We have several exciting dance classes coming up in the Spring.  Please check out our course schedule available on our website.  Many of our repertory classes offer opportunities for performance in the Student Dance Concert in April.  More information is available on the LPAC Lobby Monitor or in the Dance Office located in the basement of the LPAC (004) or you can contact Susan Grossi, the Administrative Assistant for the Dance Program for more information at sgrossi1@swarthmore.edu or X2019.  Come dance with us!

Discovering the Dimensions of Flatness

The world is huge and, in a given moment, only a fraction of it is available to each of us. We organize our fractions into systems and patterns that we can process, that make sense to us. We make decisions about what is essential, and we allow ourselves to focus on those things. And sometimes, we have to limit our focus even more, to just the essential of the essential: a fraction of a fraction – reality flattened into a more manageable size. What does this “essential” look like when it is all we know?

FLATLAND 2010 is dance/theater company idiosynCrazy productions’ latest production. FLATLAND explores the difficulty of human communication in a world where the sound byte supersedes substance, the instant message overpowers the intimate one. This lecture/demonstration will allow the audience into the creation process of FLATLAND, exposing the process of movement invention and how that is linked to theatrical expression. FLATLAND is directed by Jumatatu Poe (Swarthmore professor and alum), with lighting design by Catherine Lee, and performances by Kristel Baldoz, Justin Bryant, Danielle Currica, Christine Gerena, Gregory Holt (Swarthmore alum), Maya Johnson, Shannon Murphy, Shavon Norris, Gabrielle Revlock, William Robinson, and Michele Tantoco. Movement designed by Poe and the performers.
Come get a sneak peek of this work and this creative process before the work has its official premiere at the Annenberg Center in Philadelphia on January 15, 2011.
Lecture/Demo Wednesday November 17 at 4:30PM in the LPAC Troy Dance Studio.  Please join us!

The Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College will present the Fall 2010 Student Dance Concert on Friday, December 3^rd, 2010 at 8PM  and Saturday, December 4^th, 2010 at 8PM in the Lang Performing Arts Center’s Pearson-Hall Theater.  The event will be free and open to the public without reservations.

The Dance Program of the Dept. of Music and Dance sends a warm invitation for the Fall Student Dance Concert.  This term’s concert will feature dances and music in a variety of styles and from various cultural traditions. West African, Brazilian, Ballet, Tap, and Taiko pieces will all be included.  Guest choreographer Meredith Rainey (former principal dance with Pennsylvania Ballet and current artistic director for his own company, Carbon Dance Theatre) has choreographed a new work for participants in the ballet repertory class. Senior Amelia Kidd will present two sections of a contemporary ballet that is part of her honors dance minor course work among many other exciting performances in the show.  Families with children are especially welcome to attend.

For further information about these events, you may also contact Tara Webb at 610-328-8260 or twebb1@swarthmore.edu.

Rachel Brooker ’99 will be featured in WINDOW ON THE WORK on Wednesday November 11 at 6PM in the LPAC Troy Dance Studio.

Rachel Brooker founded and directs Anima Dance, and is the site coordinator for The Field Berlin, a local branch of an international arts organization. anima dance, an eight-year-old dance theater company, is based in Berlin, Germany.  The company productions to date include The Artaud Project, My Patriot Act, a reflection on the condition of being American, Invitation and Body on the Body, interactive installations, ten evenings of original choreography and six dance films.

Brooker’s work has been funded by public and private donors in both sides of the Atlantic.  She has a degree in Dance and Biology from Swarthmore College, and has performed across the US and Europe, most recently collaborating with Felix Ruckert, Marc Bogaerts and Sabine Dahrendorf.

Rachel will also host a workshop in the LPAC Troy Dance Studio at 4:30PM on Thursday November 11.

We have several exciting dance classes coming up in the Spring.  Please check out our course schedule available on our website.  Many of our repertory classes offer opportunities for performance in the Student Dance Concert in April.  More information is available on the LPAC Lobby Monitor or in the Dance Office located in the basement of the LPAC (004) or you can contact Susan Grossi, the Administrative Assistant for the Dance Program for more information at sgrossi1@swarthmore.edu or X2019.  Come dance with us!