[NEohioPAL]DANCE 2002: REFLECTIONS opens a week from today at Kent State University

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESENTS THE LATEST IN MODERN DANCE & JAZZ
KSU presents the annual Faculty Dance Concert: Dance 2002: Reflections

Kent, OH - The Dance Division of Kent State University=92s School of Theatre and 
Dance will present Dance 2002: Reflections on November 21 =96 24 in Stump 
Theatre.  The concert presents new, modern dance choreography by Dance 
Division faculty members and guest artist Yueh-Ping Feng, and is performed by 
faculty and students.  Performances will begin at 8:00 PM Thursday =96 Saturday, 
November 21 =96 23, and at 2:30 PM on Sunday, November 24.  Stump Theatre is in 
the Music and Speech Center located off Horning Drive in Kent.  Ample free 
parking is available and the theatre is fully accessible.

Artist-in-Residence Chung-Fu Chang has created =93Segment,=94 which incorporates 
the movements and painted masks of the Chinese Peking Opera with modern 
movements.  Chang will also perform =93Places in Between,=94 choreographed by 
Yueh-Ping Feng.  Derived from a Zen passage =93One step to the East is one step 
to the West,=94 =93Places in Between=94 examines the experience between past and 
present, the journey between two continents and the connection between one=92s 
inner and outer searches.

Visiting Assistant Professor Wayne M. Smith will also offer a solo, =93Move to . 
. .,=94 an audience interactive improvisational work in which the dance is 
created live as part of the performance.  Members from the audience will be 
selected and coached to demonstrate movement gestures that will be 
incorporated into the piece, in addition to selecting the music to which it 
will be performed that night.  Smith has also choreographed =93Stretched.OUT (in 
5 movements),=94 a theatrical dance collage of urban club culture images 
utilizing the frenetic contemporary =93breakbeat=94 music of Roni Size/Reprazent.

=93Dear Miss Manners,=94 a new work by School of Theatre and Dance Director John 
R. Crawford, is a humorous look at the tongue-in-cheek writing of syndicated 
newspaper columnist, Judith Martin, a.k.a., =93Miss Manners;=94 while Andrea 
Shearer=92s =93Riptide=94 presents the turbulence of events that are out of our 
control.  Choreographed to the evocative music of Juhani Nuorvala, the 
resolution finds heroism in the ability to continue on.

Darwin Prioleau=92s =93Andy=92s Hat=94 is drawn from a soundscape created for this 
piece by musician Ron Jarvis.  Prioleau uses the modern and jazz dance idioms 
to explore a personal journey of isolation, assimilation and self-discovery.  
=93Andy=92s Hat=94 is a work in progress that will be presented as a multi-media 
performance by the Kent Dance Ensemble on April 5=967, 2003.

Student designers for the concert work under the supervision of Theatre 
Division faculty members Suzy Campbell (Costumes), Cynthia Stillings 
(Lighting), Raynette Smith (Props), Martin Simonsen (Technical Director) and 
Karl Erdmann (Scene Shop Supervision).

Performances are Thursday =96 Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2:30 PM.  Tickets 
are $10 for adults, $8 for Seniors, KSU Alumni and KSU Faculty/Staff and $7 
for students with any valid school ID.  Groups of ten or more can receive 
discounted tickets by calling 330-672-2497.  Box-office hours are 12 PM =96 5 
PM, Mondays =96 Fridays, Saturdays during the run of the show from 3 PM =96 7 PM 
and one hour before performance times.  Tickets can be purchased by calling 
330-672-2497.  The box office accepts Visa, MasterCard, and Discover.  Tickets 
purchased by phone must be held with a credit card.  For more information on 
the School of Theatre & Dance visit us at www.theatre.kent.edu.

Contact Information:

Elisabeth Madden
Managing Director
emadden at kent.edu
330-672-0103 (Phone)
330-672-2889 (Fax)

Elisabeth Madden
Managing Director
School of Theatre & Dance
Porthouse Theatre
330-672-0103
emadden at kent.edu