Erick Hawkins Angels of the Inmost Heaven

Angels of the Inmost Heaven Presented as part of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company Lucia Dlugoszewski 2025 Centennial Year Premiered 1971 Washington, DC This performance: University of Nevada Las Vegas, Dept of Dance Choreography: Erick Hawkins Music: Lucia Dlugoszewski Repetiteurs: Louis Kavouras and Katherine Duke Set: Robert Engstrom reimagined by Michele Anderson Lighting Design: Michael Jarett Costumes: Erick Hawkins reimagined by Katherine Gould Dancers: Aricela Boatwright, Arya Bovich, Jason Hortin, Hayley Meier, Cameron Turgeon, Hunter Wallace Angels of the Inmost Heaven is inspired by the book Heaven and Hell by Emanuel Swendenborg, the scientist and theologian who speculated and described the angels of the heavens. For Swendenborg, the angels closest to heaven were the most innocent and pure. Erick Hawkins’ dance, Angels of the Inmost Heaven, is an abstract work that seeks to capture the purity and innocence of motion and sensation. Lucia Dlugoszewsi creates a cacophonous world of sound, where five brass instruments produce sounds of extended range that collide together in the air to shake the world up and produce a new aural poetry. Happy 100th, Lucia. Reconstruction was done with the Erick Hawkins Dance Company and Erick Hawkins' choreographic notes from the LOC.