<p class="MsoTitle" style="line-height:normal">Annual Fall Dance Concert</p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="line-height:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt">'Fall Forward
2008'</span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="line-height:normal">in Oberlin College's Warner Main
Space</p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="line-height:normal">December 5<sup>th</sup> & 6<sup>th</sup>,
2008</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">OBERLIN,
OH</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">—This
December's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Fall Forward </i>will feature
original works from eleven choreographers, an epic and unprecedented number for
the annual dance concert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With a
potpourri of styles as diverse and vast as the number of pieces itself, this year's
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Fall Forward</i> gives promise of being a
momentous collaborative event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The
event will showcase works by students as well as a piece by Eric Handman, guest
choreographer and professor at the University of Utah. Styles range from modern
dance to hip-hop, swing to belly dancing; the themes are just as eclectic. The
pieces delve into the depths of weighty topics such as chance, change,
inhibition, sickness, healing, and (fittingly), autumn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Annually, as we inevitably fall forward
into winter and the New Year, this concert provides a celebratory reflection on
the past year, not to mention a lively escape from the coming cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This year in particular, as the sheer
number of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Fall Forward</i> participants
suggests, everyone is excited to dance!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman"">Fall Forward</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman""> will be performed at Oberlin College's Warner
Main Space, December 5th and 6th at 8<span style="font-variant:small-caps">pm</span>.
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Advance
tickets may be purchased through the Oberlin College Central Ticket Service
either by calling 440-775-8169 or directly at the CTS Box Office located in the
lobby of Hall Auditorium. CTS is open from 12pm to 5pm, Monday through Friday.
Door sales begin at the venue, one hour prior to performances.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Production
Notes</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:
none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Eric Handman, an assistant professor of modern
dance at the University of Utah and former guest faculty in residence at
Oberlin, presents <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Voce</i>, a "dense
interplay between dancers that is intensely musical without being musically
redundant."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This trio piece will
be backed by a Soprano singer and set to Vivaldi's "</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Nulla
in mundo pax sincera." "I'm always trying to choreograph dynamic webs of
relationships that seem organic because they evolve from a process of cause and
effect," remarks Handman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In this
dance, Handman strives to exhibit intensity, complexity, coherence and a strong
sense of purpose in his choreography.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Gabrielle Bromberg '11, a student of belly
dancing for four years, tests the boundaries of traditional belly dancing
styles in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Zeina</i>, combining the earthy
Moroccan and Turkish forms with the glitzier, cabaret-style Egyptian form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Zeina</i>
is both named after and set to Mohammad Abdel Wahab's (considered one of the
five greats of Arabic music) song <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Zeina, </i>which
provides Bromberg's belly dancing medley with a traditional Egyptian
backdrop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With her piece, Bromberg
hopes to stir enthusiasm for the study of belly dancing.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>Jan Trumbauer's '10 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Transfer</i> explores such vast topics as "the difference between
restraint and inhibition, being</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">stuck
and getting through" and the odd fluctuations we experience in journeying
between these states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>With autumn
in mind, she was inspired by the idea of "landscapes in transition," and upon
close inspection of the piece, the audience may notice "</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">the
repetitive back-and-forth motions of leaves falling, rakes raking, the winding
of scarves around necks, the buttoning of jackets, and wind rippling through
cornfields."</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt">In explaining the
inspiration for her dance, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Canvas</i>,
Marya Barrios '09 quotes Jackson Pollack: "</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">I prefer to tack the
corners of an un-stretched canvas to a</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Palatino-Roman"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">hard wall or the floor," and now Barrios
has used this idea to structure her piece.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>"I imagine the stage as my canvas by filling all four
corners with movement," declares Barrios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>During the performance, Barrios will be hooked up to a wireless
microphone, using a program she developed with a fellow TIMARA major to fuse
music and dance in real-time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The
text of the music consists of the repetition of four colors, linking back to
the idea of painting a canvas through dance.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt"><span style="mso-tab-count:1"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt">Kaleidoscope</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
16.0pt"> is an homage to chance meetings, coincidence, and the long-term impact
that brief encounters can have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Choreographer Micheline Heal '09<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>(a dance and East Asian Studies double major) claims to have been most
affected over the last few last years by intense yet ephemeral relationships,
and has thus created this piece to depict the momentary alignment of people who
will never meet again.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:16.0pt">A
bass, a cello, a piano, live oboe improvisation and twelve dancers compile the
epic dance <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Injured</i>, choreographed by
Isabel Roth '11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The piece
originated "as a sort of therapy group" after one dancer underwent a major
surgery. Though the theme of healing dominates <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Injured</i>, the collaborative nature of its conception lends the piece
a strong sense of friendship and support.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>"We're a bunch of friends making this together," Roth states.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>In this ensemble effort, process is
just as important as product, and both exhibit the therapeutic and uniting
qualities of art.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"">Additional pieces include work by Sarah
Bluestone '11, Geneva Cockrell '09, Pari Fariborz '10, Vanessa Gusman '12 and
Elizabeth Zharoff '09.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Performers
& Production Team</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"">The Oberlin College choreographers include:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Marya Barrios '09, Sarah Bluestone '11,
Gabrielle Bromberg '11, Geneva Cockrell '09, Pari Fariborz '10, Vanessa Gusman
'12, Micheline Heal '09, Isabel Roth '11, Jan Trumbauer '10, Elizabeth Zharoff
'09. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dancers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Marya Barrios '09, Sarah Bluestone '11, Gabrielle Bromberg '11, Matthew
Rowen Caplan '09, Julia Chafkin '11, Geneva Cockrell '09,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Rachel Cotterman '10, Marian Dalke '11,
Sam Goodman '09, Hannah Hamler '11, Helen Joyce '11, Natalie King '11, Megan
Lubin '09,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Liz McElwee '09,
Jessica Monnerat, Ali Meyers-Ohki, Teddy Rankin-Parker '09, Ian Rhodewalt '08,
Raphael Sacks '09, Julia Shield '10, Hannah Slipakoff '12, Kemali Teabout '10,
Joanna Weaver '09, Molly Wolosky '10.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Musicians: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">Jane
Cowan '10 (base), Jonah Pierre '11 (piano), Karen Peters '09 (cello), and
Claire Chennette '10 (oboe improvisation).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:
28.0pt 56.0pt 84.0pt 112.0pt 140.0pt 168.0pt 196.0pt 224.0pt 3.5in 280.0pt 308.0pt 336.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The production crew of
Oberlin College students and staff includes: Michael McGee '08 (Production
Manager, <br>
Lighting Designer), Sarah Gasser '10 (Stage Manager), Carter McAdams (Faculty
Advisor), Alex Birnie '10 and Moze Halperin '11 (Publicity).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>