From September 6th through September 26, Dr. Karl Schaffer will be in residency as part of a tri-co Mellon project sponsored by Bryn Mawr mathematics and Swarthmore dance. An organizational meeting for those interested in creating a new mathematically-inspired performance work with Dr. Schaffer will be held at Swarthmore, Troy Dance Lab on Friday, September 7 from 6-9 PM. The tri-co bus should accommodate the rehearsal schedule at Swarthmore. No prior dance experience is necessary.

Other open events include:

#Math Colloquium    September 10th 4-5 PM – Bryn Mawr, Park 355

#Open Workshop    September 15th 2:30-4 PM -Bryn Mawr, Thomas Great Hall

#Workshop and Final Showing    September 26th 4:30-6 PM – Swarthmore, Troy
Dance Lab
From 4:30 PM till 5 Schaffer will conduct a participatory movement preview of some of the dances and concepts in the showing, and the showing will start at 5 PM, followed by Q and A with the director and participating students.

Dr. Karl Schaffer, is co-director of the Dr. Schaffer and Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble, which has toured throughout North America and Europe. He is professor of Mathematics at De Anza College in Cupertino, CA. He received his Ph.D. im mathematics from UC Santa Cruz but has also studied and performed Bharatya Natyam, Flamenco, tap, and modern dance and has choreographed dance works performed throughout the US. Schaffer and Stern’s book Math Dance (co-authored with Scott Kim) shows how dance and math can be brought together on stage and in the classroom.

FRIDAY  September 14  8 PM  Goodhart                         
VOLOSHKY UKRANIAN DANCE ENSEMBLE
Tickets are free to tri-co students, faculty and staff

Combining the strengths of ballet with the vigor of youth and the power of ancient dance traditions, the Voloshky style is bold, powerful, and dazzling with athleticism. Featuring a newly-commissioned choreography from MacArthur “genius” Mark Morris set to French composer Camille Saint-Saën’s Carnival of the Animals, this program highlights Voloshky’s live orchestra and 35 dancers from the Ukraine and United States.Support for the Voloshky Ukrainian Dance Ensemble is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

SPRING DANCE CONCERT

Modern, Jazz, Ballet, African, Hip-hop—the annual Spring Dance Concert has it all.

Bryn Mawr and Haverford students will perform in this annual concert of danceworks by faculty, advanced students and guest artists, including a reconstruction of Psalm, a 1967 work by modern dance master José Limón set on our students by a reconstructor from the Limón Foundation.

Friday and Saturday, April 20 and 21
7:30 p.m. in Goodhart main stage

Free admission. . .Reception follows
Call 10-526-5210 for more information

Wednesday, March 28, 7:00-9:00 PM
Pem Studio, Bryn Mawr College

As part of the Philadelphia Flamenco Festival, Bryn Mawr is delighted to be sponsor a Master Class with ROSARIO TOLEDO. Please check the flier for a range of events from film screenings to a symposium to full performances. Anyone not part of the tri-college community needs to pre-register at info@pasionyarteflamenco.Information on the festival can be found at www.pasionyarteflamenco.org.

Bring character shoes or flamenco shoes if you have them. We’ll bring the program cache of shoes for students to use as well so wear socks or tights.

TABITHA PERFORMANCE GROUP
Saturday and Sunday March 17 and 18 at 7:30 PM
Directed by Aliza Rothstein and Miranda Liu

Pem Dance Studio
Free Admission
Reception Follows

Tabitha Performance Group is a student directed dance project funded by the College’s undergraduate Self-Government Association and founded in 1999 by Emily Harney and Amanda Eicher.

Each year, the responsibility for directing the group is handed down within the Dance Program as a ‘May Day Gift’ to a rising senior or seniors who demonstrate particular interest in and talent for direction and choreography. This year two seniors, Miranda Liu and Aliza Rothstein, have created works including “jibun jishin” a quintet, exploring imbalance and control, and “Bella” a trio, exploring movement qualities and memories. The performance will also feature the piano workings of Chunan Liu ’14. Dancers include Haverford and Bryn Mawr students Lexie Sokolow BMC ’15, Emma Geering BMC ’14, Henry Elliman HC ’14, Alexandra Kirsch BMC ’14, Sarah Shaw BMC ’13, Chris Flores HC ’13, Audrey Saul HC ’12, as well as Rothstein and Liu.

RENNIE HARRIS PUREMOVEMENT

This one-night-only show, assembled for Bryn Mawr College, will include sections from “Breath” and “3 b-boys and a girl”  as well as “Something to Do With Love.”

Founder Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris celebrates hip-hop culture on his own terms, by using some of the world’s most influential forms of movement, music, and storytelling to revolutionize contemporary concert dance. The goal of RHPM is to provide audiences with a sincere view of the essence and spirit of hip-hop, rather than the commercially exploited stereotypes

PERFORMANCE:
Goodhart Mainstage
Friday March 16, 8:00 PM
Tri-Co students, faculty, staff -Free
Discounted prices for seniors, dance pass, and other students.

MASTER CLASS
Thursday March 15
Pem Studio, 4 PM
Free
Call to register:  610-526-5210

Join the Dance Program as we journey into Philly to see
Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak’s master work Oyster, a full-length Philadelphia premiere based on poems and sketches of Tim Burton about a fantastic circus world of wandering street acrobats and other bizarre characters dressed in doll-like make-up, spiky blonde wigs and tutus.

Student discount ticket rates and we’ll provide the bus transportation.
Contact Madeline Cantor at mcantor@brynmawr.edu.

We’re fully booked! Join us the next time.

This Spring, the Bryn Mawr College Dance Program is sponsoring a reconstruction of Psalm, a 1967 work by modern dance master José Limón (1908 – 1972). The work will be taught by, Ryoko Kudo, a dancer for nearly decade with the José Limón Dance Company and a reconstructor from the Limón Foundation. The Audition is Fri., Jan. 20 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm in Pem Studio. Rehearsals will be held over  three intensive weekend rehearsal periods (the times are approximate): Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 21 – 22 from 10 am to 4:30; Saturday, Jan. 28 from 11:00 am to 5 pm  and Sunday, Jan. 29 from 10:00 to 4:00; Friday Feb. 3 from 6:30 to 9:00 pm,  and Saturday, Feb. 4 from 11:00 am to 5:00, and on Sunday, Feb 3 from 9 am to 11:30 am. Dancers must be available for all rehearsals. Ongoing rehearsals will then take place on Mondays from 4:00 – 5:30. Full day rehearsals will have a lunch break.  Dancers must also be available for three nights during the week of April 16-28 for tech rehearsals and for the weekend performances.

For further information, contact Associate Director of the Dance Program, Madeline Cantor at mcantor@brynmawr.edu.

This is a rare opportunity to learn and perform a work from the historical modern dance repertory.  Psalm is a powerful ensemble work that weaves together belief and ritual. Limón’s choreography emphasizes the natural rhythms of fall and recovery and the use of breath and weight and offers an inspiring process of discovery for student dancers.
It was first choreographed by Limón in 1967 for his company and was then restaged by Limón Company director Carla Maxwell in 2002.

Dancers from the University of California at Santa Barbara in Psalm.
(Photo: Julie Lemberger)

JOHN JASPERSE COMPANY in residence at Bryn Mawr – A full week of events including master classes, a symposium on the contemporary performance of body and gender, and a premier of his latest dance work.
John Jasperse, one of the most important dance artists working today, is set to remount his groundbreaking Fort Blossom at Bryn Mawr this winter. Supported with funds from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance, Jasperse revisits the work, which reveals the body in all its facets as simultaneously special, even miraculous, and ordinary.

“When John Jasperse makes a new work it should be seen; end of story.” New York Times

PERFORMANCE:
JOHN JASPERSE COMPANY, FORT BLOSSOM REVISITED 2000/2012Friday – Sunday February 24-26
8 p.m. Friday, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall

Tri-co students, faculty, staff -Free
Discounted tickets for Seniors, Dance Pass, and other students
(Adult themes)

RESIDENCY EVENTS (Free and open to the public; reservations required where noted)
John Jasperse Company will take up residence at Bryn Mawr the week prior to the performances, creating opportunities for the public and students to engage with this articulate and controversial artist.

Symposium: The Contemporary Performance of Sex, Gender and Embodiment
Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, 1-5 p.m.
Panelists include: Dr. Ann Cooper Albright, Dr. Mark Broomfield, Gregory Holt, John Jasperse, RoseAnne Spradlin, moderated by Dr. Linda Caruso Haviland.

 Master Class
Monday, Feb. 20, 4:30–6 p.m.
Swarthmore College, Lang Performing Arts Center, Troy Dance Lab
For reservations call 610.957.6179

Open Rehearsal with Q&A
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, 2:15-3:45 p.m.
Bryn Mawr College, Hepburn Teaching Theater, Goodhart Hall
For information call 610-526-5210 or email aclarke@brynmawr.edu

 Visual Culture Colloquium
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012, 12:30-1:45 p.m.
Jasperse on “Transformations of the Audience/Performer Relationship”
Bryn Mawr College, Thomas Hall 224
(sponsored in part by the Center for Visual Culture)

 Master Class
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012, 4-5:30 p.m.
Bryn Mawr College, Pembroke Studio, reservations required.
Reservations required
Call 610-526-521 or email aclarke@brynmawr.edu

Thursday, February 16
6:30-8:00   Denbigh Studio, Bryn Mawr College
(space is limited, email lcarusoh@brynmawr.edu to register)

Ann Cooper Albright will lead the Thursday night Improv Class and other interested movers in an evening of that explores the state of mindfulness within the improvisatory moment or moments. Ann is a practicing Contact Improviser and author of several books of dance scholarship. She is a BMC alum and is presently a professor in dance at Oberlin.

“…the changing of the course of things and the riding of that course through its course are mindful and bodyful.  Rather than suppress any functions of mind, improvisation’s bodily mindfulness summons up a kind of hyperawareness of the relation between immediate action and overal shape, between that which is about to take place or is taking place and that which has and will take place…”  Susan Leigh Foster from Taken by Surprise: a dance improvisation reader, eds. Cooper Albright and Gere