SEÁN CURRAN COMPANY BRINGS WIT, PHYSICALITY TO DANCE

Hailed by audiences throughout the world for the physicality and beauty of its movements, The Seán Curran Company is performing at Bryn Mawr College on Friday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. in Goodhart Hall.

The dance company's appearance at Bryn Mawr (a note to parents: the performance may contain adult language or themes) is part of the College's yearlong Performing Arts Series, featuring some of this country's finest performing artists and musicians.

Tickets to individual events in the Performing Arts Series are $15 for the general public, $12.50 for seniors and Bryn Mawr faculty and staff, and $5 for Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore students. Subscription packages offer discounts, mix-and-match ticket flexibility and priority seating. For tickets, call the Office for the Arts at 610-526-5210. The

Known for his wit, intelligence and uncanny physical humor, Seán Curran began his career as a champion Irish step dancer in Boston. He went on to become a leading dancer with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and later was an original member of the New York City cast of STOMP!

In 1997 Curran formed his own company, which has since presented more than a dozen premieres in 45 different venues throughout the United States, Germany and France, including engagements at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. There, he presented Art/Song/Dance, a work set to the music of Broadway composer Ricky Ian Gordon, and performed to the poetry of such writers as Langston Hughes and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Curran's other projects have included works commissioned by the Joyce Theater, the New York Victory Theater, Dance Theater Workshop, Symphony Space, Central Park Summerstage and Celebrate Brooklyn, where the company performed its first major commissioned work, Folk Dance for the Future.

In addition to the repertory he has built for his nine dancers, Curran has choreographed the Broadway production of James Joyce's The Dead and My Life With Albertine for Playwright's Horizons; L'Étoile, Alcina and Turandot for the New York City Opera; Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Shakespeare Theater; and the 20th-anniversary production of Nixon in China for the Opera Theater of St. Louis.

Curran also has created works for the Trinity Irish Dance Company, American Ballet Theatre's studio company, Denmark's Upper Cut Company, Irish Modern Dance Theatre and Dance Alloy, as well as for numerous college and university dance departments.

The Bryn Mawr College engagement is made possible by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program.

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