Rochester’s repertory dance company will present a series of collaborative concerts at Geva in celebration of its 12th year.
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Brockport’s Danscore, marking 50 years, keeps its contemporary reach
The College at Brockport’s Department of Dance has a long history of hiring teachers who are professional artists with years of experience performing and choreographing modern dance. The department celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with its annual Danscore performances. According to the department interim chair James Hansen, the landscape for dance in higher learning […]
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MuCCC hosts robust contemporary dance program
Summer in Rochester usually offers audiences little in the way of dance. However, for the third summer in a row, the Multi-Use Community Cultural Center will host a contemporary dance festival. Dances at MuCCC 2016, a festival of contemporary dance, runs from Tuesday, June 21, through Saturday, June 25, and will pull from a wide […]
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Jane Comfort examines beauty pressures through dance
Award-winning contemporary dance organization Jane Comfort and Company will bring its provocative dance-theater show, “Beauty,” to the University of Rochester this weekend as part of the UR Program of Dance and Movement’s 6th annual inspireDANCE festival. “Beauty,” choreographed by Comfort, uses the American icon of a Barbie doll to examine the cultural pressures surrounding women’s […]
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Changing images of art
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik and Rochester City Ballet Artistic Director Jamey Leverett will both present interpretations of another’s art onstage this weekend. “Images: Musical Impressions of an Art Museum” is a suite of seven movements that Tyzik wrote based on seven pieces of art from the Memorial Art Gallery. Leverett choreographed […]
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Fast motions
Jessica Lang Dance, distinguished by Lang’s incorporation of striking visual elements into her pieces and her fusion of classical ballet vocabulary and contemporary dance, comes to Nazareth College Arts Center Saturday, March 7. The company debuted in the summer of 2012 at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the stomping grounds of highly-regarded dance. Within two years, […]
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Fabo Collabo 2013
In January 2012, several of Rochester’s leading dance groups came together to create a collaborative performance known as Fabo Collabo. Geomantics Dance Theater, the Bill Evans Dance Company, FuturPointe Dance, BIODANCE, and Push Physical Theatre shared the Geva Nextstage. Now, Fabo Collabo is back, but in a very different way. This year, it is more […]
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DANCE PREVIEW: “Arc of Ages”
PUSH Physical Theatre’s new masterwork, “Arc of Ages,” embraces epic stories of Western civilization and explores basic human archetypes by depicting the legendary struggles of biblical characters. Dramatic, action-packed interpretations of Samson, Delilah, David, Bathsheba, and Job connect audiences to these characters’ flawed humanness, and to the continued relevance of their plights today. “What do […]
