Foundry
Sun/29, Headlands Center for the Arts

WHILE AT THE School of American Ballet, the country's premier training ground for dancers, Alex Ketley and Christian Burns had their minds on perfectly executed cabrioles, tour jetés, and entrechats. Today they are more likely to get excited about the way a movement translates from the screen to the stage, or about the relationship between visuals and dancing. They may have spent the past two years realizing someone else's ideas – most recently they danced with Alonzo King's ensemble – but they have never given up their own work with their four-year-old multimedia dance company, the Foundry. The Foundry's pieces tend to be wild and woolly, yet they float on top of formal values, thanks to the dancers' ballet training. Their first full-length work was 2001's wondrous Capacity for Shallowness. For their latest piece, the largely improvised New Work, the duo are going out on a limb by dropping the safety net of control in favor of trusting their experience, intuition, and collaborators. The hour-long New Work was put together with Bengali-born artist Ansuman Biswas and Cincinnati musician, instrument builder, and puppeteer Anthony Luensman, whom Ketley and Burns met in 2001 when all had residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts. 1 and 4 p.m., Bldg. 952, gym, 944 Fort Barry, Sausalito. $5-$8. (415) 331-2787, www.headlands.org. (Rita Felciano)