Dance Series

Kate Corby and Dancers

Kate Corby & Dancers
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 • 8 p.m.
Esch Hurvis Studio, Warch Campus Center

Kate Corby & Dancers will present two duet excerpts from Passing, an evening-length suite of dances exploring mortality, life cycles and our complex relationship with time.The first section explores both the delicate affection and passionate strife of a young relationship. Much of this excerpt occurs along a blank wall, which serves as both a support and an obstacle for the dancers and their relationship. The second duet investigates a more seasoned, rote relationship using repetition, dry humor and the music of Italian singer Katyna Ranieri.

Kristina Isabelle Dance Company

Kristina Isabelle Dance Company
Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 8:00 p.m.
Esch Hurvis Studio, Warch Campus Center

Kristina Isabelle Dance Company will present The Floating City. This multimedia production explores the place within, a place of feeling stuck or in transition, the place between this world and the world in our heads. It is a surreal exploration of shifting environments, creating a moving landscape of time and relationships inspired by the writings of Haruki Murakami. The Floating City is choreographed and directed by Kristina Isabelle, with set design by Grant Sabin, video design by JR Gualtieri and Jim Forni, music by Michael Wall, lighting design by Julie Ballard and photography by Ryan Bourque. Performers include Isabelle and Diana Deaver.

Aparna Ramaswamy's Sannidhi

Aparna Ramaswamy’s Sannidhi
Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 8:00 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

This new solo work by Aparna Ramaswamy, performed with live music, highlights Indian-American artists of the next generation who retain roots in their collective history while bringing their own voices to the contemporary stage. Sannidhi (Sacred Space) illuminates the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine, whose timeless duality forms the continuous pulse of our universe. In five sections, this work weaves together music and movement, rhythm and lyric, spirit and emotion, creating an invisible link between dancer, musicians and audience.

The presentation of Aparna Ramaswamy’s Sannidhi was made possible by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. Major Support for the NDP is also provided by the Doris Duke Chariable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Past Modern Performance Duo

Past Modern Performance Duo
Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 8:00 p.m.
Esch Hurvis Studio, Warch Campus Center

Dancemaker Rebecca Bryant and percussionist/composer Don Nichols have been performing and creating together since 2002. As PMPD--the past modern performance duo--they integrate movement, sound and theater elements into innovative performance pieces. PMPD has presented their interdisciplinary work, which highlights improvisation and interactive technologies, at festivals, workshops and universities both internationally and across the US. Bryant is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Purdue University, and Nichols is the Music Director for the Dance Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Both inside and outside the concert hall, PMPD follows a collaborative model of developing thought-provoking, visceral, and often humorous performances.

Rebecca Salzer Dance Theatre

Rebecca Salzer DanceTheatre
Bird Lady
Thursday, April 3, 2014 • 8 p.m. Friday, April 4, 2014 • 8 p.m.
Esch Hurvis Studio,Warch Campus Center

Vivian Maier, a nanny in Chicago, used her off-duty hours to wander the streets taking photographs. After Maier’s death, her immense and brilliant body of work was discovered in storage lockers bought at a thrift auction. Inspired by Maier’s life story and penetrating work, Bird Lady examines the relationship between public and private in the life of an artist. Dance artists Liz Burritt, Kristina Fluty and Rebecca Salzer join forces with opera director Kristine McIntyre, composer AlexTemple, videographer Anna Ryndova, and designers Alina Bokovikova and Aaron Sherkow for a cross-disciplinary evening of dance, theatre, music and video.