<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-09fa6ad8-7fff-c825-b0d8-1a9c32daed62" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Case Western Reserve University’s Department of Dance presents </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reflections,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> an evening of exciting new and revisited works, featuring </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cave Of The Heart</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> by Martha Graham,  </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Into the Wind, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a new duet by department chair Karen Potter, as well as the return of Gary Galbraith’s technology-infused </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Another Place and Time</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and Janice Rosario’s </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brink</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reflections</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will be performed on November 10, 11, 16-18 at 7:30pm and November 12th at 2:30pm at </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mather Dance Center, 11040 Bellflower Road, on the Case Western Reserve campus in University Circle.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cave of the Heart</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Into the Wind</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Another Place and Time</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Gary Galbraith’s three-sectioned work </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In Another Place And Time</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The creation of this new work is supported by Galbraith’s 2022 EHI grant and is a collaboration between Galbraith, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mike Martens, CWRU Professor of Physics, and Jared Bendis, Creative New Media Officer for CWRU's Freedman Center</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. 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. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brink </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In a five day residency last year, contemporary NY-based choreographer Janice Rosario worked with graduate students and undergraduate dance majors to set </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brink</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“When we are at the cusp of reaching our goals, we give it all and more.” </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:italic;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brink</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> dives into the being within reach of your aspirations and how striving for them affects us on the individual and community level.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ticket Information</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reservations open September 25th, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and may be made by calling (216) 368-5246 or online at <a href="https://case.edu/artsci/dance/news-and-events/ticket-reservations">https://case.edu/artsci/dance/news-and-events/ticket-reservations</a></span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></div>