Dance Company to present 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking'
The Emory Dance Company will present its fall concert, Out of the Cradle
Endlessly Rocking, a collection of five works focusing on the inherent joy
of movement that our bodies possess at birth, at 8 p.m. Nov. 21-23, in the
Mary Gray Munroe Theater, Dobbs Center.
The Nov. 22 performance, a benefit concert presented by the Friends of Dance
at Emory, will benefit the Summer Scholarship Fund, created last year for
an Emory dance student to study during summer break with a national company
or educational organization. A reception provided by Starbucks and the St.
Louis Bread Company will follow the performance.
The program, featuring works choreographed by members of the Emory Dance
Program faculty, includes the following:
* Sheri Latham's Quantum Jump, a ballet for six dancers set to a vibrant
score by Snivilisation, takes energy bounced from dancer to dancer to create
a chain reaction effect.
* Anna Leo's septet titled Zebra Journals, with an original score by Atlanta
composer Klimchak, evokes the idea of community as dancers move through
space like a herd of young animals.
* Martha Edwards' Vinyl Tiara, also with original music by Klimchak, uses
images of cellular phones, electric brooms, silver trays and rose-colored
glasses to explore movement ranging from highly technical to pedestrian.
* Guest artist Judy Allen's Off the Walls is a slightly irreverent look
at paintings and art works of the great Renaissance masters set to a score
by Handel. Allen is chairperson of the dance department at California State
University in Long Beach and a nationally recognized expert in the field
of Labanotation.
* Scott Heinzerling, a dance faculty member at Loyola Marymount University
in Los Angeles, created DANCES during a one-week artist residency with the
Emory Dance Program last month. DANCES, performed to Bach's Goldberg Variations,
celebrates the joy of movement and the human spirit.
Tickets are $7 general admission for Nov. 21 and 23. Tickets for the Nov.
22 benefit concert are $10. For information, call the Emory Box Office at
727-6187. --Elaine Justice
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