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For Immediate Release
January 11, 2010

For more information, contact
Cherise Oakley
(585) 395-2754
coakley@brockport.edu

Kate Weare Company Depicts the Ties That Bind Men and Women

New York City-based Dancers Perform Three Concerts During College at Brockport Residency

Photo Credit: Kurt Perschke

Brockport, NY – 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, at 7:30 pm in the College’s Hartwell Dance Theater, Kenyon Street. The residency and performances are sponsored by the Student Dance Organization, in association with the Brockport Student Government.

Weare, who trained in California and England, is the recipient of the 2009 Princess Grace Award for choreography. Her background in martial arts also informs her dances, which often portray power struggles — both internalized and with others — that sometimes heads toward violence, playful and otherwise. “My work tends to be really direct and emotive and earnest,” she has admitted. Wry and occasionally erotic would be other ways to describe it, as well.

The company will present Bridge of Sighs, which was commissioned by the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 2008. The quartet is drawn from the images and history of various bridges, including one in Chicago over which workers would march toward the deathly environs of a slaughterhouse, and one in Venice from which convicts could wave their final farewells to their families before entering prison. About the Jacob’s Pillow performances, New York City’s Village Voice raved “Note to self: Try not to miss any performances by Kate Weare’s group… This is what I have been craving.”

Drop Down is a duet in which a man and woman negotiate proximity and erotic power. The movement language springs from the mechanics of tango, with its revolving central axis, knife-like leg action and quick changing rhythms. Rounding out the program are The Light Has Not the Arms to Carry Us, a triptych of short solo works, and a new piece, as yet untitled.

Tickets are $20 ($8 for students) and are available by phone at (585) 395-2487 or at the Brockport Student Government Box Office in the Seymour College Union, Residence Drive, Brockport. Tickets may also be available at the Box Office in Hartwell Hall one hour prior to each performance. ###

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