TORONTO, January 24, 2008 -- York University’s Department of Dance spotlights its own with Dance Inside/Out, an engaging production offering an insider’s view of choreography and performance. The show runs two nights only, January 31 and February 1 in the Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre at York.
Dance Inside/Out will present works created by York dance professors Carol Anderson, Holly Small and Susan Cash with alumnus Sashar Zarif, layered with lively discussion about creative process. “Inside” dancers include faculty members Jennifer Bolt and Keiko Kitano as well as the department’s lively young repertory company, the York Dance Ensemble. They will share the stage with guest performers, Toronto-based indie artists Claudia Moore, Simi Rowen and Lucy Rupert.
Program highlights:
Radiant (world premiere) - Choreographed by Holly Small; performed by Keiko Kitano
Small’s new solo, choreographed on her department colleague Kitano, features original music by Governor General’s Award-winning multidisciplinary artist and York alumnus, John Oswald, and video projections created by Small and Oswald. Cutting-edge fogscreen technology allows Kitano to move through the video image, which is projected on a surface made of very light mist.
Interbeing - Choreographed by Susan Cash and Sashar Zarif; performed by the York Dance Ensemble
This collaborative, intercultural work is set to music by Aziza Mustafazadeh, H. Alizadeh and audio from the World Dance Assembly conference in Brazil and incorporates text excerpts from Yukio Mishima’s poetry in Sun & Steel. Full of mystical stories and curious gossip, Interbeing asks penetrating questions and tells us that no being is independent of another. Featured performers are dance students Vanessa Cappello, Samantha Clowes, Kristin DiNino, Sky Fairchild-Waller, Nicole Leone, Kate Nankervis, Holly Newton, Deanna Roffey, Alison Smith, Jennifer Templeton, Alex Thompson and Bridgette Wilson.
Icefields - Choreographed by Susan Cash; performed by Simi Rowen
Set to original music composed by Michael J. Baker, Icefields is part of a larger work, Body/Space/Desire, commissioned by Dancemakers.
Morning Blues - Choreographed by Carol Anderson; performed by Claudia Moore
Commissioned by Claudia Moore, artistic director of MOonhORsE Dance Theatre, and set to music for lute and voice by Elizabethan composer John Dowland, sung by Sting, Morning Blues was inspired by the dancer’s unique qualities and her fascination with Shakespeare. Moore premiered the piece last year in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts.
11 x forgetting (excerpt) - Choreographed and performed by Jennifer Bolt and Lucy Rupert
11 x forgetting is inspired by amnesia and images from fairy tales as well as the music and lyrics of Radiohead. This excerpt in particular is informed by the more than two decades-long friendship between the choreographers/performers, who have been dancing together since the age of eight. They have collaborated on five major works through Rupert’s company, Blue Ceiling Dance.
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What: Dance Inside/Out, featuring faculty artists and guests of the Department of Dance, York U
When: Thurs. Jan. 31 & Fri. Feb. 1 at 7:00pm
Where: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele St.
Admission: $8
Box Office: 416.736.5888 | www.yorku.ca/perform/boxoffice
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Media Contact:
Amy Stewart, Communications, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University
416.736.2100 ext. 20421 | amy.stewart@yorku.ca
