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ImageITHACA, NY - Limited tickets are still available for a one-evening-only performance of Trajal Harrell Dance Style on October 2, 2008, at the Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The dance company will be performing "Quartet for the End of Time," a full-evening dance work choreographed by Harrell for four dancers that takes the story of Olivier Messiaen's famous music of the same name as a foundation for investigating the antagonism between sincerity and irony in our contemporary time.

Set to recorded selections of Messiaen's music of the same name, the dance also incorporates a mix of sound effects and pop music samples as well as being framed by an ongoing slideshow made in collaboration with photographer David Bergé. "Quartet for the End of Time," first heard in 1941 in Görlitz, Germany in a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, was created there by the imprisoned Messiaen and performed by Jewish and Christian prison musicians.

A graduate of Yale Univeristy, Trajal Harrell came to dance through his love of theatre, and his belief that "dance is the bones of acting." After conducting studies of dance at Brown University, The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and the San Francisco Institute of Choreography, Harrell founded Trajal Harrell Dance Style in 1996 and has since performed his cutting-edge dance pieces both nationally and internationally. Harrell has been an artist-in-residence at Movement Research, Bennington College, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center. He is a guest artist and teacher at Yale, and the artist editor-in-chief for the Movement Research Performance Journal.

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