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Dancers rehearse for "Dance 2005," faculty and guest choreographers. A Lauren Wimer j Senior photographer a production choreographed by University dance department This faculty- and guest-choreographed program will feature a variety of styles, many of which include improvised music and dance moves BY NATASHA CHILfNGERIAN SENIOR PULSE REPORTER The Department of Dance will present a collection of faculty- and guest-choreographed pieces to day, Friday and Saturday in the Dougherty Dance Theatre. "Dance 2005," a University tradition since 1959, is a creative outlet for chore ographers and a performance op portunity for students, Dance De partment Chair Jenifer Craig said. In recent years, the Department of Dance held its student-choreo graphed concert in the winter and its faculty- and guest-choreo graphed concert in the spring. The department decided to swap the dates this year to see if it would provide more rehearsing space and more work time for student chore ographers who are also involved with the University of Oregon Repertory Dance Company and Dance Africa, Craig said. "Dance 2005" will represent a range of moods and styles. Adjunct faculty member Eliie Klopp will present "Short Story (ies)," a piece based on a one-line story per formed in eight segments inter spersed throughout the show. As sociate professor Steven Chatfield created "Life is a Tango. Do you want to dance?" which is a fun, seven-member routine to tango tunes. In music director Christian Cherry and technical director Amy Impeilizzeri's "Happen Stance," dancers will improvise moves to a set choreographed structure while Cherry improvises on the piano. Guests Tim and Corrie Cowart will dance in a romantic duettitled "A River with No Banks," and dance students Heidi Diaz and Sarah Nemecek will display the choreography of associate profes sor Amy Stoddart in the duet "SHARDS." Assistant professor Walter Kennedy designed two pieces for the concert "Strauss Songs,” a solo on pointe featuring a soprano vocalist and pianist from the School of Music, and "Looney Land," a group finale to the music of Raymond Scott. Klopp's piece, a reaction to a very short story by Lydia Davis, rep resents a range of perspectives on the story and was developed through collaboration among dancers. Cherry composed a score for the piece that includes piano music, sounds of corn rustling and a spoken vocalization of the story. "Each section has its own person ality and character," Klopp said. "But they all stay in a range so they're identifiable as the same piece. It's like if you told different sections of a story, they would all still be identifi able as the same story." Memories of Warner Brothers' "Looney Tunes" will likely come to mind during the showing of "LooneyLand." Dance student JoAnna Bristow, who will perform in the piece, said the cast prepared through improvisation and brain storming ideas based on what makes cartoons funny. She said that zany gestures, comical patterns and Marx Brothers-inspired moves will bring humor to the piece. "We will wear crazy-colored tights, funky-colored boxers and shorts, and Technicolor shirts and blazers that are as unfashionable as possible," she said. "It's like, why not go overboard?" Bristow, who has participated in past student-choreographed con certs, said while the student con cert showcases much creative tal ent the faculty-choreographed concert is often more experimental because they have more time to try new things. Lauren Wimer | Senior photographer April DuBose rehearses for the dance "Life is a Tango. Do you want to dance?" for "Dance 2005," which opens Thursday night. "Faculty members are able to choreograph (for the concert) for many years, while students are only around for a few years," she said. "They have had a lot of expe rience and are not afraid to pursue new ideas." Craig said that years of experi ence behind the choreography make the faculty concert stand apart from the student one. "Students are just beginning to do their creative work," she said. "The faculty concert displays the creative research of the faculty." 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