[NEohioPAL] Tri-C West to present annual Spring Dance "Showcase"

[Gloor, Fred]

TRI-C WEST presents the Spring Dance Showcase




 

The Tri-C West Theatre and Dance Department will hold their annual
Spring Dance Showcase on Friday May 7th at 7:30 pm in the Western Campus
Theatre located at 11000 Pleasant Valley Rd. in Parma.  The annual dance
concert continues the tradition of exploring many styles and disciplines
including, hip-hop, jazz, and modern dance.  Audiences will be treated
to pieces choreographed Sarah Morrison, Megan Pitcher, Sarah Carey,
several student-choreographed pieces and a guest presentation created by
Sevi Bayraktar. Tickets are $5 and Free for Tri-C students with a valid
student ID.  

 

 About the Tri-C West Dance Faculty:

 

Sarah Morrison (M.A.) is the founder/director of MorrisonDance and is a
2009 recipient of the Ohio Arts Council Award for Individual Excellence.
She began her professional career as a teenager in Atlanta.  Morrison
relocated to Cleveland upon receiving a scholarship for her choreography
to attend Case Western Reserve University.  Over the past 15 years,
Cleveland has become her home, and the home to MorrisonDance, a company
recognized for its unique exploration and presentation of dance.
Morrison's choreography has been seen in Atlanta, Chicago, Italy and
Mexico, and has been presented at the Joyce SoHo and Joe's Pub at Public
Theatre in New York City.  

 

Megan Pitcher is the artistic director of MegLouise Dance, a Cleveland
based performance group. Pitcher's choreography has been presented
internationally at Moscow Theater West in Russia and the Junction Arts
Festival in Toronto, Canada.  Pitcher received her BFA in Dance from
Ohio University and supplemented her training at Dance New Amsterdam in
New York, Bates Dance Festival and Summer Stages in Maine.  

 

About our Guest Artist:



Sevi Bayraktar is a professional dancer and teacher in Gypsy dance,
including Flamenco. She believes the creativity of dance can be used to
assist in effectively developing solutions for community issues. She has
worked with many international Gypsy dancers in Turkey and in Spain. She
is currently completing a Masters Degree in Sociology in Istanbul and
working with the youth and women in the marginalized neighborhoods of
the urban city. She incorporates her knowledge of dance and theater with
arts-based education methods focusing on at-risk youth. 

 

Sevi Bayraktar's appearance with MorrisonDance in this showing is
possible through her residency with Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio
funded through the Cleveland Foundation Creative Fusion Project.

 

 

For more information and reservations please call 216-987-5536. Parking
is available in the B lot (enter via Pleasant Valley). All other lots
will require permits.

 

 

Fred Gloor

Tri-C Western Campus Theatre Dept.

11000 Pleasant Valley Rd.

Parma, Ohio  44130

216-987-5536

www.tri-c.edu/community/Pages/Theatres.aspx
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