Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5, 8:00 p.m.

BFA Senior Dance Concert

World premieres by emerging choreographers.

Loree Dance Theater

$15/$15/$10 (student price available during regular ticket office hours only, Monday through Saturday)

Thursday-Saturday, April 24-26, 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 27, 2 p.m.

DancePlus Spring

FORMATS I and V (Major Revival)

Choreography: Brenda Way

Reconstructed by: Jeff Friedman

Music: Randolph Coleman

FORMATS I and V are post-modern dances reconstructed for DancePlus from their original scores, created by Oberlin Conservatory of Music composer Randolph Coleman in the mid-1970s; choreographer Brenda Way translated Coleman's aleatoric musical scores into choreography. Reconstructed by dance professor Jeff Friedman, one of Way's former dancers, the FORMATS use pedestrian movement to accomplish next-to-impossible tasks, frequently resulting in absurdly humorous dance situations. Supporting this humor, costumes recall Oberlin College winters, including thermal underwear and hiking boots.

Lurch Beneath the Surface (World Premiere)

Choreography: Samuel Pott (Guest Choreographer)

Music: Erik Friedlander: improvisational cellist; "Rachel's" and "Esmerine" This contemporary ballet piece is created through the exploration of movement that is initiated from spaces within: within the physical boundaries of one's own body, within the space between two people, and within the stage space created by formations of groups of people. The dancers throw themselves and each other through space with a clear focus on the internal space within themselves as individuals and as a group. Samuel Pott has performed as a lead dancer with multiple ballet and contemporary dance companies including New Jersey’s American Repertory Ballet and the Oakland Ballet. He has appeared in works by renowned choreographers such as Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Marius Petipa and Twyla Tharp, and has created new roles with many choreographers working today.  A member of the New Jersey Arts Council Arts in Education roster of artists, Mr. Pott has taught and choreographed at the youth, high school, college and professional level.  He founded Nimbus Dance Works in 2005.  

THIS WILL HURT NOBODY (World Premiere)

Choreography: Christian von Howard

Original Music Score: Peter J. Saleh  

This new work is a visual feast of delicious movement. Using an ensemble of twelve dancers swirling through the space to the electric score of composer Peter J. Saleh's music that will be performed live, von Howard explores a pedestrian movement vernacular that expresses the simple, yet complex nature of the human spirit.     

Fuechtet Euch Nicht  (2007)

Choreographed and performed by Wallie Wolfgruber

Music: Kurt Weill

Wolfgruber's poise and grace as a dancer and her boldness as a choreographer produce an emotional and sensual dance.

Ghost Trees (World Premiere)

Choreography & set by John Evans

Music by: Michael Nyman, Michael Galasso 

Ghost Trees is a duet shrouded in the darkness of the forest. Creatures mythical or real, live and die watched by the ghost trees perpetually standing sentinel.  With music by Michael Nyman and Michael Galasso, at times light and airy, at times driving and powerful, the dancers travel through a cycle of their life.

the heart is a lonely hunter (World Premiere)

Choreography: Randy James

Music: Philip Glass, Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson, Techno

This new work will mesmerize and excite audiences with the cascade of 18 dancers and their sheer physicality. A hauntingly beautiful, emotionally charged undertone pervades as the dancers literally leave the darkness and come into the light.

New Theater

Price Key:

General Public/Rutgers alumni and employees and Seniors /Students

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