Department of Dance
2009-2010 Concert Performances and Events

Tickets may be purchased at Tower Fine Arts Center Box Office. Box Office Hours: Mondays-Fridays from 9:30am-5 pm, Saturdays from 10am-4pm, or call (585) 395-ARTS. Credit card reservations and remaining tickets will be available at the Hartwell Box Office one hour prior to scheduled performance times.

All performances take place in Hartwell Dance Theater, unless otherwise noted. Hartwell Dance Theater features RESERVED seating for all performances; please arrive early to ensure being seated before the performance begins.

Gallim Dance

Wednesday – Friday, September 23 – 25 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall

The mission of Gallim Dance is to create, play inside the imagination, find juxtapositions of the mind and body that resonate in the soul, investigate our limitations and pleasures, and realize the endless human capacity for inspiration.

DANCE/Strasser

Tuesday – Thursday, October 13 – 15 at 7:30 pm
Thursday – Saturday, March 25 – 27 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall

More than any other concerts presented by the dance department, these showings of new student works involve the audience as a part of the creative process. The talkbacks that follow the concerts allow dance lovers to provide feedback, which can help the choreographers enrich their pieces.

DANCE/Hartwell

Thursday – Saturday, October 29 – 31 at 7:30 pm
Thursday – Saturday, March 4 – 6 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students

A striking evening that can feature rhythm tap, modern or ethnic dance, all drawn from the lives, experiences and inspirations of our incredibly talented faculty and students. The fall concert features MFA thesis choreography by Kathleen Diehl and Rebecca Sproul, while the spring concert features works by MFA candidates Madia Cooper and Leanne Rinelli.

New Dancers’ Showcase

Friday and Saturday, December 4 and 5 at 7:30 pm
Donations accepted at the door
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall

DANSCORE

Wednesday – Saturday, November 18 – 21 at 7:30 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students

DANSCORE features the choreography of the dance department faculty who have studied or performed with the world-renowned companies of Alvin Ailey, Robert Joffrey, José Limón and Merce Cunningham. Others have danced to great acclaim in their native lands. What they bring to their choreography, presented in these concerts, cannot be underestimated.

Dime-a-Dance

Wednesday and Thursday, December 9 and 10 at 7:30 pm
Wednesday and Thursday, May 5 and 6 at 7:30 pm
Donations accepted at the door
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall

Dance Awareness Days

Thursday – Saturday, February 18 – 20
The donations accepted at the door will aid with future availability and offering of this program.
Participants must be at least 16.
Hartwell dance studios, classrooms and Dance Theater

Kate Weare Company - Student Dance Organization Guest Artist

Thursday, February 4 - Saturday, February 6 at 7:30 pm
$20/$8 Students
Hartwell Dance Theater
Please note: Tickets are available by phone at (585) 395-2487
or at the Brockport Student Government Box Office in the Seymour College Union
This performance is not subject to subscription or any other promotional discounts.

With a raw point of view and a forthright honesty, Kate Weare creates vignettes of the eternal battle of the sexes. The choreographer is bringing her company of New York City-based dancers to The College at Brockport for a one-week residency that culminates in three performances on Thursday through Saturday, February 4 – 6, 2010 at 7:30 pm in the College’s Hartwell Dance Theater. The residency and performances are sponsored by the Student Dance Organization, in association with the Brockport Student Government.

Bill Evans 70!

Saturday, April 10 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 11 at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students
Rose L. Strasser Studio, Hartwell Hall

Evans has choreographed more than 200 works for professional modern dance, ballet and tap dance companies. He has performed internationally, and in all 50 states, both with and without his own professional dance company (which he has helmed for over 30 years and has recently re-established here in Rochester). On this 70th birthday milestone he ruminates, “When I perform, age becomes irrelevant. Only the moment matters.”

Sankofa African Dance and Drum Ensemble

Thursday – Saturday, April 22 – 24 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 25 at 2 pm
$12/$10 Seniors, Faculty and Staff/$8 Students

The unabashed joy of dance and the rhythm of drums combine in the occasionally Carnivale-esque atmosphere that is Sankofa. Artistic director Clyde Alafiju Morgan and musical director of Khalid N’Faly Saleem set out to bring a bit of African, Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian culture to Brockport and have created a phenomenon.

Graduation Dances

Friday, May 14 at 7:30 pm
Hartwell Dance Theater
Donations accepted at the door