940dance company presents New Works Concert

When: Saturday, April 26, 2008, 7:30 p.m.

Where: Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H., Lawrence

Cost: $7.50 - $13

Age limit: All ages

Description: The 940 Dance Company will be performing their New Works Concert on Friday, April 25th and Saturday April 26th at 7:30 pm at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire. This concert will be the culmination of a creative, busy season for the new company under the direction of Susan Rieger. “This concert has humor, intelligence and courageous looks at many areas of life and the voices of five experienced choreographers” said Rieger. Tickets are $13 for adults and $7.50 for students and seniors.

On the evening program will be two new works by Rieger. Resilience, a new sextet, is performed to traditional Indonesian music. The original inspiration for this dance came from a sculpture of twelve headless figures at the Nelson-Atkins Museum by Maria Abakanowicz. Rieger also has choreographed an untitled duet for dancers Bobbi Foudree and Chris Dunn. It is the final section of Chair Suite. The dancers interact with a chair which represents limiting patterns in a relationship. They each struggle to leave the chair and dance freely with another person.

Three company members have also choreographed works for the evening concert. Non Edwards has choreographed a piece entitled Lifeboat, which spans the states of desperation, panic, disassociation and humor in an attempt to cope with the irony of living in the atomic age. Bobbi Foudree has choreographed Was Bleibt (What Remains), a quartet to the music of Tabula Rasa, where dancers interact in a removed, distant manner. Marisa MacKay presents, A Shift, a trio, which explores shifting spiritual paradigms, performed to a collage of popular music and soundscapes.

In addition to the new pieces, 940 will perform some company favorites, including the athletic, driving piece by guest choreographer Dan Stark, entitled Diplomacy and the joyful movement piece, Tomorrow, Greener Grass, choreographed by Rieger to the music of Tin Hat Trio.

For more information about the evening concert contact the Candi Baker at (785)843-2787 or email lacdance@sunflower.com

Event posted April 4, 2008
Last updated April 18, 2008

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