MAFFEI DANCE Company is performing two world premieres. Through Time and Again, explores the conversation between Baroque structure and contemporary spontaneity, through the Gamba music of composer Carl Friedrich Abel recorded by modern day gamba maestro Paolo Pandolfo. In counterpoint, composer Eran Fink responds to the gamba’s ancient voice through shifting rhythms and harmonic play with a driving contemporary electronic groove. A reflection on sound across time: the old and the new intertwine, challenge, and echo one another. Rainwalker, is inspired by the inner worlds of the short stories of Zeph Ellis Maffei and ponders the human tendency toward the nature of repetition — and the moments when those patterns become destructive. Through spoken text, percussion, and movement, the piece merges the literal and the abstract, the real and the fantastical.