[NEohioPAL] Avanti - CWRU Fall Dance Concert

[CWRU Dance Publicity]

The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University will open the
2019-20 season with Avanti, a presentation of new and revisited works
opening November 1st.



Performance dates and times are November 1, 2, and 7 - 9 at 8:00 p.m., and
November 3 at 2:30 p.m. All performances are at Mather Dance Center, 11201
Bellflower Road, on the Case Western Reserve campus in University Circle.



Headlining the program will be Like Fragments from an Old Song, created for
the graduate dancers by internationally acclaimed guest choreographer Pam
Tanowitz. Alongside this work is the return of the historic and lyrical Air
for the G String by modern dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, and the fast-paced
Caffeinated by guest choreographer Larry Keigwin. Rounding out the program
is a second restaging of Gary Galbraith’s Islands of Desire, which
premiered in 2014, and his new work Brothers, featuring the department’s
male dancers.



Like Fragments from an Old Song is set to and inspired by Broad and Free, a
composition for violin and piano by contemporary composer Caroline Shaw.
The work was created during Tanowitz’s eight day CWRU residency in
September and explores fragmented movements woven together by the dancers’
connectivity and intuition, with an homage to the history of Mather Dance
Center.



Returning to the Mather stage is Caffeinated, an energetic and charming
dance set to Philip Glass’s Glasspiece #3. The work was commissioned by New
York University’s dance department and was expanded in 2018 by Jaclyn
Walsh, Keigwin’s regisseur, for a cast of 12 CWRU dancers that includes
graduate students and undergraduate dance majors.



The department will again present Doris Humphrey's graceful, sculptural,
and processional quintet Air for the G String set to Johann Sebastian
Bach's Air from his Orchestral Suite # 3 in D Major.

Department of Dance Professor and Artistic Director Gary Galbraith will
reprise his sensual duet Islands of Desire, which explores the travails of
a couple who long to reconnect but are hampered by the ever present
multimedia that infuses the lovers’ personal space.



Brothers, a new dance work by Galbraith, showcases 7 of the men in the
dance department.  Set to the music of Barbatuques, Brothers brings forward
a camaraderie among the men in a highly rhythmic and dynamic field of
motion.  Drawing from the strengths of the men, this dance has a tribal
quality yet remains a contemporary, communal ensemble.

Tickets are $10 for students, $12 for seniors age 60+ and CWRU personnel,
and $15 for general admission. Student discounts are not available for the
November 9 performance. Reservations are recommended and may be made by
calling (216) 368-5246 or online at dance.case.edu/reservations.
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