Mather Dance Center assembles fall collection of dance pieces to be collectively performed as Returning
Reem Azem
Issue date: 11/6/09 Section: Focus
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Throughout history, dance has crossed time and cultural barriers and today, there are numerous forms of dance. This fall, Case's Mather Dance Center has prepared an eclectic program for their fall performance. Undergraduates will be featured as dancers in addition to the graduate students and faculty who, along with guest artists, contributed to the event's choreography.
There are five featured pieces for this year's fall concert. The first is a piece by Sabatino Verlezza called Songs for the Jaguar, representing Verlezza's vision of Mayan and Aztec culture. Since the original performance, additional choreography has been added to enhance the performance.
SUNY Brockport associate professor James Hanson also choreographed a piece for the show called Presently Gone, set to music by Leon Minkus called La Bayadere. Hanson channels postmodernism in this piece conveying intense attachments to human relationships.
The next performance of the night, simply entitled Journey, is choreographed and performed by alumni, featuring music by French chanson master Jacques Brel. Alumna Linda Kahn choreographed a duet for Heather Koniz and Kelli Sanford, who dance as two women on a journey together and apart.
The next piece, Wien is performed by a group of six undergraduates, graduates, and alumni. Originally created by Pascal Rioult and set to La Valse by Ravel, the Mather Dance Center performs its own adaptation of this societal piece.
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