Summerdances '12
Destiny/Chance & Circumstance
May 31-June 2
Mainstage Theatre: 7:30PM
2400 E Kenwood Blvd
Pre-Show talks every night at 6:45PM
Reception on Friday after the show
Tickets:
$17 - general
$12 - seniors, UWM faculty, staff & alumni
$10 - student
Box Office:
414-229-4308
arts.uwm.edu/tickets
Impulsive Minors by Elizabeth Johnson
Impulsive Minors evolved from Johnson's choreographic exploration of impulsivity; the resultant dance formed by weaving together episodic, improvised and sometimes unrelated movement "moments" into longer phrases that grew in complexity and musicality to several Chopin’s minor key nocturnes. The quixotic, romantic fervor of the music juxtaposed with mercurial shifts of weight, direction, mood and attitude might look like a trip though the adolescent mind, thus the double entendre of the dance's title. What do you see?
Adroit by Gerald Casel
Music by Carsten Nicolai and Ben Frost
Sourcing from Seep, an existing piece for four dancers made in 2006, Gerald Casel explores structure and form to expand this new work for eight. In the new Adroit, Casel dismantles the formal elements of Seep and reworks the premise of its governing principles – the porous relationships between people in space. Adroit challenges these relationships by engaging the dancers to create movement through improvisation, defining what emerges and processing the new material into a re-imagined version of themselves.
Beginning with an improvised score as the audience enters the theater, the performers (de)construct a set, a mental structure and manipulate one another. These manipulations develop further to reveal the power struggle between human beings and exposes the tenderness lying beneath the protective walls we construct.
Undertow by Christina Briggs Winslow
Sound Design: Seth Warren-Crow with music by Henri Torgue and Serge Houppin
Undertow explores external forces stronger than oneself. In it, the dancers are drawn to the momentum of the group, especially when dancing alone, creating a chasm between the group's journey and the individual experience.
The Year of Unremarkable Laughter by Colleen Thomas
In The Year of Unremarkable Laughter, Colleen Thomas carves out ambiguity in the darkness and ponders time wasted. Performers simultaneously maneuver through urgency and rest, engaging with shadows both playful and longing - and with a heart-stirring physicality that rips from our memory the ache of someone special.
Bob’s Palace (2003) an excerpt of Somatophobia by Luc Vanier
Bob’s Palace has a special place in history as the first dance to ever use infrared motion capture live onstage linking to an avatar. The main theme centered on the instability of the connection between the motion capture and the animation. The quality of the interaction reminded me of the anxiety we all feel as human beings. For Summerdances, we are presenting the piece without technology but you can see a newly designed animation and interaction during our hour long Somatophobia presented at the 5th floor theater of the Kenilworth Building June 22-24.
Collaborators include Christine Barclay, newly graduated from the UWM Music Department in Composition and Voice, Steven Moses (Dance alumnus) a Milwaukee choreographer and dancer, digital interactive designer Dominic Amato, Your Mother Dances company members Jaimi Patterson and Sarah Bromann, (both Dance alumni) with designer Edward Winslow, and sculptor/dancer Marissa Waraksa.