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2008-2009

SPRING 2009 DANCE EVENTS

DANCE FACULTY WORK
Friday, February 6     7:30 PM
Pem Studio

Free Admission, Reception Follows

 

For information call 610-526-5210

Tabitha/In Concert
February 28, March 1      7:30 PM

Pem Dance Studio
Free admission but you must reserve a seat; Reception follows

Senior thesis work by Caitlin Romasco, with works by dance major, Caitlin Iles, '09 and chamber musicians, (Saturday) Sadie Martin, Julia Anderson, Scott Muller, (Sunday)Emma Shaw, Simon LInn-Gerstein, Rachel Lim

Watch for posters telling you how to reserve your seat.

BMC Performing Arts Series presents...
BALLET X and MIRO DANCE THEATRE
Friday, February 13
Thomas Great Hall and
Erdman Living Room, 7:30 p.m.

Performances will take place simultaneously; at intermission, audiences will switch venues.

When gifted members of Pennsylvania Ballet started their own company, the dance world took notice. Now, morphed into two contemporary groups, these innovators push the bounds of classical dance. Ballet X showcases the essential beauty of their art in an elegant, stripped-down presentation of works by Princesss Grace Award winner Adam Hougland and Resident Choreographer of Pennsylvania Ballet Matthew Neenan.

Miro Dance Theatre captures the essence of Frida Kahlo’s life and work in the solo Self-Portrait, created and performed by choreographer Amanda Miller with video artist and Pew Fellow Tobin Rothlein. Combining dance, live animation, and video, Self-Portrait will be staged in Erdman Hall, a modernist landmark by renowned architect Louis Kahn.

Ballet: Tara Keating- Monday, April 9 6:30 PM
Working with Media: Amanda Miller, Tobin Rothlein - Thursday, February 12 4:00 PM

Photos by Gabriel Bienczycki and Lindsay Browning

Field Trip to see BALLET BOYZ at the Annenberg. March 17 and 18 at 8 PM. Reduced cost tickets are $15 and the bus is free! Contact mcantor@brynmawr.edu for more information.

BALLET WORKSHOP
Studio Showing....Saturday, April 4th...

The Ballet Workshop Students, under the guidance of Laura Katz Rizzo will present an informal rehearsal/showing of the exceprts from Raymonda that they have been learning this semester.


SPRING DANCE CONCERT
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APRIL 25th AND 26th
7:30 PM  MARSHALL AUDITORIUM/Haverford College

Free and open to the public; reception follows

Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore students perform in works by faculty, guest, and student choreographers ranging from ballet, to modern, to funk, to African.

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Look for
-- announcements for Field Trips
--Dance Composition II studio showings at the end of the semester
--May Day surprises







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FALL 2008
Go to Spring Events
DANCE EVENTS
unless otherwise noted, call the Dance Office
at 610/526-5208 for information

Special Free Event for tri-co students
BMC Performing Arts Series presents...
KATE WATSON-WALLACE/Anonymous Bodies-CAR
Saturday, October 25
7:30PM and 9:00 PM (2 shows)
Athletics Parking Lot
-very limited seating!! reserve your seat by September 15th or you take your chances!
The second show will be followed by a “talk back” with the artists.

Be one of 8 lucky audience members who get to view the piece from INSIDE the car!! After September 15 'friend' the BRYN MAWR COLLEGE PERFORMING ARTS SERIES on FACEBOOK...and you'll automatically be entered into the lottery. If you win, please be prepared to stand, walk, and get in and out of a car during this performance.

Site-based choreographer and Pew Fellow Kate Watson-Wallace presents CAR, the Live Arts Festival hit show that unfolds in and around a moving VW Jetta. Dancers, video projections, and an original sound score highlight the fearsome and familiar in this movement-based installation. “Wild imagination ruled…” The New York Times

Photos by JJ Tiziou

HEADLONG PERFORMANCE INSTITUTE WORKSHOP
Thursday, November 6 from 5:30 to 7
PEM STUDIO

Headlong Performance Institute is a fall semester hybrid-performance training program in Philadelphia. Faculty members are working artists and master teachers, and include artistic directors from Headlong
Dance Theater and Pig Iron Theater Company. A full semester of academic credit is granted to all of our students through Bryn Mawr College.

Come play and learn about HPI at our open workshop and information session led by two of HPI's faculty members. Open to all bi-co students even if you're not currently planning to attend the institute

Wear clothes you can move in!

Field trip to see
RUBBERBANDANCE
Friday, November 7 at 8:00 PM
Annenberg Center at UPenn

Group rate ticket is $20. Office for the Arts provides free bus transport

Founded by Victor Quijada, former soloist of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, a 2004 National Dance Award winner and an award-winning rap video choreographer,Rubberbanddance fuses ballet and hip hop into an electrifying blend. The company presents a world premier in Philly.

BRING IT! Adventures in Dance Competition
Saturday November 15th
12:00 – 2:00 PM
Pem Dance Studio    Free!

Melanie Stewart will present a 2 hour dance theater workshop entitled BRING IT! Adventures in Dance Competition exploring gaming in pop culture and performance.

Participants will be led through the roles of contestants and judges in a variety of movement/physical theater games using irony, satire and straight-out humor to explore the nature of competition and the lust for power. The workshop offers a chance to step outside everyday roles, hone performance skills and observe the development of new work from the inside. All students are invited to attend. No previous experience is necessary.

Melanie Stewart Dance Theatre will use dance competition to create an original game to be played in performance at the 2009 Live Arts Festival. Imagined as a live interactive dance theater event, students of this workshop will be invited to participate.

At the Bryn Mawr Film Institute...

Robert Altman's dance film
THE COMPANY
with discussion led by former head principal Dance Critic for the NYT (and BMC alum!), Anna Kisselgoff
Wednesday, November 19
Free to bi-co students


We'll meet at PEM ARCH at 6:30 PM and walk over...we'll treat students to coffee/tea afterwards at MilkBoy...BUT you need to let us know if you are interested in going to this event.

Bryn Mawr Film Institute ...on Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr was founded by Bryn Mawr Alum Julia Goodfriend. Additional films which Bryn Mawr students can see for FREE include:
Ballerina
Tuesday, December 9 @ 7:30 PM 
and
Saturday December 13 @ 11:00 AM

FALL STUDENT DANCE CONCERT
November 22 and 23
Marshall Auditorium / Haverford
Free and open to the public; Reception follow
s

Like Modern dance? Hip-hop? Ballet? Bhangra? Come see your friends, roomies, classmates, team mates dance in a variety of student choreographed works and talk with them afterwards at the reception… Free admission

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Look for announcements for Field Trips and
Dance Composition I studio showings at the end of the semester







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2006 SPRING DANCE CONCERT

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