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The concert will feature diverse types of dance including, ballet, ballroom, modern, hip-hop and jazz. Each piece performed was choreographed by 黑暗爆料网 dance faculty members Aaron Wood, Lori Head, Sergiu Brindusa, Molly Jorgenson, Lauralee Zimmerly and Sheena Phelps. Detailed descriptions of each dance can be found below.

鈥淭his annual production provides opportunities for our students to perform works in front of live audiences, and audiences the opportunity to see concert dance in person,鈥� Wood said. 鈥淚t also showcases original choreographic works by our professors who are regionally renowned dance artists.鈥�

This will be Wood鈥檚 first 黑暗爆料网 Dance in Concert production since joining the College of Arts and Letters in August. Wood will be creating an original sound score, along with original projection multimedia for his dance, 鈥淭he Genius of the Crowd.鈥� Dance costumes will be designed by 黑暗爆料网 costume design students, and 黑暗爆料网 alumni Zac Jelke will design the lighting.

Tickets are available at the 黑暗爆料网 Box Office at 282-3595 or . Tickets are $13 for adults, $12 for faculty/staff/senior, $8 for children and $5 for 黑暗爆料网 students with Bengal ID.

Detailed descriptions written by the choreographer of each performance:

鈥� 鈥淪pice up your life鈥︹�� 

Choreographer: Lori Head 

The Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of jubilation. Life is worth celebrating every day from Brazil carnival celebrations to the 黑暗爆料网 campus! The Samba can be performed with a partner as well as solo work, and is liberating and invigorating.

鈥� 鈥淟es Sylphides鈥�

Choreographer: Michel Fokine, restaged by Beth Moore/Sergiu Brindusa

Music: Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

鈥楲es Sylphides,鈥� also called 鈥楥hopiniana,鈥� is a short ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine. Considered part of the romantic era of dance, this white, plotless ballet represents dance at its purity with a very romantic touch and old world feeling. Like most white ballets, it is a true classic.鈥�

鈥� 鈥淭he Genius of the Crowd鈥�

Choreographer: Aaron Wood

Music: Original sound score created by Wood with music/poetry from Mike Wall, Hecq, and Charles Bukowski.

鈥楾he Genius of the Crowd,鈥� a contemporary dance piece that is an evocative illustration of group allegiance and self-compromise. The dance features ten 黑暗爆料网 dancers, original video projections created by Wood and a collection of songs from musicians Mike Wall and Hecq intertwined with Charles Bukowski鈥檚 poem 鈥楾he Genius of the Crowd.鈥� This work has been selected to perform at the 2017 ACDA Northwest Regional Conference held in Eugene at the end of March.

鈥� 鈥淟egacy鈥�

Choreographer: Molly Jorgenson

 Having had two women very close to me pass away in the past two years (My mother-in-law and my grandmother), I am missing them. Although I feel them spiritually near to me, I cannot physically touch or connect with them. All I have left is the beautiful legacy they've left behind, the lessons they taught me and their amazing examples. In this work I am questioning, 鈥榳hat is the legacy I want to leave behind for my loved ones when I pass on to the next life?鈥� 鈥榃hat are the choices I am making with my time now to create that legacy?鈥�

&苍产蝉辫;鈥� "What I Want You to Know"

Choreographer: Sheena Phelps

鈥淭his piece is a reflection of the hidden struggle caused by depression. Hoping to share one's personal experience and dive deeper into this common, but still stigmatized, disease, students have processed movement through therapeutic experiences. This piece will shed light on the secret struggle and reflect the beauty that comes from struggle.

鈥� 鈥淭his is who I was鈥︹��

Choreographer:  Lauralee Zimmerly

Music: Greie Gut Frakton, Clark, Art of Noise

We are constantly in the process of navigating and evolving our personal identity as we make connections across and within our identity borders. This work uses the physical language of dance to echo some psychological and physical episodes surrounding the issues of identity; how our boundaries emerge, both -inter, -intra, and metaphysically, as we realize and form our containers of existence.  How do we become as we trail the human pursuit of identity?