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SPRING 2006
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FIELD TRIP TO SEE THE PENNSYLVAINA BALLET
Saturday, February 4th …8PM at the Merriam Theater in Philadelphia
The Pennsylvania Ballet presents an all-Balanchine program including:Western Symphony, Prodigal Son, and Theme and Variations. Student discount tickets…we provide the transportation. Call Madeline Cantor in the Dance Office for information…526-5208. |
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DANCE FACULTY CONCERT
Friday, February 10th ....7:30 PM Goodhart Theatre
Several members of Bryn Mawr's dance faculty will perform or present work in the annual concert on Friday, Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m. the work will range from the avant-garde to a restaging of excerpts from Petipa's Raymonda. Dance faculty participating in this concert include Mady Cantor, Nichole Canuso, Linda Caruso Haviland, Laura Katz Rizzo, Roko Kawai, Becky Malcom Naib, and Leah Stein. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
CLICK here FOR A FULL LISTING OF BMC DANCE FACULTY. |
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SEAN CURRAN DANCE COMPANY
Friday, February 17th ....at 8 PM in Goodhart Hall
What do you get when you combine the energy and precision of Irish step dancing, the emotional intensity and physicality of Bill T. Jones, and the all out explosiveness of "Stomp?" You get Sean Curran, dancer and choreographer, whom the NY Times describes as an artist who " dances like a soul in free fall, furiously moving his limbs to express sadness, shame, and ecstasy." Curran began his dance training with traditional Irish step dancing, went on to make his mark on the dance world as a leading dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and was an original member of the New York City cast of the Off-Broadway percussion extravaganza "Stomp." He and his company of excellent dancers have toured the US and Europe and are coming to Bryn Mawr . Among the pieces the company will perform is "Aria - Wrestling with Angels" a work premiered just this fall that combines recorded apologies with opera arias by Handel. Tri-co Student tickets to the performance are $5/staff faculty $12.50/General public $15
Members of Mr. Curran's company will conduct a MASTER CLASS in PEM Studio on Thursday, 2/16 at 4 PM. The class is open to dancers at the intermediate level and above. Class is free, but call the Dance Office at 526-5208 to reserve a place. (photo by Josef Astor) |
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TABITHA PERFORMANCE GROUP PRESENTS
AN EVENING OF DANCE WORKS
Senior thesis projects
February 25th & 26th ….. 8pm in Pem Dance Studio
A Common Sense
Choreographed and Directed by Kate Patchett
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Life Story
The Racism Dance Theatre Workshop's culminating project
in collaboration with the dancers and under the direction of
Natalie Bishar
Free Admission ...Reception follows
Seats are limited! Please email to reserve seats
nbishar@brynmawr.edu |
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MASTER CLASSES WITH KIM BEARS-BAILEY
Thursday, February 23, and March 2 ....4-5:30 in Pem Studio
Kim Bears-Bailey will teach two master classes in the style of Katherine Dunham, one of the great US pioneers of modern dance who blended elements of modern and ballet with those of Caribbean dance to create a unique approach to dancing. Ms. Bears joined the noted Philadelphia based modern company, Philadanco, in 1981 and was a featured dancer with the company, winning a prestigious "Bessie," the New York Dance and Performance Award for her performance artistry. Since 1989 she as served as Assistant Artistic Director for the company. She received her BA from the University of the Arts. |
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TAMAGAWA UNIVERSITY TAIKO DRUMMERS AND DANCERS
Monday, April 10th ....7:00 PM in Goodhart
Experience the sights and sounds of Japan with thundering taiko drumming and traditional Japanese dance. This group of forty drummers and dancers from Tamagawa University, one of Japan’s top performing arts universities, was recently ranked among the top 15 professional taiko groups in Japan. The diverse pieces the group will perform incorporate masks, costumes, elements of folk dance, and original compositions by members of the group. This performance is part of the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival, or Sakura Matsuri, presented by International House and Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia.
FREE and open to the public. Reception follows.
Isaburo Hanayagi, a performer and student of both kabuki and taiko drumming and a Master Dancer and choreographer, will lead a Master Class introducing students to the elements of Japanese dance.
Time TBA - in Pem Studio
(Sponsored in part by the Dance Program, the Center for Ethnicities, Communities, and Social Policy, bi-co East Asian Studies, the President's Office, the Japanese Language Department) |
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MASTER CLASS with RON WOOD aka ZEN ONE
An Introduction to Capoeira
Thursday, April 13th ....4-5:30 in PEM STUDIO
Ron Wood aka Zen One is the founder and artistic director of the Zen One Dance Collective; a theater based hip Hop Company that combines dance, martial arts and music. The movement of ZODC is a fusion of House, B-boyin' and Capoeira, with a strong emphasis on maintaining the roots and integrity of each style. Zen began dancing in the clubs of Philadelphia, and in 1995 he joined the highly acclaimed Rennie Harris Puremovement, of which he is still a core member. Zen holds a black belt in Kenpo Karate and the rank of Professor in ASCAB Capoeira. He frequently teaches at dance schools and universities (nationally and internationally), in addition to holding weekly Capoeira classes at the Community Education Center in Philadelphia.
6-8 spaces available, open to tri-co students, but you must call the Dance Office at x5208 to register. All are invited but the class will be taught at the introductory level. |
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SPRING DANCE CONCERT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 21 AND 22
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. Come see your roomies, friends, team mates, colleagues and cheer them on. Student works and works by Myra Bazell, Heidi Cruz, Amanda Miller, Jeannine Osayande, and two etudes (David Parsons and Danny Buraczewski) from the Repertory Etudes project which will be directed by Madeline Cantor and Linda Caruso Haviland.
Free and open to the public. Reception follows.
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MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS ....Sunday April 30th...
AFRICAN DANCE for everyone...Dancer and griot, Jeannine Osayande and drummer, Ira Bond will play, dance, and get folks moving!...on the lawn between Taylor and Canaday...11:30 AM...
...also on for that day,Morris Dancers at 9, May Pole Dancing at 10, May Hole Dancing at 11, and, unfortunately...at the same time as African...Scottish Dancing at 11:30...so lots of ways to kick up your heels. |
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DANCE COMPOSITION II SHOWINGS
Pem Studio…
Final projects
THURSDAY, May 4th
1 PM
PEM STUDIO
refreshments too!
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FALL 2005 |
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Master Class with Jeanne Ruddy
Thursday and Tuesday and , September 22 and 27
Pem Studio
4-5:30 PM for intermediate and advanced dancers
Jeanne Ruddy is a former principal dancer with the Martha Graham Company where she performed throughout the world in leading roles in such Graham works as Diversion of Angels, Deaths and Entrances, Seraphic Dialogue, Clytemnestra, Cortege of Eagles, Embattled Garden, Herodiade, and Appalachian Spring. She has also danced on Broadway in The King and I, starring Yul Brynner and was an original member of Agnes de Mille's Heritage Dance Theatre. In 1999, Ms. Ruddy founded Jeanne Ruddy Dance where she is Artistic Director and a choreographer and performer. The company works in a new center for dance that she has developed, The Performance Garage. http://www.ruddydance.org
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FROM TALLEY BEATTY TO PHILADANCO...the legend continues
Lecture...Tuesday, September 27th 7PM
Goodhart Music Room
Join noted dance scholar, Dr. Brenda Dixon Gottschild as she discusses the life and work of pioneering African-American dancer and choreographer, Talley Beatty. Dixon Gottshcild is a dance critic, historian, performer and the author of several books, the latest of which is The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool.
Free and open to the public. Reception follows.
Master Class...Thursday, September 29th 4PM Pem Studio
Warm-up precedes learning segments from the work...Free and open to intermediate and advanced dancers, but if you are not in the Bryn Mawr Modern III class, call 610-526-5208 to reserve a place.
Performance…FRIDAY September 30th 8PM Goodhart Theatre
student tickets....$5
This nationally acclaimed company has been described as style "visceral — fierce and sensuous by turns — elegant ." Join us for their reconstruction of choreographer Talley Beatty’s 1947 masterwork Southern Landscape, which chronicles the trials and joys of Blacks during the Reconstruction Period through a series of dance vignettes. It includes the powerful solo "The Mourner’s Bench," which has become a modern dance classic. Other works from the repertory will be presented as well.
Reception follows
This project funded, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and by a Dance Advance grant funded through the Pew Charitable trusts and administered by the University of the Arts.
(Top photo: Lois Greenfield; Bottom photo: Deborah Boardman, Eric M. Sanford, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow) |
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The Russian Department and the Dance Program with the sponsorship of the 1902 lecture fund are delighted to present Dr. Tim Scholl lecturing on "Waking Sleeping Beauty: Reviving a Pre-Revolutionary Ballet in Post-Soviet St. Petersburg" on Thursday, October 27 at 5:00 pm In Thomas 110. Scholl participated in the planning and production of the Maryinsky Ballet's reconstruction of Sleeping Beauty and his talk will discuss the political, social, and aesthetic complexities enmeshing the performing arts in Russia today. Dr. Scholl is on the faculty at Oberlin and is the director of the Oberlin Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies. In addition to his work in Russian language and literature, Scholl is a dance critic and has also written and spoken widely on the dance, particularly, ballet. He is the author of numerous articles on dance, book reviews, encyclopedia articles, performance reviews, translations, and program notes as well as the book, From Petipa to Balanchine: Classical Revival and the Modernization of Ballet. His most recent book is Sleeping Beauty, a Legend in Progress from Yale University Press about which one critic wrote: "This is an admirable book as an admirable book that is nothing less than a history of Russian and Soviet ballet during the twentieth century. Scholl not only charts the changes that took place in Sleeping Beauty over time but also registers the changing attitudes toward the ballet and its aesthetic and how these attitudes reflected the ideological shifts of the past hundred years."-(Lynn Garafola, co-editor of The Ballets Russes and Its World) This is a terrific opportunity to hear and talk with one of the foremost scholars on the Russian ballet!
For more Info go to http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2005-10-20/scholl.shtml |
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FALL STUDENT DANCE CONCERT
Friday, November 11th 8:00 PM
Saturday, November 12th 2:00 PM
Marshall Auditorium / Haverford
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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MASTER CLASS WITH MEREDITH MONK
Friday, November 18th
2PM Pem Studio
Ms Monk and a member of her ensemble will lead a workshop open to students of all levels of performance experience...work with students will reflect Monk's interdisciplinary approach to performance. The LA times described her last full- scale performance work as an. . ."intensely moving, drop-dead gorgeous can't-be-categorized fluid piece of meditative music, movements and mileu. . ." In her own words, "I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema." Described as one of the most influential women performers and artists in the US, she is, nevertheless, intent on sharing her art and gracious in her way of working with others. Come and participate in this remarkable experience. Open first to tri-co students and students of MCCC where Monk and her ensemble will be performing on Saturday, November 19th. Please call 610-526-5208 to reserve a space.
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, musical theater works, films and installations. A pioneer in what is now called "interdisciplinary performance. "Monk creates works that thrive at the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light and sound. She has alternately been proclaimed as a "voice of the future" and "one of America's coolest composers." During a career that spans more than 35 years she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major creative force in the performing arts. Monk has received numerous awards throughout her career, including the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Award in 1995, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, three "Obies" (including an award for Sustained Achievement), two Villager Awards, a "Bessie" for Sustained Creative Achievement, the 1986 National Music Theatre Award, sixteen ASCAP Awards for Musical Composition and the 1992 Dance Magazine Award. http://www.meredithmonk.org
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