Choreography by Laura Dean and faculty Bill De Young,
Melissa Beck Matjias, Peter Sparling, and Robin Wilson
An important revival of a modern dance classic and new creations by faculty
University Dance Company
Members of the UM Percussion Ensemble
Power Center
Thursday, January 29 at 7:30 PM |
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Friday, January 30 at 8 PM |
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Saturday, January 31 at 8 PM |
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Sunday, February 1 at 2 PM |
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Overview
The University Dance Company presents Arcs in Time. Headlining the concert is the first revival in twenty-one years of Impact by contemporary American choreographer Laura Dean. Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times declared “Impact is terrific…dazzlingly intricate in its integration of patterns and original movement. There is a thoroughgoing richness in the entire work.” The UM Percussion Ensemble plays Steve Reich’s “Sextet,” which was written expressly for this high energy work. Faculty member Amy Chavasse, who danced in the 1985 premiere, will restage the dance. Melissa Beck Matjias creates a new work that is set to Schubert’s “Impromptu No.1 in c minor” and is played live by Christian Matjias. Door to the River, choreographed by Peter Sparling, features dancers set against a video backdrop of water surging over Ann Arbor’s Barton Dam during different seasons. A juxtaposition of human movement and the powerful forces of nature held in check by man-made restraints, the dance uses the sounds of the water as its musical score. Robin Wilson creates a new dance inspired by her work with Urban Bush Women and Dianne McIntyre that features dance improvisation, wordless vocalization, and live music to examine shifting emotional terrains through the vehicle of the human voice while the body is in motion. Rounding out the evening is a new work by faculty member Bill De Young.
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