Among the works choreographed by Princeton dance faculty to be
showcased at the Dec. 8-9 concerts is "She Loves Me" by Edisa Weeks.
With her New York company Delirious, she will perform the dark comedy
set to love songs by Patsy Cline and Martha Reeves and the Vandellas.
Shown here with Weeks is Andrew Vaughn.
Photo: Julie Lemberger
At left: The Pittsburgh-based Bodiography
Contemporary Ballet will perform "Meditation on a Square" by Head of Dance
Ze'eva Cohen. The work was inspired by sacred
architecture, music and folk dances from her recent trip to Barcelona,
Spain.
Photo: Brant Thomas Murray
Below left:
Faculty member Rebecca Lazier's Brooklyn-based troupe Terrain will
premiere "Serenade," choreographed to Pyotr
Tchaikovsky's score of the same name.
Photo: Ron Compton
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Professional companies present work of dance faculty
Posted November 27, 2006; 04:36 p.m.
Professional companies from New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
will perform recently choreographed work by Princeton University's dance faculty in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8-9.
"New
Dances: Princeton Faculty in Concert" will be the first faculty dance
concert at the Berlind Theatre, which is part of the McCarter Theatre
Center and opened in 2003.
It will feature works by Head of Dance Ze'eva Cohen and faculty members Meghan Durham, Dyane Harvey, Rebecca Lazier and Edisa Weeks.
The five eclectic dances featured draw on personal stories, images and
music to convey powerful statements about the human condition.
Cohen's
"Meditation on a Square," to be performed by Pittsburgh-based
Bodiography Contemporary Ballet, was inspired by sacred architecture,
music and folk dances from her recent trip to Barcelona, Spain.
Durham's company, Philadelphia-based Merge, will perform "Fragment of
(Me)mory." Choreographed to music by Alexander Borodin, the dance draws
a metaphor for memory as a physical event by juxtaposing precise
physicality with alternative light sources to illuminate and obscure
the dancers.
Harvey integrates text and music in her danced
portrayal of Sechita's dreams from Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls
Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf," representing a
woman's journey to self-acceptance.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 for students and seniors, and are available through the McCarter box office at (609) 258-2787 or www.mccarter.org.