Autumn
music: Tomas Svoboda
choreography: Agnieszka Laska
costumes: Valeria Irenia Perez

Created in 2001, the choreography was well received, both in its initial Mexico presentations by Laska's first professional company, Nomadas del sol, and later in Portland, Oregon, with composer Tomas Svoboda at the piano. The music, originally for koto (Japanese harp) works so well for piano, it was included in Svoboda's first CD of solo piano works on the North Pacific Music record label northpacificmusic.com/PianoWorksVol.1.html, The first time Agnieszka Laska heard the recording she immediately envisioned the opening choreographic gestures which thoroughly seduced her into the ordeal of working out in dance the devilishly complex rhythms, particularly those in the score's the third movement -- the result: a work of both lyrically beautiful exchanges and combative duets, true to the music at every turn.