End-Of-Semester Dance Showcase - Press Release
December 3, 2014
Lewis Center for the Arts previews work for 2015 Spring Dance Festival
Also presents a series of end-of-semester showings of new student choreography
Photo caption: Students in the Program in Dance performing
Photo credit: Julie Lemberger
What: Preview of works to be presented by Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance at the 2015 Spring Dance Festival at Princeton University
Who: Students perform works by Stephen Petronio, David Neumann, Susan Marshall, MarjaniForté, ZviGotheiner, and Jodie Gates
When:Wednesday, December 10 at 8:00 p.m.
Where: Patricia and Ward Hagan ’48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau St.
Free and open to the public
What/Who: End of semester showings of class work and new student choreography created during fall 2014 courses in dance at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts
When: December 8 at 3:30 p.m.; December 10 at 1:00 p.m., 3:30 p.m., and 5:00 p.m.; December 11 at 7:00 p.m.; December 12 at 12:00 noon; and January 8 at 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Where: Patricia and Ward Hagan ’48 Dance Studio at 185 Nassau St. and Dance Studio (Room 108) at New South on the Princeton campus
Free and open to the public
(Princeton, NJ) The Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Dance will preview works that will be performed at the 2015 Spring Dance Festival on December 10 at 8:00 p.m. in the Patricia and Ward Hagan ’48 Dance Studio on the Princeton campus. The Center will also present a series of showings of new choreography created by students during the past semester on December 8, 10, 11 and 12 and on January 8 in the Hagan Dance Studio and New South Dance Studio. All performances are free and open to the public.
For the Dance Festival preview on the evening of December 10, students will perform repertory works they have been learning and rehearsing since September by Jodie Gates (staged by Jennifer Lott); ZviGotheiner; Susan Marshall, Director of the Program in Dance, (staged by Luke Miller); and Stephen Petronio (staged by OriFlomin); as well as new works by MarjaniForté and David Neumann. The fully staged works will be presented at the Festival on February 20 through 22 at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center.
The schedule for the end-of-semester showings of student work and performances is as follows:
Monday, December 8 at 3:30 p.m. - “The American Dance Experience and Africanist Dance Practices” taught by Dyane Harvey-Salaam, a studio course that introduces students to American dance aesthetics and practices, with a focus on how its evolution has been influenced by African American choreographers and dancers. This course involves the study of movement practices from traditional African dances, dance of the African diaspora, American jazz dance, modern dance, and American ballet. New South Dance Studio (Room 108)
Wednesday, December 10 at 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. –two different classes of “Introduction to Movement and Dance” taught by Aynsley Vandenbroucke, a course designed for beginning dancers that incorporates a combination of movement techniques, improvisational dance, choreography, and discussion of the social, political, and cultural questions that surround dance. Hagan Dance Studio
Also on December 10 at 5:00 p.m. – “Modern Dance: Beginning Technique and Choreography”taught by John Heginbotham, a course that emphasizes placement and movement efficiency and exploration of dancing to different rhythms, tempos and styles of music and the body’s relationship to space and gravity. The course also focuses on choreographic composition that explores structural elements and movement vocabularies that contribute to a dance’s overarching impact and content. Hagan Dance Studio
Wednesday, December 10 at 3:30 p.m. - “Introduction to Ballet” taught by Tina Fehlandt, a course in which students learn the fundamentals of ballet and work to gain an understanding of its physicality, artistry, and principles of alignment, as well as its historical origins and cultural influences. Hagan Dance Studio
Thursday, December 11 at 7:00 p.m. - “Dance on Camera/DIY” a cross-listed dance, visual arts and Princeton Atelier courseco-taught by graphic artist Danielle Aubert and Marshall, explores the difference in the impact between live dance on stage and dance on camera in which students created video projects featuring the body in motion. Hagan Dance Studio
Friday, December 12 at 12:00 noon - “Dance Performance Workshop: Intermediate Repertory and Choreography” a course that teaches intermediate dance technique and choreography, with a focus on contemporary practices. Thechoreography component of this course, taught by Marshall, also calls on students’ collaborative abilities as they work on the development of new dance works. Also for this showing will be the choreographic component of “Dance Performance Workshop: Advanced Repertory and Choreography” also taught by Marshall, a course in which students gain fluency with choreographic tools and movement-generating strategies while developing their own choreographic processes and perspectives. Hagan DanceStudio.
Thursday, January 8 at 3:00 p.m. – “Modern Dance: Beginning Technique and Choreography”, a course that emphasizes placement and movement efficiency and exploration of dancing to different rhythms, tempos and styles of music and the body’s relationship to space and gravity. Taught by Rebecca Lazier, the choreography component of this course focuses onchoreographic composition and explores structural elements and movement vocabularies that contribute to a dance’s overarching impact and content. Hagan Dance Studio
Thursday, January 8 at 5:00 p.m. – The choreographic component of “Advanced Dance Performance and Choreographic Projects” also taught by Lazier, is for seniors and focuses on students' senior thesis projects in new choreography and on enhancingstudents'artistry as performers. Some of these works will be presented in the Program in Dance’s senior dance collaborative concert in April. Hagan Dance Studio
For more information on this event, the Program in Dance, or any of the more than 100 events presented annually by the Lewis Center for the Arts, visit: arts.princeton.edu.
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