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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00B050">CSU Presents the
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2019 Spring Dance Concert <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><b><span style="font-size:28.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00B050">March 22 & 23</span></b><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Will feature CSU Dance Company, AntonioBrownDance Company and Habib Iddrisu<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Cleveland State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance, a Resident Company of Playhouse Square, will present its annual Spring Dance
Concert on </span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#00B050">Friday, March 22 and Saturday, March 23 at 7:30pm at the Allen Theatre, Playhouse Square</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">,
1407 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">All tickets are $5.00</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> and may be purchased by
phone at 216.241.6000, online at </span><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org/events/detail/csu-spring-dance-concert-2019">playhousesquare.org</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
or in person ahead of time at the State Theatre </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.playhousesquare.org/events/detail/csu-spring-dance-concert-2019">Ticket Office</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">,
located at 1519 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Tickets are also available at the Allen Theatre on the nights of the performances.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The concert features the
<b>CSU DANCE COMPANY, FACULTY, ALUMNI, MUSICIANS, GUEST ARTISTS</b> and the new apprentice ensemble
<b>VIKING DANCE GROUP</b>. Choreographers include Antonio Brown, formerly of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Tyler Ring of GroundWorks DanceTheater, Bryant Henderson, a visiting assistant professor of dance at CSU and Dr. Habib Iddrisu, a master drummer who
is on the faculty at </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">the University of Oregon.<span style="color:black"> This repertory concert consists of both newly created and restaged works that represent varied artistic styles,
traditions and music, with special appearances by the six-member AntonioBrownDance Company and Habib Iddrisu.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">About the Concert:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Antonio Brown</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">’s newest work created for the CSU Dance Company,
<i>Our Room ... Only Imagined</i>, takes an affectionate look back to his younger self. As an only child with a vast imagination, Antonio spent much of his time creating elaborate new worlds and inhabiting those worlds with fantastical toy creatures. Supported
by an energized sound score created by Brown, this piece will take the viewer on an intimate journey inside one of these magical worlds.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The New York based AntonioBrownDance will perform an ever-evolving work titled
<i>Mixtape</i>. Compiled of various short movement and sound studies, this work explores the connections people have to sound and to music, and the consequences that repeated listening experiences can have on their bodies and their movement choices.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Habib Iddrisu</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">,
a traditionally trained dancer, musician, and oral historian from Northern Ghana, has returned as guest artist to stage the energetic and exuberant
<i>Yankadi/Macru</i> featuring the CSU Dance Company and the Viking Dance Group. Mostly popular along the Guinea Coast of West Africa,
<i>Yankadi/Macru</i> is offered as a celebratory music/dance form for a variety of occasions. This version highlights the possibilities and adaptations of traditional styles to proscenium stages across the African Diaspora.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Tyler Ring</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">'s piece,
<i>The Depth Between</i> features four senior dance majors performing to a moving piano score by composer Goldmund. The dance focuses on shifting relationships created through explorations in three-dimensional movement and the negative space between the dancers,
allowing for new and unexpected interactions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:KO">Bryant Henderson</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-fareast-language:KO"> will
be premiering two new works. The first piece, <i>US/them</i>, is a collaborative work created and performed with CSU alumna Anne Howard. Henderson and Howard have teamed up with Dr. Bob Roche, Assistant Lecturer in Music Education at CSU, who will perform
an original score to support this work. <i>US/them</i> is inspired by, explores, and references the hypocrisy and divisive characteristics experienced within <span style="background:white">contemporary social and political narratives in our country. </span>Henderson
second work, <i>Near the Edge, </i>will be performed by the CSU Dance Company. This contemporary-urban piece considers the human experience of accepting and resisting social relationships and conformity, and how these continuous negotiations impact one’s sense
of individuality and control. These experiences are tangibly represented by the dancers’ practical work of re-organizing and manipulating wooden boxes designed by Associate Professor of Theatre, Russ Borski.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:KO">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">The evening will begin with a pre-concert Allen Theatre lobby performance of an excerpt of
<b>Tammy Metz Starr</b>’s <i>Saffron Days</i>, performed by the <b>Viking Dance Group</b>. This ode to spring weather-which cannot arrive soon enough- features dancers performing simultaneous Butoh-influenced solos. And, as the audience is ushered into their
seats, they will be greeted by an additional pre-concert welcome from </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">eight<span style="color:red">
</span><span style="color:black">CSU Alumnae, created in collaboration with <b>Lynn Deering</b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">About Cleveland State University
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Founded in 1964, Cleveland State University is a public research institution that provides a dynamic setting for Engaged Learning. With 17,000-plus students, nine
colleges and more than 175 academic programs, CSU was again chosen for 2017 as one of America’s best universities by U.S. News & World Report. Find more information at
</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.csuohio.edu">www.csuohio.edu</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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