MHC Fall Faculty Dance Concert November 12-14
November 3, 2009
Posted: November 3, 2009
Mount Holyoke College guest artists and dance faculty will celebrate the grand opening of the new dance wing in Kendall Sports and Dance Complex at the Fall Faculty Dance Concert from Thursday, November 12 to Saturday, November 14. The concert, which will be held at 8 pm in the newly renovated studio theatre.
The program will feature the Five College Dance Department’s premier of choreographer Mark Morris’s “Gloria” set to live choral and orchestral music by Vivaldi. “Gloria,” which premiered in 1981, is one of Morris’s best-known works. It has been restaged by Five College dancers under the direction of long-time Mark Morris company member Marjorie Folkman. The project has been made possible in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.
The program also will include “The Cage,” a premier by hip-hop artist and visiting artist-in-dance Jennifer Weber and her company Decadancetheatre, as well as the premier of award-winning choreographer David Dorfman’s “Dance to the Music,” a celebration of the joy of dancing and the funk of living. Also on the bill are new works by MHC dance faculty: associate professor of dance Charles Flachs’ ballet “Rêve d’un Clown” and a modern piece by dance professors Jim Coleman and Terese Freedman.
To complement the opening of the new dance wing, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum has put together a show called Dance & Dancers, which will run through December 13. The show includes works by a historically and geographically diverse group of artists and media, including photographs of Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Twyla Tharp at work; Matisse and Toulouse-Lautrec lithographs; a Degas bronze; an ancient Greek bowl; a twentieth-century African wood carving; and several late-medieval depictions of the danse macabre.
President Joanne V. Creighton will give opening remarks on November 13, and there will be reception following the show that evening. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $5 for students and seniors. To reserve your tickets, call the box office at 413-538-2848 or email mhcdance.reservations@gmail.com.
Related Links:
Dance at MHC
Dance & Dancers
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