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Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon
Public information officer: Joan Aschim, (541) 463-5591, aschimj@lanecc.edu
Contacts: Myrna Seifert, publicist for Music, Dance and Theatre Arts Department, (541) 463-5161; Bonnie Simoa, dance program director, (541) 463-5645
Updated release May 11, 2005
Dance faculty and students present new solo works at spring concert
EUGENE, OR - The Lane Community College Spring Dance Concert featuring the works of Lane dance faculty is May 12, 13 and 14 at 8 p.m. in the Performance Hall, Building 6, main campus in Eugene, 4000 E. 30th Avenue.
The Lane Dance Company performs the work of Bonnie Simoa and Kim Vetter. Cheryl Lemmer will present a piece with Lane dancers. Both Bonnie and Kim also will dance new solos. General admission tickets are $10 adults and $8 students and seniors. Tickets will be available at the door beginning one hour prior to the concert. The ticket office information line is 463-5202.
Bonnie Simoa's group piece, "Mercury," explores the spiral as a shape that informs the unfolding of life. Concepts of perspective and place weave through the dance structure, illuminating vantage points as guides to what we see as "real". Complex spatial patterns and multi-dimensional movement continue to return to cyclic orbiting as a metaphor for the ever-changing realities of life. The choreographic process was collaborative springing from improvisations and compositions scripted and directed by Simoa and revealed through the dancers responses to the tasks, cues, and directives.
Simoa will premiere the solo, "Blue Dress Dance No. 2," to music from Puccini's opera, "Tosca." Humorous and extravagant, Simoa explores the meaning of grief, beauty, and destiny.
New dance faculty Kim Vetter presents "Genesis," in a continuing collaboration with composer Charles Lawrence Gran. For an ensemble of eight dancers, the dance explores creation, evolution and transformation through movement and metaphor.
"Kim, Jim, Gymnopedies, 1,2,3" is a solo dance by Kim Vetter to Eric Satie's "3 Gymnopedies" played by Lane faculty pianist Jim Greenwood.
Cheryl Lemmer's "In a Heart's Breath" is danced to music by Ryan Cabrera and reflects the resiliency of the human spirit when someone reaches out to lift pain and sorrow from the soul of another. The choreographer collaborated with the dancers in the making of the dance creating a strong sense of ensemble and personal connection to the dance.###
