Dance Director's Invitational Autumn Dance Festival
Dance Director, Elizabeth Bergmann, welcomes two visiting dance companies to the Harvard campus to perform and teach. Concerts will be held in the Rieman Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1 at 8pm with classes being held on Saturday, December 1 and Sunday, December 2, also in the Rieman Center.
The Carol La Chapelle Dance Company from Trinidad, West Indies, will perform Love After Love based on the poetry of Nobel poet laureate, Derek Walcott. Members of the company will teach classes in Caribbean Dance. The stillMoving Dance Company, consisting of the professional dance faculty from Shenandoah University, will perform Bergmann's commissioned new work, Delicate Balance, based on the four elements, with a new score by Karen Follett, and visuals by artist Julie Lea. In addition, the stillMoving Dance Company will perform other dances from their repertory and teach classes in jazz, ballet, modern, and Chinese Opera dance.
A new work by Harvard dance instructor, Margot Parsons, will be premiered.
Jodi Allen, a dance instructor who has recent;y joined the Harvard faculty,
will perform the very physical piece choreographed by Bergmann especially
for Ms. Allen titled Undone.
Classes are free. Sign up for classes in the Dance Office in Agassiz House. For tickets, call the Harvard Box Office @ 617.496.2222 : $10/$5 for students and seniors.
Schedule:
Friday, November 30
8pm Director's Invitational Autumn Dance Concert
Saturday, December 1
10:00am-11:30am Erica Helm,
(BALLET- Int. Adv.) accompanied by Karen Follett
12noon - 1:30pm Sharon Butcher, (MODERN DANCE- Int. Adv.) accompanied by Karen Follett
1:45pm - 3:15pm
(JAZZ- Int. Adv.) Alan Arnett
3:30 - 5:00pm
(CARIBBEAN DANCE) Sonja Dumas
8pm Director's Invitational Autumn Dance Concert
Sunday, December 2
1:00pm - 2:30pm
(CHINESE OPERA DANCE) Ting-Yu Chen
2:45pm - 4:30pm
(CARIBBEAN DANCE) Carol LaChapelle
