SENIOR DANCE MAJORS PRESENT CONCERT

Laura Vriend '05 and Courtney Lewis '05

Collaborative choreography will be on display in Pembroke Dance Studio this weekend when the Tabitha Performance Group and the Bryn Mawr College Dance Program present A Vast Confusion, a senior-thesis dance concert choreographed by Laura Vriend '05 and Courtney Lewis, Haverford '05. Performances will be at 8 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, Feb, 19 and 20; a reception will follow. The concert is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and spectators should make reservations by e-mailing mhume@brynmawr.edu.

A Vast Confusion comprises three shorter pieces.

"Wild Dreams of a New Beginning" was choreographed collaboratively by the four Bi-College dancers who will perform it: Vriend, Lewis, Erika Haglund, Haverford '05 and Kate Patchett '06. It is based loosely on Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem of the same name as well as ideas of destruction and creation of architecturally designed spaces. The dance also features a set designed by Philip Vriend, Laura Vriend's brother.

The other two pieces are collaborations between Laura Vriend and Courtney Lewis.

"When I Am Sad I Eat a Cookie," Vriend says, "presents a dreamy world based on lullabies and the innocent longing for a world where a cookie and a song really can make you feel better." It will be performed by Vriend, Lewis, Patchett, Rachel Friedensen '07, Julie Wise '05, Molly Mulflur '05 and Dolly Orme-Johnson '06.

Vriend describes the third piece, "Lament For Recent History," as "an investigation of memory and popular culture from the nineties and the media saturating our generation's sense of the world we grew up in — a history of the nineties based on movement, memory and media." Performers will include those listed above as well as Sky Stegall '07 and LeeAnn Tanaka, Haverford '05.

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