[NEohioPAL] Kaleido - Case Western University Spring Dance Concert

[CWRU Dance Publicity]

The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University will continue
the 2019-2020 season with Kaleido, a thesis concert featuring works by
Master of Fine Arts candidates Brandon Gregoire and Yuting Zhao and Master
of Arts candidate Joseph Teeter.

Performance dates and times are March 26 - 28 at 8:00 p.m. and March 29 at
2:30 p.m. All performances are at Mather Dance Center, 11201 Bellflower
Road, on the Case Western Reserve campus in University Circle.

Down and Through, restaged for five male dancers, is a work by Gregoire
that explores one’s experience with pain, grief, and emotional boundaries.
The dancers personify this experience through their bodily contact,
struggling against the barriers until there is nowhere to go but up.

Zhao’s solo, She’d, uses a score by Arvo Part and special costuming to
reveal the female figure’s inner world, and her journey of self-discovery
and liberation. Her group work is set to all-male choral music by Eero
Hämeenniemi. An all female cast embodies the influences of the weight of
memory. The weight drags and disturbs, but it also triggers rebirth from
deconstruction.

Another premiere, Duality, is a duet for two women choreographed by
Gregoire. Driven by music from composer John Psathas, this work explores
contrasting movement dynamics with variations in time and space. He will
also restage Strange Gardens, a responsive-media infused work by Gary
Galbraith. Created in 2016, a visually rich wonderland is created,
manipulated, and transformed with a trio of dancers and their kinetic
journey through space.

Zhao will also restage January Thirtyfirst, a 2003 duet choreographed by
CWRU alumna Lin Batsheva Kahn. With music by Phillip Glass and a narrated
poem by Kahn, this powerful work depicts the grief and mutual support of a
brother and sister at the moment of their mother’s death. The dancers show
a painful journey through grief filled with anticipation, anger, and
anxiety before transitioning into sad acceptance.

Teeter will premiere a new work titled Chasing Unison. With a string
quartet performing two fugues by J.S. Bach onstage, the four dancers each
represent one of the quartet voices. As the work develops the dancers
explore their connection to the music and to each other, wondering how to
be united in such a complex, contrapuntal world.

Tickets are $10 for students, $12 for seniors 60+ and CWRU personnel, and
$15 for general admission. Reservations are recommended and may be made by
calling (216) 368-5246 or online at dance.case.edu/reservations.
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