[NEohioPAL] Horizons Dance Concert at CWRU

Shannon Sterne via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Wed Nov 5 07:41:19 PST 2014


Three more chances to see works by Mark Morris, Pascal Rioult, and CWRU
faculty at the Department of Dance fall concert *Horizons. *Nov. 6-8

The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University kicks off the
2014-15 season with *Horizons*, a collection of new and revisited dance
works opening Oct. 31, 2014. Performance dates include Oct. 31, Nov 1, 6,
7, 8 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 2 at 2:30 p.m. at Mather Dance Center located at
11201 Bellflower Rd., on the on the Case Western Reserve campus.

The *Horizons*  program includes Mark Morris’s *Canonic 3/4 Studies,* and
Pascal Rioult’s *Black Diamond* – two works featured during the 2013-14
season as well as three world premiere dances choreographed by dance
faculty Karen Potter, Gary Galbraith and Shannon Sterne.

University graduate and undergraduate dancers will perform together in *Canonic
3/4 Studies* by Mark Morris, an internationally-acclaimed choreographer and
the founder of the Mark Morris Dance Group. A prolific choreographer known
for his legendary musicality, Morris has been described as being
“undeviating in his devotion to music” – *The New Yorker*. Set to various
piano waltzes arranged by Harriet Cavalli and performed by pianist Karin
Tooley, *Canonic 3/4 Studies* began as an exploration in working with
three-quarter time. According to Christine Temin with *The Boston Globe,
the work* “shows how a waltz can smack you in the face, causing you to keel
over and how it’s just as useful for staggering as for swooning.” *Canonic
3/4 Studies*premiered at Case Western Reserve in 2013, following a
week-long residency with Sam Black, a dancer with Mark Morris Dance Group
since 2005. Black returns this fall to coach the dancers as they prepare to
perform the work again.

Rioult’s *Black Diamond *also returns to the Mather Dance Center stage with
a new cast. The work is an abstract duet for two female dancers set to Igor
Stravinsky’s *Duo Concertant,* and will be performed by third-year graduate
student, Hannah Barna, and undergraduate dance major Karlie Budge. Barna
and Budge were personally coached to perform *Black Diamond* by Rioult
while also training with his company RIOULT Dance NY this past summer. In
reviewing *Black Diamond*, Anna Kisselgoff of *The New York Times *wrote,
“…he has met the challenge of comparison with George Balanchine.”

The phrase “absence makes the heart grow fonder” is at the core of *Islands
of Desire*, a duet choreographed by Galbraith with music by Telefon Tel
Aviv that explores the travails of a couple who long to reconnect but are
hampered by the ever present multimedia that infuses the lovers personal
space.

*Ecesis* is a 17-minute work choreographed by Sterne and set to Johann
Sebastian Bach’s *Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor. *The third movement
was created as a quintet that premiered at the San Diego International
Fringe Festival this past July, and Sterne has expanded the choreography to
include all three movements of the concerto for a cast of 15 undergraduate
students.

Tickets may be purchased (cash or check only) at the door prior to each
performance: $7 for students, $10 for seniors and university personnel, and
$15 for general admission. Student discounts are not available for the Nov.
8 performance. Reservations are recommended, and may be made by calling
(216) 368-5246. Reservations may also be made online at
dance.case.edu/reservations. <http://dance.case.edu/reservations>



Shannon Sterne • MS MA RDN
dancer • choreographer • wellness consultant
Assistant Professor of Dance
Case Western Reserve University
216.496.1024 (cell)
216.368.8784 (office)
stepwisenutrition at gmail.com
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