[NEohioPAL] Mosaics

[Meredith Bruch]

*MOSAICS*

*The first week of performances sold out and was a great success! Be sure
to check out Mosaics and reserve your ticket(s) AHEAD of time! *

The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University celebrates
movement and innovation by leading off the 2018-19 season with Mosaics, a
collection of new, revisited, and guest artist dance works on November 15 -
17 at 8:00 pm at Mather Dance Center on the CWRU campus. Showcasing the
department’s successes with the use of new technologies, the program will
feature the return of Gary Galbraith's visually stunning dance Imagined
Odyssey as well as a new work marking another installment in his series of
'media rich' dance-works. Injecting high energy will be Caffeinated, the
fast paced work by renowned choreographer Larry Keigwin contrasted by the
grace of Nai-Ni Chen’s Bamboo Prayer.

Caffeinated, choreographed by Larry Keigwin, is a zany and charming highly
charged dance set to Philip Glass’s “Glasspiece # 3”. The work was
commissioned by NYU’s dance department and was recently expanded by Jaclyn
Walsh, Keigwin’s regisseur, for a cast of 13 CWRU dancers which includes
graduate students and undergraduate dance majors.

Returning to the Mather Dance Center stage is Bamboo Prayer, a dance for
five women choreographed by Nai-Ni Chen that was commissioned by the Joyce
Theater in New York where it premiered in 1998. Inspired by the beauty of
bamboo, a plant abundant in Chen’s native Taiwan, the dance exudes
strength, resiliency and grace embodied in women. Chen was in residency at
CWRU for one week to set the dance in the Fall of 2017. Last year marked
the first time a group other than Chen’s New York based company performed
the work.

Imagined Odyssey, created through a collaborative project with CWRU’s
Interactive Commons and Gary Galbraith, artistic director of the Department
of Dance, is receiving its encore performance due to its success and
popularity with our patrons. The groundbreaking, narrative-based technology
work utilizes live holographic imagery featuring Microsoft’s HoloLens, an
augmented reality holographic headset. Members of the audience will wear
HoloLens in order to watch the dancers and holograms move seamlessly on
stage as the merging of choreography with holographic content and particles
made entirely of light magically create the mysterious landscape of sets
and props.  These performances will again mark one of the largest numbers
of people in the world to simultaneously experience a live holographic
presentation using HoloLens. The unique collaboration draws upon the
expertise of dancers, artists, illustrators, programmers, network
engineers, and more.

Galbraith’s new three-sectioned work *Mirage* is another in his long line
of media rich dance works. This new work set to haunting and intensely
beautiful music finds Galbraith exploring responsive media with projection
mapping in new ways to create colorful moving images projected onto
dancers, the floor, and set elements.

Ticket Information
All performances take place at Mather Dance Center, 11201 Bellflower Road,
on the Case Western Reserve University campus. Ticket reservations are
highly recommended and should be reserved by calling (216) 368-5246 or
online at dance.case/reservations. Tickets are also available at Mather
Dance Center prior to each performance. General admission is $15, Senior
and CWRU faculty/staff tickets are $10, student tickets are $7 (student
discounts NOT available Nov. 17). Cash/check ONLY.
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