[NEohioPAL] Tri-C West Dance Showing this Friday May 7

[Gloor, Fred]

On Friday May 7th at 7:30 pm in the Western Campus Theatre located at 11000 Pleasant Valley Rd. in Parma, Tri-C faculty members Sarah Carey and Megan Pitcher will host the spring 2010 Dance Showing.  Students from all dance classes will be demonstrating class work and improvisational dance explorations while faculty members discuss the skills and developments of their work.  Selected students will perform works-in-progress choreographed by faculty members and students.  We will discuss how these works were developed, and describe the artistic intent behind each.  Students from Dance IV will perform "Again Today," choreographed by the students and directed by Pitcher. This piece was selected for presentation in the upcoming 2010 Ohio Dance Festival in Oberlin. Additionally, audience members will be able to see a guest presentation created by Turkish guest artist Sevi Bayraktar and MorrisonDance.  This lecture / demonstration dance concert is an excellent opportunity for Tri-C students and community members to learn more about the dance program at the Western Campus and to learn how they can be a part of this growing program. Tickets are $5 and Free for Tri-C students with a valid student ID.  

 

 

About the Tri-C West Dance Faculty:

Sarah Carey is a performer, teacher and choreographer originally from Rochester, NY.  She received her BFA in dance from Belhaven University in Jackson, MS.  While living in NYC, she trained and performed as part of the Professional Studies Program at the Limón Institute/Limón Dance Company.  Performance credits include works by José Limón, Doris Humphrey, Steven Wynne, Bill Wade (Inlet Dance Theater), Randall Flinn, and Laura Morton.  In Rochester, she worked with PUSH Physical Theatre and served as the Dance Director of Community Arts Academy, an after-school/summer program for urban youth.  She co-founded and served as artistic director of ExpressArte Dance Ensemble and has appeared with the Broadway tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, MegLouise Dance and with Geomantics Dance Theater.  Sarah has taught, performed, directed and presented choreography in NY, MS, OH and the UK.  She is on the dance faculty at Tri-C and has recently taught at the American College Dance Festival, ArtsPrep, Cleveland Ballet Conservatory, Hathaway Brown School, and Beck Center for the Arts.  

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 a diversely talented artist whose work spans from concert dance to musical theatre and from film to installation art. She received her BFA from Ohio University and trained at Movement Research, Dance New Amsterdam and Bates Dance Festival. Since 2002, the major focus of her work has been with her company of collaborating artists, MegLouise Dance. Her works have been presented by Cleveland Public Theatre, Playhouse Square, Cincinnati Fringe Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival, Outlet Dance Project, Columbus Movement Movement, Michigan Dance Project, Ohio Dance and the Junction Arts Festival in Toronto. She has performed works by Gabriel Masson, Tere O'Connor, Susan VanPelt Peltry, Lotta Londregen, Maree ReMalia and Kalindi Stockton. Pitcher has presented workshops and residencies through ACDFA, Ohio Dance, Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights Ensemble Program, Beck Center for the Arts and Orange High School.

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

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Fred Gloor

Tri-C Western Campus Theatre Dept.

11000 Pleasant Valley Rd.

Parma, Ohio  44130

216-987-5536

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