DANCE FACULTY CONCERT

Saturday, December 9, 8 PM in the Hepburn Teaching Theatre, Goodhart  with works by Melanie Cotton, Laurel Card, Rebecca Malcolm-Naib, Olive Prince, Joe Gonzalez and Katherine Kiefer Stark…click here for more info.

and. . . .

Lots of END-OF-SEMESTER STUDIO SHOWINGS!! 

Come see your friends, classmates, roommates in action!  PEM STUDIO

*Modern Ensemble/Olive Prince, choreographer   
Monday              December 11, 5 PM   
Beginning Ballet/Denise D’Angelo, instructor
Wednesday        December 13, 12:40
*Advanced Ballet/ Denise D’Angelo, instructor
Wednesday        December 13, 8:30PM
Ballet Ensemble/Felicia Cruz, choreographer
Thursday            December 14, 7:30PM
Dance Composition/David Brick, instructor 
Tuesday             December 19, 2:30
Senior Project in progress/ Izi Silverstein, choreographer 
Tuesday             December 19, 4:30
(*these works will be performed in the SPRING DANCE CONCERT in Goodhart on Fri/Sat April 27/28)

Class and ensemble showings run 10-20 minutes; Composition runs about 40-45 minutes.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9  at 8 PM                   
Hepburn Teaching Theatre in Goodhart
(through the glass lobby)
FREE and open to the public

The Bryn Mawr Dance Program faculty are among the best professional dancers and choreographers in a city known for its excellent dance scene.  Come see them perform in their own works.

Melanie Cotton, well known in the region for her hip hop innovations, and Latin dancer Laurel Card present a hip hop experiment that digs into the relationship between hip hop, Funk, African and Latin dance styles.

Questions about the Dance Program, Dance Courses for the Spring, Dance Major, Dance Minor???

On Wednesday, November 1, the Bryn Mawr Center for Visual Culture and the Dance Program sponsored a talk by eminent dance scholar, Dr. Mark Franko attended by faculty and students from the bi-co community as well as visitors to the campus.  The paper delivered, Can We Inhabit a Dance? Reflections on Dancing the ‘Bauhaus Dances’ in Dessau, focused on the original performances and subsequent reconstructions of Oskar Schlemmer’s late 1920s experimental “Bauhaus Dances” from the perspective of the spectator and the performer.  Anyone familiar with Dr. Franko’s work would not be surprised to find him, yet again, seamlessly blending the erudite and the experiential, and for those in the audience more conditioned to the still body reading at a lectern, what an informative surprise to see him intersperse his reading with dance gesture and vocalization.  His research for the paper drew on multiple disciplines—architectural and dance history, cultural studies, philosophy and more—but it also emerged from his own experiences dancing in Debra McCall’s 1994 reconstruction of the “Bauhaus Dances” that returned the performance of the work to its point of origin in a post-war restoration of Walter Gropius’s theatre for the Bauhaus in the east German city of Dessau just five years after the end of the Berlin Wall and reunification of Germany—restorations, reinhabitings, and reinventions on multiple levels.

So many questions were raised by Dr. Franko’s paper:  Can a dance reinhabit its originary space and, in a twist, what of the originary space remains in the dance/dancers performed/performing elsewhere; how do the dancers exhibit, dwell in, construct or influence the space and, how does the space press, summon, shape the dance/dancer; what is the relationship of all of this to the architecture of the Bauhaus building; what is the relationship of all of this to agency, particularly in those dances in which dancers are encased in a neutralizing costume that renders them readable as abstracted, marionette-like beings; and can the audience in its very presence or responses to  the dance/dancers also be conceptualized as space in its capacity to be a gestural shaper?  Given that these are just a few of the ideas explored and discussed, it is easy to imagine what an incredibly full and generative lecture this was. Our thanks to Mark Franko.

Join the Dance Program on Saturday, November 4 at 8pm to see the legendary Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Prince Theater in Philadelphia!

The company will perform three masterworks: Esplanade, set to Bach and showcasing vivid expressions of everyday movement; Company B, a dance evocation of the 1940s to the music of the Andrews Sisters; and Arden Court, a romantic and lyrical favorite.

It’s a chance to see landmark 20th century dance making and glorious dancing in an intimate theater where all the seats are good seats! Tickets are available at a group rate of $15 with FREE bus transportation included. Email your interest to Dance Program assistant Elizabeth Yost at evyost@brynmawr.edu ASAP!

You do dance, you see dance. . . Want to know more about the cultural, historical, social, political, or art-related dimensions of dance???  1. Come to our lectures    2. Take a dance lecture/seminar course   3. Check out these events at neighboring institutions! 

AT BRYN MAWR: Visual Culture Series – November 1, 2017
College Hall 224  12:30-2pm  (Good!) Refreshments served
Mark Franko Chair, Dance Department, Temple University
“Can We Inhabit a Dance? Reflections on Dancing the ‘Bauhaus Dances’ in Dessau”

Eminent dance historian, Mark Franko, will discuss the reconstruction of Oskar Schlemmer’s “Bauhaus Dances” from the perspective of the spectator and the performer and in relation to architectural space. Scenes from Debra McCall’s film of “Bauhaus Dances” will be projected as part of the talk.

Click  Temple or UARTS  for links to their schedules of really interesting lectures, demonstrations, or dialogues at Temple University or University of the Arts in Philly, ranging from the famous drag interpreter of Martha Graham, Richard Move, to the French Rwandan choreographer Dorothee Munyaneza, or from Katherine Dunham and the diaspora, to NYC performance practices.

Take advantage of the lively Philly dance scene through the Dance Program’s Dance TRIP (Ticket Reimbursement in Philadelphia) and Dance FLIP (Faculty Live in Performance) initiatives.  Dance TRIP provides support for seeing a dance performance, in any genre, in Philly.  Dance FLIP does the same for performances by your Dance faculty. BRING your receipt to the Dance Office in Goodhart to be reimbursed up to $10 per ticket. That can go far when student rush tickets for the pennsylvania Ballet and Annenberg Center performances are just $10. These programs are only open to those BI-CO students enrolled in a Dance class in this academic year.  Available until our yearly funds for the programs run out!

For More information, contact Professor Cantor, mcantor@brynmawr.edu