[NEohioPAL] Case Western Reserve University Department of Dance presents "Spectrum"

[Danielle Dowler]

The Department of Dance at Case Western Reserve University opens the
2022-2023 season with Spectrum, featuring Brink by contemporary NY-based
choreographer Janice Rosario and the return of the popularly acclaimed Les
Noces by Pascal Rioult. Artistic Director Gary Galbraith with collaborators
Mike Martens, CWRU Professor of Physics, and Jared Bendis, Creative New
Media Officer for CWRU's Freedman Center, presents a new technology-infused
multi-media and multi-channel sound dance work using new state-of-the art
technology, supported in part by his Expanding Horizons Initiative Grant
(EHI). Rounding out the program will be the return of Karen Potter's
poignant Ubi Sunt.

Spectrum will be performed November 11, 12 and 17-19 at 7:30pm and November
13 at 2:30pm at Mather Dance Center, 11040 Bellflower Road, on the Case
Western Reserve campus in University Circle.

In a five day residency, contemporary NY-based choreographer Janice Rosario
worked with graduate students and undergraduate dance majors to set
Brink: “When
we are at the cusp of reaching our goals, we give it all and more.” Brink
dives into the being within reach of your aspirations and how striving for
them affects us on the individual and community level.

Making its return, Les Noces, by two time recipient of the Choo-San Goh
Award for Choreography Pascal Rioult, is a sexually charged deconstruction
of the marriage ritual, infusing the strong structural composition with
provocative movement and unabashed energy.

Gary Galbraith’s new three-sectioned untitled work is another in his long
line of media-rich dance works. Galbraith, who the Cleveland Plain Dealer
has called “..an innovator in dance and technology”, has created this new
abstract work, a visually stunning landscape, set to intensely beautiful
music by Armand Amar.

The creation of this new work is supported by Galbraith’s recent EHI grant
and is a collaboration between Galbraith, Martens, and Bendis. This work
harnesses new lidar technology to track dancers on stage in real time
during the performance. The dancers’ movements are then connected to
projection to create a live interactivity on stage. The collaboration with
Bendis has yielded the inclusion of multi-channel audio, also connected to
the dancer’s choreography, to bathe the audience in music and sound from
all directions. The evocative settings and environments are a magical
combination of movement, image, and sound.

Created by chair of the department Karen Potter, Ubi Sunt is a somber dance
for 10 women that was loosely inspired by the sadness endured when losing a
loved one.
Tickets are $10 for students, $12 for seniors age 60+ and CWRU personnel,
and $15 for general admission. Reservations are open, and may be made by
calling (216) 368-5246 or online at <http://dance.case.edu/reservations/>
https://case.edu/artsci/dance/news-and-events/ticket-reservations.
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