Bonus Round
Daniels + Kimper/Rosenthal + Shurin

With original text by writer Aaron Shurin and original music by Paula Kimper (and Moritz Rosenthal), this solo for and by Daniels concerns itself with the ironies and situations arising out of living and surviving with HIV disease.

Bound Feet
Daniels + Bach

Using three selections from Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier, Daniels's duet portrays, in episodic fashion, one man's struggle guided by a visiting spirit.

Cinder
Gotheiner + Hykes

Zvi Gotheiner created this shaman-like solo for Mr. Daniels to the eerie and haunting music of David Hykes.

Ghazi
Daniels + Beethoven

Daniels's acclaimed solo to the third movement of Beethoven's last quartet reflects a passage from the material world to the ethereal.

Landscape
Gillis + Grieg

Christopher Gillis's last solo, originally created for his sister, Margie, chronicles his response to his own mortality.

Ocean Walk
Fenley + Payne

Maggi Payne's score created of white noise inspired Molissa Fenley's solo of water and shore imagery in her enigmatic and poetic style.

Thirteen Anniversaries
Daniels + Bernstein

Culled from Leonard Bernstein's 29 short piano works, Daniels takes Bernstein's impulse and rededicates each section to honor or memorialize important and influential individuals affecting his life.

Wee Hours
Daniels + Paderewsky, Falla, Satie, dello Joio, Poulenc, Copland, Savage, Oldham, Hersch

In solos and duets for an ensemble of seven performers, Daniels explores the form of the nocturne in dances about hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, nostalgia and reverie.

Weskit, Hanky, Tinderbox
Baker + Cowell

Set to four Henry Cowell piano pieces, Peggy Baker crafted a work of humor and irony, contrasting an inner life sometimes at odds with an outer life.

Photos: Danielle Freedman + Carol Rosegg