Dance Program presents Dancers’ Showcase: Dancers’ Viewpointe II
What do multi-media projections, little children, original music compositions, Indian culture, sculpture, the Crimson Dance Team and George Balanchine all have in common? They are all part of the upcoming Dancers’ Viewpointe II concert. Taking place in the Rieman Center for the Performing Arts, Agassiz House, March 14,15,and 16 at 8pm, it will showcase choreography of both students and professionals.
The Dance Program has received approval from the prestigious George Balanchine
Trust to perform excerpts of Balanchine’s Who Cares?, performed to
music of George Gershwin. Kyra Strasberg, ballet instructor, and former
principal dancer with Boston Ballet, will stage the work. "This lively
piece is a crowd pleaser, and for the dancers, the trick is to look like
you’re having fun while articulating the challenging steps,"
says Strasberg.
In creating Good-Bye to the Sea, dance director, Elizabeth Bergmann, worked
with the sculptures of Connecticut artist, Sasha Bergmann Lichtenstein
to design a dance that integrates her own poetry with imagery about the
ocean. This work creates an ebb and flow existing between the dancers,
the music, the poetry, and the forms of 5 human sculptures.
Fosse protégé and jazz instructor, Jeff Shade, creates a
second new work for the Dance Program students. Working in a collaborative
nature with the students, he integrates their ideas and concepts with
his own Fosse-style movements set to original music.
Student choreographers Shelby Braxton-Brooks, Adrienne Minster, Sangita
Shresthova, Ryuji Yamaguchi, and the collaborative GSE team of Caitlin
Durham and Julie Grinfield were chosen last fall to choreograph new works
to complete the evening’s program.
"These Magic Feet", "Xerophilous", "De-Mystifications"
and other works exhibit concert jazz dance at its best, embrace multi-media
‘props’, the creative energies of young school children, original
music compositions and the exploration of unobtainable destinations.
Tickets for Dancers’ Viewpointe II may be purchased through the Harvard
Box Office by calling 617-496-2222 or in person at the Holyoke Center
Arcade.
