Release date: Oct. 20, 2004
Contact: Sally Corbett, Asst. Director for Marketing and Public Relations, Performing Arts,
at 404-727-6678 or sacorbe@emory.edu

Emory Dance Events Scheduled in November

WHO: Emory Dance Company will perform choreography by Tara Lee, principal dancer with the Atlanta Ballet; Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder of Urban Bush Women; Gregory Cattelier; Susan Eldridge and Suyenne Mulatinho Simoes.

WHAT: Emory Dance Company Fall Concert: "The Bigness of Small: Contemporary Dance Works that Open the Mind"

WHEN: 8 p.m. Nov. 18-20, 2 p.m. Nov. 20. The Nov. 19 performance benefits the Emory Friends of Dance Scholarship Fund and will be followed by a reception.

WHERE: Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, 1700 N. Decatur Rd., Emory.

COST: $8 for the general public; $6 for Emory faculty, staff, alumni and students with I.D., professional artists, patrons over 65 and under 18, Friends of the Arts at Emory and other discount groups. Call 404-727-5050 for more information.

The Emory Dance Company Fall Concert, "The Bigness of Small: Contemporary Dance Works that Open the Mind," will feature choreography by the founder of New York's Urban Bush Women, a principal dancer with the Atlanta Ballet, two Atlanta-based choreographers and an Emory faculty member. Performances will be Nov. 18-20 in the Dance Studio of Emory's Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. For tickets, call 404-727-5050 or go to www.arts.emory.edu.

The program includes work by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, founder and director of Urban Bush Women; Tara Lee, principal dancer with the Atlanta Ballet; Atlanta-based choreographers Susan Eldridge and Suyenne Mulatinho Simoes; and Gregory Catellier, Emory faculty member and lighting designer for the concert.

Zollar, along with company member and assistant Maria Bauman, recently completed a month-long residency in the Emory Dance Program as 2004 Emory Coca-Cola Artists-In-Residence. Their residency included teaching advanced technique and staging a work for members of the Emory Dance Company. "Are We Democracy?ÉWe The People" was tailored to 11 dance students.

"I create from a collaborative process with who is in the room," says Zollar about the piece. "The dancers, composer and Lori Teague all have a voice in this work. The dancers' thoughts, movements and feelings are reflected in the choreography." Teague is the Emory faculty member directing rehearsals of the piece. Klimchak, accompanist and composer for the Emory Dance Program, created and will perform an original score.

The work by Tara Lee is a contemporary ballet piece for eight dancers to the music of Arvo Part. The only current company member at the Atlanta Ballet who has created works for the ballet repertoire, Lee is making her Emory choreographic debut. The young choreographer's interest lies in "taking the form and clarity of classical ballet technique and blending it with the quality and soul of contemporary movement." The work is inspired by Part's music and presents images of women as strong and grounded as well as ethereal and angelic.

Atlanta-based choreographers Suyenne Mulatinho Simoes and Susan Eldridge have a history with Emory dance as guest teachers and artists in the past. Simoes' work, "200g = 7.05 oz," for seven performers reflects "the sentiment of people who migrate." Eldridge's piece also will include new music by Klimchak.

"I like to choreograph works that are related to or reflections of real life. I have taken this choreographic opportunity as a chance to see that the simplest moments of our everyday lives co-exist with and create life's vast greatness," says Eldridge.

Faculty member Catellier presents "Take Off," a work premiered by Atlanta dancers in September's faculty concert. The November return of "Take Off" features the honors students who inspired its creation, Rosanne Benavente and Lillian Ransijn. Set to music by the Accordion Tribe and Radiohead, the work "investigates the identity, friendship and competitive nature of relationships."

Performances will be Nov. 18-20 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 20 at 2 p.m. in the Dance Studio, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, 1700 N. Decatur Road on the Emory campus. For tickets, information and directions, visit www.arts.emory.edu or call 404-727-5050. General admission tickets are $8 for the public; and $6 for Emory faculty, staff, alumni and students with I.D., professional artists, patrons over 65 and under 18, Friends of the Arts members at Emory and other discount groups.

"Emory Art in Unexpected Places: New Works by Lori Teague" Outdoor Premiere Precedes Dance Concert

In conjunction with the Fall Dance Concert and the Emory Art in Unexpected Places Series, Emory dance faculty member Lori Teague will present two outdoor performances as well as a video of new work. Created at several sites on the Emory campus, the short pieces feature 10 dancers and will premiere the week preceding the concert.

"I find myself drawn to the storytelling of a place or an environment," says Teague. "Each work will reveal a story through the juxtaposition of bodies, the way the movers frame the space or the way the dancers add something to the space."

The performances are free and open to the public. For specific dates, times and locations, e-mail schwartzcenter@emory.edu.

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