[NEohioPAL] CWRU Department of Dance presents "Reflections"

[Katherine Averill]

Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Dance presents Reflections,
an evening of exciting new and revisited works, featuring Cave Of The Heart
by Martha Graham,  Into the Wind, a new duet by department chair Karen
Potter, as well as the return of Gary Galbraith’s technology-infused In
Another Place and Time and Janice Rosario’s Brink.

Reflections will be performed on November 10, 11, 16-18 at 7:30pm and
November 12th at 2:30pm at Mather Dance Center, 11040 Bellflower Road, on
the Case Western Reserve campus in University Circle.

Cave of the Heart

These performances mark the first time that this ballet is being performed
outside of the Martha Graham Dance Company. This milestone reflects the
strengths and accomplishments of the department in its long track record of
pioneering achievements. This 1946 ballet is Ms. Graham's primal,
passionate study of the destructive powers of love and jealousy, featuring
the dramatic set by Isamu Noguchi and powerful music by Samuel Barber. The
entire Noguchi sculpture/set design has been moved to Cleveland and will be
on stage for the performances.

Into the Wind

A duet by Karen Potter that blends the beauty of contemporary partnering
with aerialist acrobatic movements. The dancers emerge from the 'forest of
aerial silk fabric' and move it with sweeping and swirling motions before
ascending the silks to perform breathtaking, gravity defying movements. Set
to music by Elena-kats Chernin, the duet will be performed by Department of
Dance faculty Richard Oaxaca with two different partners, alumna Yidi Lin
and graduate student Katherine Averill.

In Another Place and Time

Gary Galbraith’s three-sectioned work In Another Place And Time 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”, created
this 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 2022 EHI grant
and is a collaboration between Galbraith, Mike Martens, CWRU Professor of
Physics, and Jared Bendis, Creative New Media Officer for CWRU's Freedman
Center. This work harnesses new LiDAR technology to track dancers on stage
in real time during the performance. The dancers’ movements are then
connected to visual projections and multi-channel audio to bathe the
audience in music and visuals from all directions.

Brink

In a five day residency last year, 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.

Ticket Information

Tickets are $10 for students with ID, $12 for seniors age 60+ and CWRU
personnel, and $15 for general admission. No student priced tickets will be
sold for the November 18th concert. Reservations open September 25th, and
may be made by calling (216) 368-5246 or online at
https://case.edu/artsci/dance/news-and-events/ticket-reservations
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