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."
Tickets for "Dance 2005" are $5
for students and seniors and $10 for
the general public and are available
at the door beginning at 7 p.m.
The show begins at 8 p.m.
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