[NEohioPAL] Mather Dance Collective Performances This Weekend

[Shannon Sterne via NEohioPAL]

The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University is pleased to
announce this spring’s production of MaDaCol (Mather Dance Collective).
Performances are April 16 and 17 at 8 p.m., and April 18 at 7 p.m. and 8:30
p.m.

MaDaCol, one of the university’s oldest undergraduate student
organizations, offers an important creative outlet for CWRU graduate and
undergraduate students, faculty, staff and greater Cleveland community
members. The performance will feature new dance works by second-year
graduate students Andrea Alvarez, Jared Bendis, Ziying Cui, Yidi Lin  and
Richard Oaxaca, and senior dance major Abbey Hafer. More than fifty dancers
from a diverse range of  performance backgrounds will perform in the
production.

Choreographed by Andrea Alvarez, *Luminary Catalyst *is a play on light.
The work, with music by Terry Riley, is driven by the contrast between
darkness and light and their effect on the dancers.

*Chroma* is a new work that explores the kinetic relationship between
dancers and their environment of light and color. Choreographed by Jared
Bendis, the trio of dancers don hidden technologies that aid in the
creation and manipulation of the visual projections revealing an augmented
visualization of this relationship.

*Turn Left, Turn Right *is a work by Ziying Cui showing encounters in which
people may accidentally meet or miss each other. It is set to music by
Franz Schubert.

Yidi Lin’s new work titled *X* is an abstract piece performed to music by
Steve Reich.

*Ascencion*, choreographed by Richard Oaxaca, juxtaposes the unwelcome
challenges that can be present in life with the joy that comes from the
enduring support of family and friends. It is set to a music composed by
Michael Harrison, featuring cello innovator Maya Beiser.

Abbey Hafer, a senior dance and art history major, has created a solo
inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s famous sculpture *Apollo and Daphne* for
her senior capstone project. The work draws dominantly on the Apollo figure
from the sculpture as well as generic themes in the mythical story of
Apollo and Daphne.


*All performances take place at Mather Dance Center located at 11201
Bellflower Road, on the Case Western Reserve University campus. All tickets
are $5 and may be purchased at Mather Dance Center prior to each
performance. Early arrival is suggested due to limited seating. No
reservations and no advance sales will be made.*


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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