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MANIPURI DANCE WITH Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri
PERFORMANCE - Sunday, september 9, 6:30 PM
Haverford College . . . Details TBA
Class or demonstratoin at Bryn Mawr College. . .Details TBA

Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri will be leading a tour of classically trained Manipuri Dancers. They will be performing and giving a class at Haverford and giving a presentation at Bryn Mawr. Jhaveri is a classical Manipuri Dancer, Research scholar, teacher is one of the four internationally renowned Jhaveri Sisters, whose name has become synonymous with Manipuri Dance. She has dedicated her life to preserve, perpetuate and propagate the classicism of Manipuri dance under the able guidance of Guru Bipin Singh. Pahkhuri Agrawal (HC 06) will be dancing with the troupe!
Tentative schedule...check back after September 1st.
At Haverford College
--Sunday, Sept. 9th : Performance, Haverford College, 4.30 pm
--Monday, Sept. 10th ,Lecture "Manipuri Dancing: Temple to Theater" Chase,Haverford College 4:15 pm
--Wednesday: Sept. 12th Lecture-Demonstration "The Role of Rhythm in Manipuri Dance and Drumming," in GIAS(Gardiner)Multi-purpose Room 7pm
At Bryn Mawr
--Tuesday Sept. 11th Lecture -Demonstration, "Classical Elements of Manipuri Dance" Goodhart Music Room (BMC), 7.30 pm...RECEPTION follows

YIN MEI
NOMAD: THE RIVER
Friday, Sept. 28
8 p.m., Goodhart Theater
followed by conversation with the Artist
(Free to tri-co students, faculty, staff...for tickets contact ARTS OFFICE at 610-526-5210)

MASTER CLASS
Thursday September 27th, 4-5:30 PEM STUDIO
Free, but dancers who are not enrolled in the Modern III course, should just call to reserve a space. 610/526-5208 or lcarusoh@brynmawr.edu

Nomad: the River conveys with stunning poetic clarity the impact of memory, history and cultural traditions on the journey of life. Beguiling and mysterious, this multimedia dance-theater piece invokes the potent force of two fabled rivers — China's Yellow River and the Ganges in India — plumbing Yin Mei's experiences as a child during China's Cultural Revolution and her subsequent path as an intercultural artist in America.

"The greatly gifted Yin Mei works from a deep place ... Nomad brushes our mind with images whose poetry ensnares us, whose enigmas taunt us." — The Village Voice.

Supported by Dance Advance, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts.

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BALLET WORKSHOP
Studio Showing....late November...watch for time and date

The Ballet Workshop Students, under the guidance of Anne White, formerly with the Pennsylvania Ballet and the co-founder and director of MIRO, will present an informal rehearsal/showing of the work they have been doing this semester.

PARTNERING WORKSHOP
with DAVID BRICK
Pem Dance Studio
Time/Date TBA

…how to lift, catch, hold, lower, heave, suspend, assist, turn or in other ways imaginable work with a partner…skill that every dancer should know!
... open to all levels of movers, with DAVID BRICK from HEADLONG DANCE COMPANY. First class is mandatory if you plan to take the second class.



 photo: JJ Tiziou

FALL STUDENT DANCE CONCERT
Mid-November...watch here for details
Marshall Auditorium / Haverford
November 17 and 18 Times TBA

Free and Open to the public,Reception follows

Like Modern dance? Hip-hop? Ballet? Bhangra?Come see your friends, roomies, classmates, team mates dance in a variety of student choreographed works and talk with them afterwards at the reception… Free admission

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Look for announcements for Field Trips and
Dance Composition I studio showings at the end of the semester







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DANCE FACULTY WORK
TBA
Free Admission, Reception Follows

For information call 610-526-5210

Tabitha/In Concert
Early March...details TBA
Pem Dance Studio
Free admission but you must reserve a seat; Reception follows
This year's Tabitha concert is coordinated by Adaobi Kanu
who is presenting her senior project.
Watch for posters telling you how to reserve your seat.

INDIA JAZZ SUITES
Friday, Feb. 15
8 p.m., Goodhart Theater
(Free to tri-co students, faculty, staff...for tickets contact ARTS OFFICE at 610-526-5210)

MASTER CLASS TBA

India Jazz Suites brings together Pandit Chitresh Das, a master of the Indian dance form kathak, and Emmy Award-winner Jason Samuels Smith (Bring in Da' Noise, Bring in Da' Funk), who's been called "one of the brilliant young talents reanimating the art of tap dancing" ( Voice of Dance ). Their groundbreaking collaboration explores the movement and dance rhythms of their respective forms, accompanied by North Indian classical and jazz music ensembles. India Jazz Suites won the prestigious Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Best Ensemble Performance of the Year (2007)."Alone they're capitivating. Together, they're magic — Voice of Dance

A pre-show talk with Dr. Pallabi Chakravorty on kathak and the expanding boundaries of traditional Indian dance will be presented at 7:15 p.m

SPRING DANCE CONCERT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 25th AND 26th
7:30 PM   GOODHART
Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore students perform in works by faculty, guest, and student choreographers ranging from ballet, to modern, to funk, to African.

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Look for
-- announcements for Field Trips
--Dance Composition II studio showings at the end of the semester
--MayDay suprises







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