[NEohioPAL] Case Western Reserve University Dance Concert: Landmarks, Oct. 31-Nov 8

Baylee Van Patten dancepr at case.edu
Tue Sep 30 14:25:30 PDT 2025


Department of Dance Presents Fall 2025 Faculty & Guest Artist Concert:
Landmarks


Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Dance announces the 2025
production of Landmarks, an evening of exciting new and revisited works.
The program features Mark Morris’s Words, Karen Potter’s The Burghers of
Calais, Gary Galbraith’s Chambers of Painted Light, and Game of …, a new
duet by Yidi Lin and Richard Oaxaca. Morris and Potter’s works feature
music performed by pianist Karin Tooley and cellist Joe Teeter both
graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Music.


Landmarks will be performed on October 31 and November 1, 6–8 at 7:30 pm,
and November 2 at 2:30 pm at Mather Dance Center, 11040 Bellflower Road, on
the Case Western Reserve campus in University Circle.


Words


Mark Morris’s Words (2014), staged by Karlie Budge of the Mark Morris Dance
Group and a CWRU alumna, is set to selections from Felix Mendelssohn’s Songs
Without Words. The work is a study of musicality, pattern, and connection,
showcasing Morris’s distinctive blend of clarity and wit. Dancers move
through shifting formations and partnering that highlight the score’s
structure, while a curtain carried across the stage creates playful and
surprising entrances and exits.


The Burghers of Calais


The Burghers of Calais was inspired by the Auguste Rodin sculpture of the
same name and though in Rodin's sculpture, there are six figures, the dance
was originally created as a solo in 1998 and then enlarged to a trio in
1999. Choreographer Karen Potter visited the Rodin museum in Paris to study
each singular sculpture that lines a walkway at the museum and conducted
research about the siege of the City of Calais, France that itself
initially inspired Rodin to create the sculpture. The costumes were
designed by Potter and constructed by Jeffrey Wirsing and Potter.


Chambers of Painted Light


Gary Galbraith’s four-sectioned work "Chambers of Painted Light" is an
extension of "In Another Place and Time" which he created in 2023.
Galbraith, who the Cleveland Plain Dealer has called “..an innovator in
dance and technology”, created this abstract work, a visually stunning
landscape of beautiful light created by immersive projection design
enhanced by multi-channel audio. This abstract dance leads the viewer
through a multitude of visually radiant scenes all reflecting the intimacy
of body/movement with environment. AI-supported LiDAR and motion tracking
technologies are used to follow dancers in real-time so that their
movements and locations are used to control this immersive dance
environment. Galbraith has used this state-of-the-art approach in other
recent works and is a leader in this multi-technology infusion with dance.


Game of …


Game of …, a new work co-choreographed and performed by faculty members
Yidi Lin and Richard Oaxaca is a dynamic interplay of partnership and
rivalry. Every step is a negotiation with moments of power struggle.
Partnering turns into tactical maneuvering, and every touch is both an
obstacle and an opportunity. The choreography weaves together moments of
intense confrontation with fleeting alliances, as each dancer adapts,
anticipates, and counters the other's strategy.


Ticket Information


Tickets are $15 for CWRU students with ID, $20 for seniors age 60+, CWRU
personnel and non-CWRU students, and $25 for general admission. Online
ticket sales open on September 29 via
https://case.edu/artsci/dance/news-and-events/ticket-reservations.
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