February 29, 2008: Volume 72, Number 8

Dance works evoke struggles, creativity of 1960s-1980s

Here’s a reminder to step to it – and get your tickets for the Theater and Dance Department’s student Winter Dance Concert, “Whirled in Flux.” It’s scheduled for Thursday, March 6 and Friday, March 7, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, March 8, at 2 and 8 p.m. at the Yulman Theatre.

More than 10 artist/creators and 40 performers are bringing dance, theater, live music, visual art, computer animation and other interactive art forms of the 20th century to the stage. All pieces are being performed to works by British rock group Pink Floyd with the intent of showing how artists in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s developed new ways of thinking about art.

The concert is directed by Miryam Moutillet, dance program director, who is working closely with Professor of French Charles Batson.

“Whirled in Flux” will feature works by Marcus Rogers, choreographer and rehearsal director, and dance projects by seven students.

Carly Aimi ’08's work, performed to “Another Brick in the Wall,” addresses “the societal pressure placed on youths to assimilate into American standards and the ease or temptation of just being another brick in the wall,” Aimi said. She worked with seven dancers “who have been dedicated and collaborative in shaping my vision.” They are Santos Avila 08, Sara Mark ’10, Lisa Crescenzo ’10, Brittany Prescott ’08, John Feliciano ’08 and Katherine Gould ’08.

Joseph Hunziker ’08 will combine aspects of theatre and dance to tackle issues of prejudice, under the umbrella of the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s.

Jamie Luguri ’10 created “Defibrillation” to “Shine on You Crazy Diamond.” This post-modern dance, performed under black light, “is about what the Army said Vietnam was going to be like at the beginning, and what it ended up being.”  

Prescott’s pointe piece was inspired by the work of neoclassical master George Balanchine and modern legend Merce Cunningham, with an emphasis on the natural power and beauty of the feminine body. Choreographed to “On the Turning Away,” it is, Prescott said, “symbolic of the power struggle of women and femininity in American society during the 1960s through 1980s.”

Also contributing pieces are Theresa Foito ’08, Sara Jacobson ’10 and Alexandra Lindsay ’09.

Dance concert tickets, now on sale at the Yulman, are $10 for general admission and $7 for Union faculty, staff and students, and area seniors. For more information, call the Box Office at 388-6545.

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