounted Robinson. “She was just becoming a really famous conductor, and she would always say, ‘Cleo, what about this? What about ‘Aida’? What about that?’ Once she said, ‘Why don’t we do “Firebird?”'” Robinson admitted that initially, she was not especially interested in “Firebird. “But,” she told Alsop, “I am interested in Pele.
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