This year's inspiring and diverse Spring Dance Festival will feature advanced students performing in dances by MacArthur Genius Award winners Mark Morris and Susan Marshall in addition to contemporary works by Faculty Ze'eva Cohen and Edisa Weeks; guest choreographer Marianela Boan, and selected advanced student choreographers.

Friday, February 22, 2008 - 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 2:00 p.m. & 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 1:00 p.m.

Berlind Theatre
McCarter Theatre Center

Spring Dance Festival Professional Pieces

Name By Name

Choreographer: Susan Marshall
Music: David Lang
Staged by: Susan Marshall & Co. (Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke Miller, Darrin M. Wright, Petra van Noort)
Dancers: Briana Beamon ’10, Kelsey Berry ’10, Stephanie Chen ’09, Theresa Cho GS, Penny Enomoto ’08, Jordan Hussey-Andersen ’10, Lianna Kissinger-Virizlay ’10, Chelsea Kolff ’09, Amy Laviers ’09, Jillian Olsen ’08, Sarah Outhwaite ’09, Laura Robertson ’10, Julie Rubinger ’09, Sydney Schiff ’10, Elizabeth Schwall ’09, Katie Wong ’10, Brooks Yang ’11
Premiere: The Juilliard School, New York, NY, 2007.

Play

Choreographer: Edisa Weeks
Commissioned Music: Fibre (Joe Mendelson, Ben Nitze, Mac Quayle)
Dancers: Evie Austell ’09, Rajiv Ayyangar ’08, Lauren Cubellis ’11, Joanna Foster ’08, Sebastian Heil ’10, Pancho Mulongeni ’09, Cynthia Organ ’10, Megan Prier ’11, Ery Shin ’08, Bridget Wright ’11

Shifting Ground

Choreographer: Ze'eva Cohen
Music: Charlie Morrow: "Breath Chant" from New Wilderness Audiographics tape 7706A; Glen Velez; Natalie Gilbert.
Dancers: Jessica Baylan '08, Teresa Cho GS, Andrea Francis ’11, Chelsea Kolff '09, Jillian Olsen '08, Francine Saunders '08
Premiere: Ze’eva Cohen and Dancers, Riverside Dance Festival, New York, NY, 1983.

Office

Choreographer: Marianela Boan with the collaboration of the interpreters
Music: Christian/Boan
Dancers: Patty Chen ’11, Frances Dayton ’08, Sarah Fingerhood ’10, Erin Muckey ’08, Hans Rinderknecht ’08, Francine Saunders ’08, Eva Wash ’11, Briget Wright ’11

Canonic 3/4 Studies

Choreography: Mark Morris
Music: Piano Waltzes – various composers, arranged by Harriet Cavalli
Staged by: Tina Fehlandt
Dancers: Amy Laviers ’09, Sarah Outhwaite ’09, Hans Rinderknecht ’08, Laura Robertson ’10, Julie Rubinger ’09, Claire-Marine Sarner ’10, Sydney Schiff ’10, Elizabeth Schwall ’09, Katie Wong ’10
Premiere: July 29, 1982 – Washington Hall Performance Gallery, Seattle, Washington

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