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News From Lane Community College
Department of Music Dance and Theater Arts
February 2, 2009
COLLABORATIONS 2009 DANCE CONCERT- DANCE INSPIRATIONS FROM AROUND OUR PLANET
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| Photo of Dancing People Company, with dancers Veronica DeWitt and former Lane dancer Alonzo lee Moore IV. |
February 26, 27, 28 at 8:00pm
Lane Community College Performance Hall
Tickets $10/general admission;
$8 students and seniors
Tickets at 2011sitearchive.lanecc.edu/tickets and at the door.
Collaborations 2009 presents new and diverse dance works by Lane Dance Faculty ranging from hip-hop to postmodern dance. This years guest artists include the renowned Dancing People Company, featuring Lane alumni Alonzo Lee Moore IV. Walter Kennedy joins Bonnie Simoa for their new duet Thirst. Shannon Mockli from the University of Oregon Dance Department presents her heady Trio with the Johns, a dance commentary set to a reading of Jasper Johns artist statement by the composer John Cage.
Dancing People Company, based in Ashland, Oregon and directed by Robin Stiehm and Peggy Paver, has performed in Belarus, Poland, Japan and St. Petersburg, Russia. For Collaborations 2009, they will perform, Peggy Pavers’ Ascending Uluru, a visually striking and exhilarating journey to the center of the Australian outback. Their second piece will be A Safe Place to Fall, a stately, adagio quartet about finding a haven, place where we have the support of friends, even in our weaknesses.
Walter Kennedy joins Bonnie Simoa performing Thirst, choreographed by Mary Oslund and funded in part by the Oregon Arts Commission. Inspired bu the dry wit of Taiwanese film director Tsai Min-Iiang, Thirst has a strangely magical realism and a blend of gormal grace and vivid fragmentation. With original music by Katie Grier the dance traverses heady terrain exploring pollution and consumption.
Bonnie Simoa premiers Rubaiyat , a group piece choreographed for the Lane Dance Company. Set to the music of Sussan Deyhim from Iran, nine dancers etch stories in space in duets, trios and quartets, creating landscapes and fables with their soft gestures and splendid movements. Forms magically morph, emerge and recede in the sumptuous costumes of Mari Dewitt.
Also featured will be exciting new work by Sarah Nemecek, Anita Sanford, and Margo Van Ummersen.
Lane Community College is an equal opportunity affirmative action institution.
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PIO: Joan Aschim, aschimj@lanecc.edu 541-463-5591
For Information: John Watson, watsonj@lanecc.edu 541-463-5161
