Hampshire Dance Program Presents HAZE: The Heightened Liminal Sense
An evening of new dance works by eight student choreographers.
The Hampshire Dance Program will present HAZE: The Heightened Liminal Sense, an evening of new dance works by eight student choreographers. Performances will take place on Thursday, February 12 and Friday, Friday February 13 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hampshire College Music and Dance Building in the Main Dance Studio; doors open at 7.
The concert will feature dances by Div II choreographers: Zoey Carter-Bell, Johnny Clark, KC Johnson Erikson, Jeanette Gronemeyer, Ava Jett-Beachley, Josiah Looft, Simone Shieh, and Heath Suzor. The choreographers have engaged in extensive creative processes as a cohort in dialogue with one another, and their works engage a range of aesthetics, dance traditions, and subjects of inquiry.
Zoey Carter-Bell’s PRICE/PEACE grows out of her ongoing creative research around the meaning of family and home, with this iteration focusing on the stories of her paternal grandparents. Johnny Clark’s solo Loaded - Side Mission #1 strives to present pure authenticity. Clark vows, “no stunts, no gimmicks, no spite, no contradictions, no mockery, no smirking, no lies…” KC Johnson Erikson’s Wing’s Up works through film and live performance to introduce a winged figure at a pivotal moment where he faces the question, “what makes an angel truly alive?” Jeanette Gronemeyer’s work emphasizes the juxtaposition of experimental sound and movement utilizing an original composition that layers textures, field recordings, synthesizers, and pedal feedback.
Josiah Looft’s choreographic debut Spaces Between Walls investigates the movement that emerges from stillness, while also embodying “anger, pain, and hope.” Simone Shieh’s trio, inspired by the historical drama film Roma, “explores our memories and imagined consciences through the dreamlike, illusory nature of water.” Heath Suzor’s Life After Salem engages with Lil Nas X’s song of the same name. Suzor seeks to capture its “hauntingly beautiful instrumentals and vulnerable lyrics, while exploring its themes of endless cycles, relationships, emotional depletion and explosion.”
Tickets can be reserved with a suggested donation of $5-$20. Free tickets are available. Reserve tickets at https://hampdance.ludus.com/.
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