Faculty Dance/Collaborations
January 18 & 19 7:30 Meany Hall |
Meany Hall will be bursting with talent as UW Dance presents Stravinsky's iconic The Rite of Spring (Koch), José Limón's tribute to Isadora Duncan, Dances for Isadora and the premiere of A Small Piece of the Story (Salk). Faculty artists from UW Dance, Drama, Music and DXARTS combine forces and create choreography, perform music and design costumes for advanced undergraduates, guest artists and community dancers. This ultimate collaboration is certain to be a highlight in the arts on campus this season.
Buy Tickets or call 206-543-4880, or visit UW Arts Ticket Office, 1313 NE 41st Street.
Online patrons have the advantage of choosing their own seats.
General Admission, $18 Advance/$20 at the door
Faculty/Staff/UAA, $16 Advance/$18 at the door
Students/Seniors, $10 Advance/$12 at the door
Tickets are subject to availability. Artists, dates, programs, and prices are subject to change.
This presentation of The Rite of Spring is part of ArtsUW's Rite of Spring Centennial Celebration, a series of performances and lectures centered on the work that premiered in 1913. Click on the green icon to the right for complete information.
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Three Dances, Three Collaborations
There will be something old, something new, and something borrowed at the Dance Program's concert on January 18-19, 2013. All that's missing is something blue.
The concert, Faculty Dance/Collaborations, will feature a classic José Limón dance from 1971, a new work choreographed by Jennifer Salk, and Jürg Koch's reinterpretation of the iconic The Rite of Spring, featuring two dozen dancers. Salk, a Donald E. Petersen Endowed Faculty Fellow, and Koch are faculty in the UW Dance Program. Read more:
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NEW SERIES!
Dance Research Symposium
The UW Dance Program will present a new five part series on dance research January 9 through March 6, 2013. This inaugural event includes public lectures in dance research over the course of ten weeks. Presenting the lectures will be highly respected scholars and researchers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Content, methodology, and approach of the research presented will range from choreographic investigation designed to inform creative process to dance science to philosophy and aesthetics. All lectures are free and open to the public and will be held on the UW's Seattle campus.
Hair Trigger: Femininity, Objectification, and Violence
Catherine Cabeen, MFA, Middlebury College
Wednesday, January 9, 5-6:30pm, Meany 266
An exploration of the historic research and creative process that fuels Catherine Cabeen and Company's latest work, Fire!, which premieres at On the Boards January 17-20.
Catherine Cabeen, MFA, UW (2009) (Artistic Director of Catherine Cabeen and Company (CCC), Dancer, Choreographer), has received choreographic commissions from On the Boards, Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance Theater, the American College Dance Festival NW, the Visa2Dance Festival in Dar Es Salaam, Alsarab Dance Troupe and the Lebanese American University in Byblos Lebanon, Arc Dance Company, and the Cabiri, among others. Cabeen founded CCC in 2009, to explore how interdisciplinary research and collaboration can be used to build new movement vocabularies. The New York Times recently called CCC's Hyphen, "highly kinetic, complex... visually exquisite," and "beautifully performed." Cabeen is a former member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1997-2005), the Martha Graham Dance Company, and Richard Move's MoveOpolis! among others.
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February 27-March 3
Dance Majors Concert
May 15-19
MFA Concert
October 10-13
Chamber Dance Company
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