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From Ballet to Bollywood: Dance Concert Nov. 29-Dec. 1 Has All the Right Moves
Story posted November 15, 2007
The Department of Theater and Dance will present the annual Fall Dance Concert (formerly the December Dance Concert) on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 29, November 30, and December 1, 2007, at 8 p.m. in Pickard Theater, Memorial Hall.
The performance is free and open to the public. General admission tickets are available at the David Saul Smith Union information desk, at 207-725-3375, and at the door.
Faculty-directed dances will rocket into a tour of the intergalactic bar scene; shake the dust off of 1950s-era domesticity; and answer Martha Graham's adage about truth in movement by staging a multitude of lies to the music of Taj Mahal, Sidney Bechet, and Fats Waller.
Student creations range from a Bollywood extravaganza to the riveting body rhythms of Bowdoin's Unity Step Team, and from precision jazz to the driving sounds and sight of Japanese Taiko drumming. The student ballet club, Arabesque, will push back against tradition with their "Revenge of the Sugar Plum Fairies," while the sister team of Megan ('09) and Caitlin ('11) McCarty spin off a smooth tap duet to Del Amitri's "Roll to Me."
Students in June Vail's Cultural Choreographies course will perform figures and patterns of village English Border Morris dance, which dates back to the 17th century. Flying across time and space, the student group Intersection will enact an Afro-Columbian folk dance complete with live drumming and singing.
The Fall Dance Concert is produced with assistance from the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the Friends of Bowdoin Fund.
A closing night reception will be held in Drake Lobby on Saturday, December 1, after the performance.