BMC DANCE welcomes two new faculty

Chicago-base dance artist Molly Shanahan Will be teaching Intermediate technique:Modern
And in a joint residency project with Swarthmore College Dance, Idan Porges will be teaching
Gaga/Dancers for advanced dancers and directing the Spring Modern Ensemble.

MOLLY SHANAHAN  Molly holds a B.A. in Dance and English from Denison University, and an M.A. in Dance  Composition from The Ohio State University. She is the founder and artistic director of Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, a critically acclaimed Chicago-based contemporary dance company and has received support for her work through two National Performance Network Creation Fund Awards, a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Award, and an Illinois Arts Council fellowship for choreography, among others.  She has also taught in Northwestern University’s Dance Program and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Dance at Temple.

IDAN PORGES   In conjunction with Swarthmore College Dance Program, we are welcoming Idan Porges as a guest artist in residency for the Spring semester.  Idan will be teaching a class in Gaga/Dancers and will direct the Modern Ensemble.  Idan is one of the preeminent teachers of the Gaga method in the world. Gaga is a movement language invented by dancer, choreographer, dance educator, Ohad Naharin.  Naharin was invited by Martha Graham to dance in her company and while in the states also studied at Julliard and Balanchine’s School of American Ballet.  A skilled choreographer as well, he first began developing Gaga when recovering from an injury and continued exploring its potential until it developed into its present form of movement investigation. Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. It provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while focusing the senses and imagination. Many top companies and schools are now incorporating Gaga into their work or classes including Hubbard street in Chicago, Peridance and Steps in NYC, Koresh Studio here in Philly.  Idan will be teaching this class for advance-intermediate and advanced dancers, a class appropriate for students with a minimum of three—four years of dance training or permission of the instructor. The class can be taken for academic (.5) or PE credit (2).  In Ensemble, he will draw on the work in the Gaga Dance classes and from his own repertoire and will work with students to create new material for a dance work to be performed in the Spring Dance Concert.

Idan has studied physical theatre and Lecoq  in Tel Aviv, graduating from Teatron Haguf
School & Stage for Physical Theatre in 2005. From 2005-2007, he was a dancer in the Batsheva Ensemble, and from 2007-2008, he danced in the international cast of Ohad Naharin’s Kamuyot as part of a project of the Riksteatern. Since leaving Batsheva, Idan has danced in projects at the Klipa Theater and Cameri Theater as well as in the Suzanne Dellal Centre’s production of Barak Marshall’s Rooster and his choreography has been presented in venues around Israel and in Europe. He has also worked as therapist in the Ilan Lev method and is a sought-after teacher of Gaga in Europe and the Mid-East.

FALL STUDENT DANCE CONCERT
Saturday, November 23rd @ 7:30 PM and Sunday November 24 at 2:00 PM
Marshall Auditorium, Haverford campus

Come see your friends, roomies, classmate, team members perform in a wide ranging program of dance.  Free and refreshments follow!

Friday, Nov. 22, 8:30 p.m.
McPherson Auditorium, Goodhart Hall
free for tri-co students, pick up tickets in the Arts Office, Goodhart

Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery share their cultural traditions that date back 600 years. This inspiring performance includes music and chants for purification and healing and dances of the Black Hat Masters, the Skeleton Lords and the Snow Lions as a contribution to world peace and to generate a greater awareness of the endangered Tibetan civilization.

Join the Dance Program on a group excursion to see the internaionally renowned Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Annenberg Center on Saturday October 26 at 8 PM. the program will feature four of Taylor’s works ranging from lyrical to dark to comedic.  If you’ve never seen this world-class company, this is a great opportunity.  Tickets can be purchased at a group rate of $20 and we provide free bus transportation. Contact Madeline Cantor in the Dance Program at mcantor@brynmawr.edu.

The Dance Program is delighted to welcome three new faculty members for the Fall Semester:

KYLE CLARK (Just Sole), Hip-hop dancer, choreographer and educator,
will be teaching the hip-hop class.

MEG FOLEY, cutting edge Philadelphia-based choreographer working experimentally and across the arts, is working with our students to develop a piece for the  Modern Ensemble which will be performed in the Spring Dance Concert.

NORA GIBSON, contemporary choreographer whose work
spans ballet and post-modern improvisation, is creating a ballet duet for the Spring Dance Concert.

for more information on our artists, check out the Dance Website at http://www.brynmawr.edu/dance/people/

Director of Dance Linda Caruso Haviland Moderates PA Ballet Symposium on William Forsythe

Director of Dance Linda Caruso-Haviland moderated a symposium at the Pennsylvania Ballet on “Fold, Collapse, and Shift: Ballet and Beyond in the Choreography of William Forsythe” in May. She has also written a feature article on Forsythe’s dances, which was published on the ballet’s website.

From the website: “Like George Balanchine, whose work he greatly admires, William Forsythe changed forever the shape, dynamic, and possibilities of classical ballet and the ways in which we see it. This symposium will address what viewers found innovative, exciting, or infuriating in Forsythe’s earlier work and the qualities of his current work that continue to make him one of the more important and influential choreographers of our time.”

To read the full article on William Forsythe and the Pennsylvania Ballet’s restaging of
of Artifact Suite, go to the PA Ballet website 

Former Principal Dancer Riolama Lorenzo and Principal Dancer Zachary Hench | Photo: Alexander Iziliaev

Sarah Jordan will present dance works created as part of her Senior Thesis project and Advanced Choreography.

Thursday & Friday May 9 & 10
7:30 PM Pem Studio

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 26 AND 27
7:30 PM   GOODHART
FREE ADMISSION    RECEPTION FOLLOWS

Bryn Mawr and Haverford students dance in the works of noted resident and guest choreographers Dinita Askew, Madeline Cantor, Nia Eubanks Dixon, Megan Mazarick, Shannon Murphy and Meredith Rainey.  Go here for more information on our choreographers.